18th
The Beatles - Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand
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At first, I was debating what song to put up today. But then I realized: this week has been a Third Eye Blind and Beatles week at the office, and this blog should reflect that.
This song made me laugh out loud in the office today for way too many reasons. The girl who works near me (Adele) looked at me as if I was crazy, but I didn’t care. I was into the German Beatles. As you should be right now, too.
First, this was hilarious because I never knew that The Beatles performed songs in German, let alone recorded them.
Second, it reminded me of a Beach Boys record I bought the first time I was in Chicago — The Beach Boys’ 40 Greatest Hits! It was a German import and, while the songs were all “normal”, the packaging was entirely in German!
Third, after hearing this song watching a repeat of an old Ed Sullivan Show episode with my Mother one night, a few weeks before camp, I was often found requesting I Want To Hold Your Hand at our camp socials, trying to dedicate it to my girlfriend at the time (yes, I was 10).
They never played it. I guess my music taste had to regress into Top 40/Bubblegum before it got back up to my 10-year-old self’s standards.
