As we continue our Beatles video series I have a little story behind the song, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.
One night when I was working at Pascal's here in Greenwood, the other chef, the dishwasher, and myself challenged everyone working that night. The challenge was to listen to one song for the entire night. We started out with Meat Loaf's Paradise by the Dashboard Lights, but that song was waaay too long for this challenge. We wanted to have a song that was short, catchy, and super annoying. Luckily we had a copy of the Beatles' White Album and came across this little gem. That night, we listened to this song for 4 hours. Let's do some math really quick...the song is roughly 3 minutes long...60 minutes in an hour...4 hours total time...that means we listened to this song 80 times. 80 TIMES!?!?! Needless to say I knew the words like the back of my hand.
How many times can you listen to it? Let me know how you do.
What a great song! I listened for one hour. :) I took a small break to listen to Paradise by the dashboard lights and didn't even make it through the whole song before going back to this one. Thanks for an upbeat afternoon after lunch.
ReplyDeletei love that you incorporated math into your musical monday. and only special people can listen to a song 80 times.
ReplyDeleteI think we should work the opening riff into one of our Sunday morning sets. Sweet!
ReplyDeleteQuite upbeat and fun! I made it through once. But I'm weird when it comes to music...its a rare song that I actually want to listen to more than once at a time.
ReplyDeleteThe whole family has been singing parts of the song all week. It's been hilarious!
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