Other Voices, Part 8 (continued)

As I said in yesterday's post, Love's The Red Telephone was referenced in The Bonzo Dog Band's song, We Are Normal.  Listen to the song on Youtube at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZXI9RJSgok .  The relevant lyrics are:

          Well, it's ah, it's not for me to deter really, is it?
          I mean, it's for a psychiatrist to deter these things, isn't it?
                       -   -   -   -
          I don't know, it's just not like normal people do.
          You're not running around in your underpants, are you?  [See Lime Street lyrics below.]
                        -   -   -   -
          We are normal                        [Referencing The
          And we want our freedom.      Red
          We are normal                         Telephone
          And we want our freedom.      lyrics]

In my post, Other Voices, Part 7, I talked about the backmasked references to Paul in Procol Harum's single of May, 1967, A Whiter Shade of Pale.  The flipside of the single had a song called Lime Street Blues.  Listen to the song at:  http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUqaieKiELc
Here are the lyrics:
     Lime Street in the afternoon.
     I'm running around in my underpants [The lyrics of We Are Normal, in the first person]
     Trying to find some kinda romance.

     Quarter past three on Lime Street.
     I got whipped right offa my feet.
     Didn't realized that I'd been caught
     'Til I found myself in the county court.

     'Mr. Judge,' I said, 'Won't you please be kind?
     Have pity on me, a poor orphan child?'
     'Orphan or not, you're going down!'

     Well, I screamed on my knees in the witness box,
     'Lord have mercy on my golden locks.'
     The judge, I could see that he was snide.
     He says, 'The only kind of blonde you are's a peroxide!'

     Oh Lime Street, Lime Street
     Lime Street, that's where we meet.

I think the three songs were about Paul, with definite hints about Paul's background, what he may have been accused of, and what was done to him.

My next post will be about what can be pieced together about OUR Paul.  He wasn't Paul McCartney and he's not the man calling himself Paul McCartney today.       ---paulumbo

Other Voices, Part 8: The American Voice, The Bonzo Dog Band and Procol Harum

Love was an American psychedelic band of the 1960's who had what is now considered a classic album called Forever Changes, recorded from June - September, 1967 and released in November, 1967.  One track on the album is called The Red Telephone.  What got me interested in the song is the fact that The Bonzo Dog Band mocked the song in their album, The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse.  (See my March 28, 2012 post for a discussion of a backmasked reference to Paul in that album's track, Trouser Press.)

Before I get to the song, I tried to track down what significance there was in the song's title.  I found that there were red telephone boxes in England in 1966--the "K6" (Kiosk #6.)  And I found that red telephones existed in England as far back as 1937.  The "Type 706" telephone was available from 1959.  There's a nice British Pathe film that shows Queen Elizabeth introducing the phone to the English public, if you're interested.  I assume Arthur Lee of Love who wrote the song heard something, but I couldn't track it down any further.

The song itself talks about a man trapped in an apparent mental institution, about the man being hypnotized and "medicated" and losing track of time.  Listen to the track on Youtube at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRILyCLHXDE .  Some of the significant forward lyrics are:
         
          Sitting on a hillside  [Fool on the Hill?]
          Watching all the people die. 
          I'll feel much better on the other side;
          I'll hitch a ride.  [If you know the Beatle songs, there are many references to Paul
                                      asking for wheels (a car), asking for a "jam jar"  (English rhyming slang
                                      for a motor car, etc.]
                           - - - -
          And if you want to count me
          Count me out.  [ In the Beatles' 1967 Christmas record (which has the jam jar reference), there
                                     are several times when Ringo sings O-U-T spells OUT.]

                           - - - -
          They're locking them up today.
          They're throwing away the key.
          I wonder who it will be tomorrow
          You or me?

                           - - - -

          We are normal
          And we want our freedom.
          We are normal
          And we want our freedom.
The entire song, sung and spoken, is done in an English accent.

Reversed, you can here "Let me out" sung three times beginning at 1:28.

                                            ---references in The Bonzo Dog band song and the Procol Harum song
                                                tomorrow.             paulumbo

Other Voices, Part 7: A Whiter Shade of Pale

This post was going to be about the only American song I found with what I believe are reversed (and forward) references to our Paul.  The song is the American group Love's The Red Telephone and I'll get to that song in the next post.

I have been reading the 2010 book, Beatlemania! The Real Story of The Beatles UK Tour 1963-1965 by Martin Creasy.  Of course, it is not the real story because it fails to mention that both the real Paul and John were replaced in late 1963 (by our Paul and John), but I did find several interesting bits of information that I'll comment on in future posts.

Creasy talks about the other singers and musicians that toured with The Beatles.  One group was The Paramounts.  The Paramounts toured with The Beatles on their sixth and final UK tour, December 3-December 12, 1965.  In 1966 (or 1967 depending on the source) Gary Brooker of the group founded another group, Procol Harum with his friend Keith Reid.  The group's first single, A Whiter Shade of Pale was released on May 12, 1967, and it has several pointed backmasked references to Paul.

The reversed references:

0:06-0:09 - Paulie was
0:36-0:41 - Everybody heard I was hurt
0:55-0:57 - Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
0:58-1:01 - Paulie was
1:17-1:18 - A Beatle
2:20-2:24 - Everybody heard I was hurt
2:41-2:45 - Paulie was I

The evidence I've found on consistent and widespread backmasking by British groups shows that The Beatles were not carrying on a hoax commenting on serious problems in Paul's life, and--because the references are so widespread over many British groups--there was alot of knowledge out there in bits and pieces and a large cover-up that is still going on.  The truth needs to be told.

Other Voices, Part 6: American Voices?

I have been looking into backmasked references to Paul in American songs and--so far--I have found only one definite reference and one possible one.  (More on those in the next post.)

It's interesting that the fate of our Paul was a hot topic for discussion from the British groups but  not the American groups, but I'm speculating that the British groups were more worried about their personal situations vis-a-vis the English government.