But who influenced Greg, and who influenced his influences? That was the point of my earlier post where we would be hard pressed to quantify the Beatle's scope of influence. Odds are that we have all been influenced by Ringo in one way or another.

Here is yet another award the Fab 4 wins,

"The Beatles: The Night That Changed America," the CBS special that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show," received six Emmy Awards nominations Thursday morning.

The special, produced by CBS and AEG Ehrlich Ventures, is up for Outstanding Variety Special and in the categories of direction (Gregg Gelfand), music direction (Don Was), writing (Ken Ehrlich, David Wild), lighting design and sound mixing.

Ringo Starr Looks Back On 'A Hard Day's Night': 'It Was Mad, But It Was Incredible'

In the composing world, John Lunn will attempt to win his third consecutive award for "Downton Abbey," the opening number of the Tony Awards is angling for a hat trick and T Bone Burnett has received his first Emmy nomination.

Lunn and Burnett, who wrote for HBO's "True Detective," are up for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special along with Jeff Beal (his second nomination for "House of Cards"), Ramin Djawadi ("Game of Thrones") and first-time nominee Alan Silvestri ("Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey").

David Arnold and Michael Price, nominated twice before for their work on PBS's "Sherlock," are up again for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special, this year for "Sherlock: His Last Vow." "Downton Abbey" composer Lunn is in contention with "The White Queen," along with James Levine ("American Horror Story"), Ludovic Bource ("Clear History"), Jeff Russo ("Fargo") and Rob Mathes for "Herblock: The Back and White."

Tom Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda are nominated for this year's Tony Awards opener and will go up against the "Saturday Night Live" team responsible for "(Do It On My) Twin Bed") - Eli Brueggemann, Chris Kelly, Sarah Schneider, Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon - Bob Christanson and Alisa Hauser ("A Christmas Carol - The Concert"), Joshua Funk and Rebecca Drysdale ("Key & Peele"), John William Kavanagh, Craig Gerber ("Sofia the First: The Floating Palace") and Bob Thiele, Noah Gundersen and Kurt Sutter ("Sons of Anarchy").

Besides Was, who is also the president of Blue Note Records, music direction nominees include William Ross who is up twice, for "Barbra Streisand: Back to Brooklyn" and "The Oscars." Their competiton is Davice Chase ("The Sound of Music Live!"), Lenny Pickett, Leon Pendarvis and Eli Bruggemann ("Saturday Night Live") and Elliot Lawrence and Jamie Lawrence ("The 67th Annual Tony Awards)."

"The Voice" was the only music competition to earn nominations, picking up three: realiuty competition series, makeup and picture editing. NBC's "The Sound of Music Live!" received a nomination in the Special Class Program; it is the only scripted show among the nominees.

Dennis Wilson didn't even play on any of the BB hits right up through Pet Sounds - it was Hal Blaine of the Wrecking Crew .

DOH Silly Me.... I think I must have accidently clicked the Dennis box..:confused:

Cheers

Here is a good one of you've not seen it !?

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVUBpzlELOg"]Behind The Sounds: God Only Knows Part 1 - YouTube[/ame]

Figures the guy from Tennessee mentions Elvis....LOL.

Michael Jackson was/is also a world-wide sensation that created the most famous dance move since the twist, and spurred a couple generations of kids, white/black/Hispanic/and any other race that you can think of, spinning around like tops on cardboard. I witness to this day younger (some not so young.....) kids on my crew having a "worm" or "caterpillar" contest in hotel parking lots. It is ridiculous, but funny as hell, and Michael Jackson started it back in the 80's, and most of these kids weren't even alive to see it originally...... This is definitely influence, and transcending all barriers in my opinion.

If MJ and the Beatles both were all present and accounted for today, it would be interesting to see who sells out quicker, because neither would have an empty seat in ANY arena.

Very good point. That's what happens when I type out a quick response on an iPhone. :-)

I do find it interesting that the vast majority of "stadium" acts have been English. In America, most of the current stadium acts are contemporary country. I also find it interesting that the acts that can fill stadiums are generally the ones that invest in and value live event production, and the English have always been on the bleeding edge of that.

Back to the poll, perhaps we should consider which drummer had a bigger impact on their own band?

Definitely Ringo..From 6 to 8 I wore those albums out, especially Abby Road.

Then I discovered Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and for next 10 years I studied Bonham, Mitch Mitchell and Bill Ward...

Ringo was the perfect starter for a 6 year old beginner...

The Wrecking Crew

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On this date in WC history:

July 18

1966- "Wouldn't It Be Nice" by the Beach Boys was released on Capitol Records. It is the opening track on the 1966 album Pet Sounds and one of the most widely recognized songs by the American rock band the Beach Boys. It was composed and produced by Brian Wilson, with words largely by Tony Asher; Mike Love having a hand in the coda's vocal arrangement and lyric. It was released as a single two months after the album's release.

The instrumental track was recorded at Gold Star Studios on January 22nd, 1966, backed by the members of the WC The session was engineered by Larry Levine and produced by Brian Wilson. It took 21 takes of recording the instrumental track before Brian Wilson decided that it was good enough to be the master take.

It entered the Billboard chart on July 30 and remained there for 11 weeks, peaking at number 8 in September 1966. The single also peaked at number 7 on the Cashbox chart and #5 in Record World.

The B-Side was "God Only Knows"

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I didnt leave out meet , that was their first american album, the first one that matters,, and beatles 65 was a comp capitol made and the rest were soundtracks and comps.. I know their discography/ i know how capitol "created" beatles albums from odds&ends.