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GREAT PERFORMANCES: "PAUL MCCARTNEY'S LIVE KISSES"
September 13, 2013  | By David Bianculli  | 2 comments

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

 

Let’s all get up and dance to a song that was a hit before your mother was born: Tonight PBS repeats last year’s intimate, charming little special in which Paul McCartney (with some help from Diana Krall) works through a repertoire of pop standards, including “Bye Bye Blackbird” – for him, a different kind of “Blackbird” song, but just as pleasant a listening experience. Oh, and if you’re wondering about the full title of his resultant album of standards, Kisses on the Bottom, it’s a quote from a line in “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Right Myself a Letter,” and the kisses on the bottom, in this case, refer to the “XOXO” signoff at the end of the page. Check local listings.

 
 
 
 
 
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Charles Woo
You could still be middle aged and have a mother who was born before 1926. If you're 53 now and if your mother was 35 when she gave birth she would have been born in 1925.
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Terry Sullivan
"Let’s all get up and dance to a song that was a hit before your mother was born:"

Speak for yourself, kid. Bye, Bye Blackbird was a hit sixteen years AFTER my mother was born (in 1910). Not all of your readers are young or middle-aged.
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