Jay, who has lived in the Waukesha area for nearly 20 years, is an active volunteer who serves on numerous local boards and committees. He’s married to Colleen with three kids having gone through the Waukesha schools. He is the VP of a local distribution company and currently serves on several area Boards.
Argue if you must, but “A Hard Day’s Night” is one of the tightest, most-energizing 2 minutes and 29 seconds of music ever produced.
From George Harrison’s opening powerchord (and the subliminal piano notes “D2, G2, and D3)…pause… to the surge of concise McCartney-Lennon lyrics, this song gives and has more energy than any 100 songs you might hear in a week. Extremely compact, the song just reaches out and grabs you with the simplistic lyrics:
It's been a hard day's night
And I've been working like a dog
It's been a hard day's night
I should be sleeping like a log
But when I get home to you
I find the things that you do
Will make me feel all right
Face it, 43 years later, this song pulls us back to less complicated times. And yet (and this is the “magic”), a feeling of success, of completion, of relief, of expectation, even a feeling of exultation all accompany this song every time it hits the airwaves. …Writers, artists, and recording engineer all perfectly synched, and we now savor the results for decades…
Life is good…
