This is a band I never really cared for, although they're not really bad. It's mainly that I hate "Stairway To Heaven." Not only is it overrated, but it's one of the songs, along with "Freebird," that reminds me of all those boring, brain-dead, black-concert-tee-shirt-wearing, potheads of my teenage years. They kind of represent suburbia, rather than Rock'n'Roll. That said, I can appreciate some of their stuff, and I even have "Fool In The Rain" in my MP3 folder. My Brother and Sister are always trying to sell Led Zeppelin to me. And they're right, it's good stuff, but I'm just not into it. Ah, the ironically short-lived Zombies.
Peter Tork died today. They're also #'s 31 and 191 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Oddly, this is only their second album, after the 1965 debut album that included their early hits "She's Not There" and "Tell Her No". Nothing in-between.
Yeah, I saw that on my app after work. He was a year younger than my Mother. RIP, Pete. I know. We're talking personal prejudice here. Good. I don't like fast Zombies.
_______ 55 Years Ago This Week February 25 was also George Harrison's 21st birthday. Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week: Leaving the chart: "As Usual," Brenda Lee (11 weeks) "Daisy Petal Pickin'," Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs (11 weeks) "Louie Louie," The Kingsmen (16 weeks) "Popsicles and Icicles," The Murmaids (14 weeks) New on the chart: "The Way You Do the Things You Do," The Temptations (#11 US; #1 R&B) "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)," Betty Everett (#6 US; #1 R&B) "Don't Let the Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)," The Serendipity Singers (#6 US; #2 AC) New on the novelty record front: "The Boy with the Beatle Hair," The Swans (#85 US) And new on the boob toob--The previously recorded third consecutive appearance of the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show aired on Sunday, Feb. 23: _______ You're gonna make me regret reviewing this album, aren't you? _______ ETA: Just saw a commercial on Me that they'll be playing two episodes of The Monkees on Sunday in memory of Peter Tork. Didn't know that they had the show these days.
I'll comment on the music tomorrow. My Cousin is sleeping it off on the couch in the next room. I hope not. Interesting, and nice. I'll try to catch them if I can.
_______ 50 Years Ago This Week Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week: Leaving the chart: "If I Can Dream," Elvis Presley (13 weeks) "Soulful Strut," Young-Holt Unlimited (13 weeks) "Stand by Your Man," Tammy Wynette (16 weeks) "(There's Gonna Be a) Showdown," Archie Bell & The Drells (11 weeks) New on the chart: "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'," Crazy Elephant (#12 US; #12 UK) "Rock Me," Steppenwolf (#10 US) "Galveston," Glen Campbell (#4 US; #1 AC; #1 Country; #14 UK) "Only the Strong Survive," Jerry Butler (#4 US; #1 R&B) "You've Made Me So Very Happy," Blood, Sweat & Tears (#2 US; #18 AC; #46 R&B; #35 UK) And new on the boob tube: The Ed Sullivan Show, Season 21, episode 19, featuring The 5th Dimension, Dickie Henderson, Herschel Bernardi, and Myron Cohen Mission: Impossible, "Live Bait" The Avengers, "Stay Tuned" Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Season 2, episode 21 The Mod Squad, "A Reign of Guns" Ironside, "Moonlight Means Money" Star Trek, "The Cloud Minders" Adam-12, "Log 102: We Can't Just Walk Away from It" Get Smart, "Shock It to Me" Hogan's Heroes, "The Witness" _______ Earbuds, dude! 5 p.m. EST, and both are Peter-centric episodes: "One Man Shy" and "The Devil and Peter Tork". I wonder if they were saving The Monkees for the Summer of Me or something.
Really nice song. Stealth brilliance in those lyrics. Good song, good advice, and it sounds like the 50s. Holy crap, that's like a recovered memory from a hypnosis session. I'm remembering my Mother singing this to me when I was a kid. Somebody should do a compilation album of all the songs about the Beatle's hair. Cool, catchy song. That's the happy 60s. This is pretty good. Steppenwolf was a decent band. Great song, possibly his best. "Thank you for the words of wisdom, Mrs Darwin." Another great song from a great band. I've never really needed them, although now that I think of it I probably could have found the ones from my old MP3 player. That would be nice. It's definitely a Summer kind of show.
I've never been that mush of a fan, and I do not give them the overused credit for being some revelation in hard rock/blues fusion, when their former incarnation (the underrated Yardbirds), The Rolling Stones, The Who and Cream all stepped on that bridge before the creation of Led Zeppelin. Further, the debut--for me--was good, but my ear hears it for what it was: the deliberate continuation of where the original group--and the musical movement of the era--were going. Needless to say, I was not one of the guys in the 70s who placed LZ on a platform of rock godhood. Well, considering the sounds Terry Kath was unleashing in the early days of his group, the similarity would be natural, as many bands--no matter the sub-genre--were diving deeper into those type of musical waters. ITs just unfortunate that Kath still gets glossed over when it comes to rating innovators or just great guitarists in rock history.
_______ 50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 1) _______ The Ed Sullivan Show Season 21, episode 18 Originally aired February 16, 1969 As represented in The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show Oddly, tv.com indicates that Blood, Sweat & Tears weren't here to perform their about-to-chart first hit single...only what was shown on Best of, the album track "Smiling Phases," which was written by members of, and originally recorded by, the band Traffic. I couldn't find a clip of BS&T's performance, but here's the studio recording. It's a good vehicle for their distinctive jazz-rock style. During the instrumental section, the pianist doubles as conductor for the horn section, while the singer contributes with gong and triangle. Caterina Valente, whom tv.com indicates had already been performing solo in the episode, introduces her brother, Silvio Francesco, who proceeds to play "Turkish Rondo" on clarinet while she sings along--I think her part is scat-singing, but it could be really fast Italian for all I know! It is pretty impressive. Finally, we have "Austria's plate-spinning Erich Brenn". He's actually spinning clear bowls up on the poles while he keeps a series of plates going down on the table. He also briefly balances a tray of eggs on a pole with his forehead. The clip below is longer than what we see on Best of, but they actually edit out the egg-balancing bit. You see him preparing the tray and then they cut to him minding the plates and bowls. Also in the original episode according to tv.com: _______ Mission: Impossible "Doomsday" Originally aired February 16, 1969 Jim's explanation in the briefing of how the general that Rollin's replacing is being kept out of the picture by plane trouble suggests that there are other operatives out there handling that end of things. Jim and Cin ally themselves with one of the interested parties, Kura (Arthur Batanidas), so that she can serve as his scientific adviser. Barney uses an interview at the company of the industrialist, Vandaam, as a cover for getting into a ventilation shaft via two elevator shafts with a boxload of equipment, from which he gets to the bomb from above and swaps out its plutonium. Cin and Jim have little active role in the scheme for most of the episode, while Rollin being among the bidders doesn't seem to have any purpose in the scheme, other than stalling to unsuccessfully prevent somebody from going back into the bomb chamber while Barney's working there...he's just there to be there, and eventually just withdraws from the bidding and leaves. Willy is barely in the episode, he just plays Jim's heavy, and Jim is out of the picture for a good hunk of the episode once he gets Cin in with Kura. Barney's doing all the work without any help from them. The basis for the operation doesn't make a lot of sense, either. The plutonium is stolen, so why does the thief have to be an industrialist? They say right in the episode that anybody can build a bomb, they just need the plutonium...so why does he bother building one? Why not just sell the plutonium? Filler alert: Barney has two moments of hanging in the elevator shaft by tenuously grasping a horizontal bar, which I'm pretty sure used the same shots. This one has kind of a similar twist to "The Glass Cage"--when Vandaam realizes the plutonium has been switched, he attempts to proceed with the sale while deceiving the bidders. Once Jim is back in the picture, Willy uses a trick suitcase to replace the briefcase full of money from the bank with another one that has money rigged for burning via remote. Cin finally serves a purpose late in the scheme when she demands to inspect the plutonium after Kura wins the bidding. Then Kura demands his money back and finds that it's gone, leading him to have his heavy (Sid Haig) shoot Vandaam. Barney does the only thing that's really necessary in the scheme, which is steal the plutonium. Overall, the episode seems like an overly simple, practically one-man heist scheme that's loaded with filler. The scheme doesn't have any interesting layers. Also guesting Khigh Dhiegh (Wo Fat from Hawaii Five-O) as one of the bidders and Philip Ahn as his scientific adviser. Kind of a waste of two such distinctive actors who could have carried their own plot. _______ The Avengers "Fog" Originally aired February 17, 1969 (US); March 12, 1969 (UK) You can tell from the description that this is going to be back to the tired ol' formula, but it has a decent pace and a novel atmosphere, with the bulk of the episode set on foggy, cobblestone streets; and the eccentricity of the club is a bit entertaining. The episode opens with the gag of a "Visit Sunny Britain" sign on display on a foggy set of a train station. Mother's driving around in a Jeep with a beacon light, a radar antenna, and flags, making it look sort of like a ship. Steed's faked murder is a forgery that he has Tara make in his aunt's diary. The club has an even faker foggy street set inside their headquarters...about on par with some of the minimalist sets in Batman Season 3. In the climax, Steed shows off his "instinctive reflex training" that lets him catch one thrown saber and deflect several others. The killer, whom I had trouble distinguishing from at least one of the other club members, gives himself away by dropping a Poe reference to one of the victims, after having told Steed that Poe was his favorite author. He's wants to stop the conference--which pretty much fades into the background once Steed starts investigating the club--because he's in the armaments trade. The sun comes out for the first time at the end of the episode. In the coda, Tara's apartment is filled with fog because of a malfunctioning air conditioning system, and Mother accidentally drives into it (off camera). Steed actually does have flowers in a tuba in his apartment...I'd never noticed that. _______ Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Season 2, episode 20 Originally aired February 17, 1969 The opening bit, with this week's main guest star (who gets a lot more clips on YouTube than Davy Jones did). There's no Dan & Dick routine before the opening cocktail party, but there is one after the commercial that follows. Tiny Tim sings the news song: The costumes worn by the other cast members in the number are Valentines-themed, even though this aired three days after. This episode's Potpourri segment, which include James Drury and Doug McClure from The Virginian: The Fickle Finger of Fate goes to New York's Finest. Judy does another Campus Report. Laugh-In Salutes the Good Ole Days (already in progress in the clip below, following a commercial break in the middle of the segment): In the segment's intro, not shown here, they used a negative effect on Judy doing the bikini dance. Jack Riley's LBJ gives a brief farewell speech. The closing Joke Wall, featuring Tiny Tim: _______ The Mod Squad "The Uptight Town" Originally aired February 18, 1969 It seems like every show did this episode in some form, from Route 66 to Mission: Impossible. While the Mod Trio are driving in the California desert, we get an interesting Linc tidbit: "My whole life I've never been this far away from concrete." Also, this sign-o-the-times-and-place insight: "A year ago, I wouldn't give two pop bottles for a cop." Guesting Jason Evers as the local sheriff, who's billed as..."Sheriff". Lou Gossett is back as Lloyd, who runs the local service station...a "jive grease monkey" in Linc's parlance. If I hadn't already seen his name on IMDb, I just might have recognized him this time because of his facial hair. Both are among the conspiring townspeople. The Squad sniffs out early on that the conspiracy has something to do with Donna Jennings, a mysterious selectively mute girl whom they almost run over in the road. Donna's father runs a local hotel that, predictably enough, doesn't want guests. After witnessing a dispute between Mr. Jennings and his drunk cook, Linc brings the cook a bottle of booze to loosen his tongue, and finds out that a man was lynched in the town. I got a little Rat Patrol nostalgia when the Mods confronted Lloyd in the desert and it turned into a set for the close-ups. Eventually the conspirators round up the Mods at gunpoint and Jennings wants to kill them using a cover story. Pete figures out that they haven't offed Greer, who witnessed the lynching, because the Sheriff can't bring himself to kill a fellow cop. Thus Pete plays the unusual card of dropping the Squad's covers, letting them know that they're about to kill a total of four cops, and that Chief Metcalf will only be sending more to investigate their deaths. There's a twist when Donna reveals that she wasn't attacked by the man they hanged...she loved him consensually. With the Sheriff's cooperation , the Mods rescue Greer in the nick of time from being drowned in his car by the deputy (who looks distractingly like a Will Ferrell character). Julie: A stranger...and they just hung him. Why? Pete: You already said why. He was a stranger. Linc: For some people that's enough. Pete: But it'll change. The world's gotta change. Linc: I just wanna be around to see it. And...uptight town walk-off...well, walk to the woody. Woody walk? _______ Co-written by Smokey Robinson and fellow Miracle Bobby Rogers. You can hear a lot of Smokey in the stuff that he wrote for other groups. That's what I have to do in my head. I should charge a fee. This one has a nice sound...between that and the fact that it's available in good quality in that Cameo-Parkway collection, I'm tempted to get it. The better side of bubblegum. Maybe it'll grow on me in playlist listening, but this one is utterly forgettable, in stark contrast to their other two major hits. His contributions in this era continue to be pleasant. Jerry's got a great voice...very smooth. The first in a surprisingly small string of major hits this year. Others may have started down the road, but they went further.
_______ 50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 2) _______ Ironside "And Be My Love" Originally aired February 20, 1969 A burglar has been targeting wealthy victims, and Commissioner Randall is under pressure to catch him. The latest victim is a society columnist named Larry Curtis (Chad Everett; for some reason the character's name is given as Larry Van Druten in the IMDb listing; but IMDb tells me that the actor is from South Bend!). Sparks immediately and cringily fly between him and Eve. I sure don't, Chief. The Chief begins to suspect Curtis of being the burglar early on, and Team Ironside learns that he has an irregular source of additional income. Somehow that I didn't catch, they also begin to suspect that an answering service is being used to tip off the burglars as to when its subscribers aren't going to be home, and they find out that Curtis--who's been coincidentally cancelling dates with Eve on the nights of the burglaries after checking the service--called about one potential victim. Team Ironside set a trap by leaking leads about a potential victim via husbands of girls working at answering service. The actual burglar turns out to be one of the husbands. Curtis's extra income was from selling short stories under a pen name. But by the time they catch the burglar, Eve realizes she didn't truly love Curtis because she didn't heed the gospel of Tammy Wynette. I was afraid this would be a weak one when I saw that it was an Eve-centric episode--Anderson's acting hasn't gotten any less wooden. A stronger guest actor playing against her might have elevated the romance angle that was the core of the story, but Everett was pure blah...not nearly as head-over-heals suave as the episode was trying to make him out to be. At one point Mark uses the phrase "sock it to him". _______ Star Trek "The Way to Eden" Originally aired February 21, 1969 Stardate 5832.3 See my post here. _______ Adam-12 "Log 73: I'm Still a Cop" Originally aired February 22, 1969 Alas, I believe this is all that we ever see of Malloy's college life, which could have been an interesting angle to revisit occasionally. We find that he's got a flirty friendship with a former history instructor of his named Peggy (Anne Helm)...who's cute, but in her first scene she's basically a coffee-drinking infodump about where things are at on the American campus in 1969. Another faculty member, Prof. Pinter (Paul Carr), encourages the students in their anti-authoritarian activities. The students start to invite Pete to a gathering, but turn very rude when they lear that he's a "pig". Back at the station, Malloy's getting a talking-to from Moore about how he handled a recent traffic violator when they get a call about a riot at the campus. The students are holding a demonstration that involves occupying the office of the Dean, who says that he'd be willing to consider their demands under other circumstances. The police end up arresting a large group of students and taking them back to the station. Following this incident, the students at the college become downright hostile to Malloy. He explains the police's side of things to Peggy, which includes some cynical but realistic-sounding wisdom about how provoking confrontations and getting arrested is exactly what the demonstrators want. Following this conversation, Pete finds his new car vandalized. When he reports it back at the station, Lt. Moore questions whether Pete's attending the college to get an education or to make a point, and Pete admits that it's maybe a little of both. Back at the campus, Pinter (who draws suspicion on himself by opening with defensiveness about what happened to Malloy's car) gives Malloy the same sort of argument from the opposite end, trying to persuade him that he should drop out because he gives the students a "false target," focusing their aim on him as a person rather than on what he represents. Malloy has some pretty stern words in return... Later the Dean calls Pete to his office to tell him that a timing device has been stolen from a lab, and expresses his concern that it might be used against Malloy. Malloy, more concerned that it might be used for something else, starts questioning students, and finds that it's likely been used by the main student antagonist in the episode, Paul Banner (Geoffrey Deuel) as the timer for a bomb. Having determined the likely time and vicinity of detonation based on warnings that have been circulated to other students, Malloy takes Banner there, pressures the location of the bomb out of him, and defuses it. In the coda, Malloy seems to have gained some respect from the students, who want to include him on their future activities to take his side of things into account. A nice idea, but perhaps a bit too wishful on the show's part. In case you couldn't tell, Reed was barely in the episode. He was one of the officers who responded to the demonstration and appeared in one other off-duty scene (dropping Malloy off at the campus at the beginning of the episode), but there were no scenes of the two together on patrol, which is a first for the series. _______ Get Smart "To Sire, with Love: Part 2" Originally aired February 22, 1969 With 99's help, Max manages to lure the tarantula away and kill it by trapping it in a jar full of horse radish. Note: He assumes that it's deadly even though he dismisses that it's from KAOS. After this, an insecure Max poses as the King to try to woo 99 and it isn't working, until 99 gets a phone call in which she learns that the King is elsewhere, figures out what's going on, and plays along with Max's seduction attempt. Then while she's upstairs slipping into something more comfortable, King Charles comes back and Max finds out that 99 knew about the King's whereabouts, so he briefly pretends that he just came home and that the one coming on to her had been the King all along...but when he sees how regretful 99 is, he confesses...just in time for the King's abduction downstairs. Max goes to the Embassy and finds his way into the secret passage that Sir Rupert had been using the previous episode. An uncredited Don Rickles appears as one of Sir Rupert's guards. After Rupert's inept main henchman takes himself out, Max manages to hold his own in a duel until the Chief arrives with backup. The King is grateful and offers to repay Max. _______ Hogan's Heroes "The Purchasing Plan" Originally aired February 22, 1969 The prisoners aren't happy about an assignment to store munitions under the barracks and deliver them to multiple locations. Meanwhile Klink is under pressure from Burkhalter over Stalag 13's expenses, and Carter on his own initiative comes up with a plan to distribute the Stalag's resources to other camps. At first the other prisoners accuse him of volunteering to aid the enemy, but Hogan sees the plan as an opportunity to have the Germans deliver the munitions for them. For Klink's benefit, Hogan pretends to consider Carter's offer to be traitorous, in order to get Klink to go along with it. They literally smuggle the munitions up from the tunnel via an exit in Schultz's room, while he sleeps aided by a drug. After the munitions are successfully delivered to the underground and the supplies successfully delivered to the other stalags, Klink wants to celebrate with Hogan and Carter by breaking open a case of wine that he took from the back of one of the trucks...except that it's actually a crate of nitro! They manage to get it outside and detonate it, then convince Klink that it was an attempt on his life by Hochstetter. DISSS!!!Missed! _______
Campbell was on a roll with the one-two punch of 1968's Wichita Lineman (album and song) and the same with Galveston. Although he released albums and duo work throughout the decade (and had some memorable hits), it could be argued that he was still best known as a great session player. However the final two years of the 60s made him a solid, major act in country/pop. Timeless. Like the best from Gary Puckett and the Union Gap and Classics IV, BS&T was taking a voyage of far more mature, exploratory arrangements than most of the celebrated acts of that time. Although floating cities were not new to sci-fi, for Star Trek, it broke new ground with the kind of worlds/environments that existed in TOS' world (IOW, not just ground bases, etc.). Beautiful set design, and another unique device (the torture device) that also happened to have a visual appeal. Very sad about Peter Tork's passing. I knew he had dealt with cancer, but he had been playing recently and spoke of his illness as if he had it under control. Of his bandmates, he was the most consistently insightful and fair-minded during and after the original Monkees period. He had a big heart. Tork will be missed as he moves to the next journey, but he should also be remembered for being a multi-talented musician, classically trained on a few instruments and became more than proficient on others. You can hear that on the harpsichord solo he created for "The Girl I Knew Somewhere", and his electric organ version of Carl Phillipp Emanuel Bach's "Solfeggio," (not Solfeggietto as most people misspell/mispronounce it)-- --which made him one of the more versatile musicians of 60s rock, though certain music rags will never admit what everyone else knew. Interesting thing about this clip of the early version of "Words" is that Tork once said this was the instrument line-up the he thought should have been followed-- --as he thought he was the stronger, or more natural guitarist than Mike, while I believe he said Davy had better timing on drums than Micky, and in concert, it was not uncommon to see him sit in on drums when Micky was performing up front. Strong episode. Mixer, you thought Route 66 and Mission: Impossible had episodes similar to this, but the typically political nature of The Mod Squad show--with a racially mixed trio dealing with a small town that plans to lynch them resonated more to 60's audiences, and I would be willing to bet the episode's writers were not unware that it would evoke memories of the triple murders of civil rights workers Chaney, Schwerner & Goodman, which were only 5 years old (and very much a defining event of the 60s) at that time. I appreciated the scene, as it shows just how far Linc has come in so short a time as an undercover cop. Notice how Linc had no tolerance for Lloyd, and delivers a very violent slap while yelling, "Not fast enough!" at Lloyd not coughing up the information. One thing this series excelled at was having a black character not wilt from a respnsibility when dealing with another from the same race. From Linc's perspective, for everything he had to overcome just to get where he's at, seeing another black guy perpetuate a societal negative by being a criminal--partiularly one going along with an abduction / possible murder. Donna Jennings, portrayed by Donna Baccala, who was the object of Davy Jones' sympathy/crush in "Monkees at the Circus" (2/13/67). The Mods throwing their law enforcement weight around was nice to see, right down to offering Chief Metcalf's phone number. Linc's line had much weight at the time--and today, only because many did not believe the would see the world change--and in many ways, it has not. Speaking of the Woody-- In 1969, Aurora Plastics Corporation released a model kit based on the Squad and their Woody-- --which had a short-lived production run, in part thanks to the Woody meeting its end on the series in the months to come, so the association with the show was lost almost immediately. Today, a mint-in-box kit can be pretty pricey.
Had Me's Monkees episodes on in the background while doing stuff, caught that unlike Antenna, they used the authentic Season 1 credits for the first episode. Then you prefer...The Rays! *CLAP!* Also noteworthy is that he was the first to leave the band...I believe I read that he'd quit by this point in 50th Anniversaryland, after they'd made the TV special but before it aired...leaving the band active as a trio for a while afterward (which is how they'll appear on an episode of Laugh-In next season). Not me, I would have gone with Spaghettio. I was referring strictly to the plot of the protagonists coming across a town holding a dark secret that makes it notably unfriendly to strangers. I wasn't detecting a race angle in the Mod Squad version...I think they nullified that potential by including Gossett as one of the conspirators. And they were planning to shoot the Squad, not lynch them. Nifty! Did Julie ever wear thigh boots? And did they ever do a surfing episode?
Austria is like a factory for plate-spinning prodigies. Interesting. I wonder if Phelps arranges stuff like that, or if he has a way of submitting support service requests to Tape Voice. This will come up at his annual review. Added value? Maybe they were hanging out in the studio that day or something. Ah, yes, I remember this one. I enjoyed the ambiance. Whoa, that Biafra bit was grim. I like it when Tiny Tim is treated like a member of the cast and not just as a joke. Understatement city, man. The premiere of Route 66, in fact. Nice. That must have been a cool scene. Hah. Sorry. Send me a CPT and an ICD-10 and I'll have my insurance company send you something. Aside from the two hits, much, if not all, of their stuff is low-key, barroom Rock, but still pretty good, from what I've heard of it. Chad Everett was basically a hunk who stood around looking handsome. He lacked the panache of similar hunks, like Lyle Waggoner. Heh. He got hit with his own wisdom about provoking confrontations. Yeah, that was definitely sending a message-- and more likely then than now. Aww, aren't they cute?
_______ 55th and 50th Anniversary Fly-on-the-Wall Listening Both of these tracks from the sessions for A Hard Day's Night, as released on Anthology 1, Disc 2, were recorded on February 25, 1964: "You Can't Do That" (Track 10) "And I Love Her" (Track 11) George's 26th birthday present must have been a day working on his songs. All of the tracks below, as released on Anthology 3, Disc 2, were recorded on February 25, 1969. "All Things Must Pass" (Track 10; will become the title track of his solo debut triple album) "Old Brown Shoe" (Track 13; will become the B-side of the standalone Beatles single, "The Ballad of John and Yoko") "Something" (Track 16; the only song among these that will make it onto Abbey Road) _______ It was. Went something like, "Didja ever wonder why three kids like us would come looking for a cop like Greer? Yeah, that's right, we work for him!" Of course, they didn't seem to have their IDs handy this time. You got me, I hate forms. I get anxiety just looking at that. Nothing like a little role-play to spice up the marriage.
This is a beautiful song. Not only is it one of my favorites, but it's a real time travel song for me. It takes me right back to happy Summer days in Dorchester-- no, I'm not being sarcastic. I wondered about that. Those aren't even forms, they're just codes. You'd actually need an NPI number, too. Welcome to my world. Rollin and Cinnamon agree.
Sitting on the piazza, eating a spucky and drinking a can of tonic? Then why is she always paired up with Jim? Wait, don't answer that....
Wow, good memory. Or good records. The specific imagery that first pops into my head for this song is actually walking from the schoolyard (the Edward Everett, for historical accuracy) toward my house. I can see George & Deb's market on the corner on the left and I'm pulling at the leaves on the bushes that are popping through the chain-link fence on my right. It's very vivid.
I remembered the tonic part, a quick search found the rest. I couldn't remember what you called the porch, and had completely forgotten the spucky part (which sounds like the kid sidekick of a Golden Age hero). Pop quiz: Without looking it up, which song evoked this setting for you?
Turns out that you were right about The Monkees on MeTV. They will now be a permanent fixture on Sunday afternoons. According to the email, this is due to a positive response to the Peter Tork tribute, not something they had planned, though. Actually, it does. I like that. I'm not sure. Possibilities that spring to mind are something by the Bee Gees, like "Holiday," or maybe "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" by Dionne Warwick. Could be "The Girl From Ipanema," although I'm not sure that's ever come up in one of these threads.
Could be they were still planning to add it to their lineup later, and just moved up their plans. What show is it replacing? You'd think they could've dumped an hour of Gilligan's Island, but I guess that'd mess up their "Three-Hour Tour" ads. The Adventures of CAPTAIN COURAGEOUS and SPUCKY, the KID MARVEL! "Curse you, Crimson Cowl! If you've harmed Spucky, there'll be no corner on Earth where you can hide!" Ah, I wanted to see if the association went both ways. You got the right artist for one of those, at least. The answer is, "Do You Know the Way to San Jose".