time
time was – when it hardly moved – time that is
n think back to when you were 15 …
couldn’t drive a car – didn’t have one…
and – way -- too grown up for bikes or scooters…
jump forward a few short months
now 16 - you’re driving, dreaming and living
‘People Just Got To Be Free’
1968 seen 20 on the age dial
“the ink is black”
remember the opening of “Hang on Sloopy?”
the drums ….
Sloopy lives in a very bad part of town….
me in the back seat - 15 years old
two girls and me - all three of us
too shy to do anything but make jokes
hitching a ride to the city
going to the state fair
listening to
“Hang on Sloopy”
just yesterday I say
sloopy let your hair down
let it hang down on me
just who was sloopy?
yardbirds just hanging around the yard
but it’s too late to say you’re sorry
Zombies….
The “M and B Club” – was “the place” to go in my day and when you were there you were “there” – though I never knew what M or B meant – I do remember the music, the beer and the girls …
‘she’s not there’ you know
how about the opening of …
“Don’t Worry Baby” …. Shit --- that song takes me back
Well it’s been building up inside me for oh - I don’t know how long….
I don't know why but I keep thinking
something will go wrong
Don’t Worry Baby – everything will turn out alright
I guess I should of kept my mouth shut…
I remember the light on my 8-track stereo was ‘purple’ and Don’t Worry Baby is playing and I’m proud of the 8-track cause I don’t need any cardboard inserted in the top or bottom for it to play…. Gee…. Don’t worry baby
Back in the day we had - JFK, John Glenn, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Elvis, Roger Maris, Jim Brown….
Who does this generation have ? ==== Obama – weak kneed, skinny black guy who can’t bowl and gags on a beer and a woman who throws back whiskey shots with the men -- or steroid junkies - like Roger Clemons and Barry (Pillsbury Doughboy) Bonds.
Groovin…. On a Sunday afternoon….
..and we did
groovin down a crowded avenue…
wouldn’t you love to flip the pages backward and lose the computers, cell phones, fax machines, robotic voice mail, etc. etc.?? wouldn’t you?
….go back to the gasoline pump – where the gas was 50 cents a gallon and someone ‘pumped’ it for you and give you a glass for stopping by….
You baby … nobody but you…
turtles…
candy is sweet but it just can’t compete with you … baby…
a little ray of sunshine
a little bit of soul
just a touch of magic
What a day for a daydream
What a day for a daydreaming boy
Now I’m lost in a daydream
Yo… just me a dreaming about days gone by and even though time isn’t on my side - it’s time to have a sweet dream…
So… the year is 2008 …. Whatever happen to those years between 1960 and 2008? All 48 of them?
Where did they go?
Hmm… must of went somewhere with Scratch’s Mojo.
So…
If I find Scratch’s Mojo (for him)
Then … I find the 48 years between 1960 and now, yes?
This Diamond Ring….
Brown Eye Girl…. One of the best openings of any song
Hey where did we go days when the rain came
Down in the hollow playing a new game
Laughing and running
Skipping and jumping
In the misty morning
My brown eye girl
Van Morrison talks about a ‘transistor radio’….
Give me a “Victory Party” after the football game, a beer, and Sherry showing up – looking for me…
Screw 2008 – give me 68 or 69 or 70 or ..….
I remember those days very well. Heading to the beach with my buddies to the sounds of Dirty Water..Down by the river...down by the banks of the river Charles. Tunes by the Association, Turtles, The 59th Street Bridge Song. Yes, lets go back there. How about August of 1968? You pick the beach.
Sherry
I would trade all of this fancy smancy technology for a simplier kind of life from long ago. Wouldn't it be lovely?
Bear Hugs!
PolarB ;)
thanks for coming by and dropping all those tunes on me and as for the beach --- hell it doesn't matter .... any beach will do, you know.
ice
"and Coke was a sodapop." Those were the days, yes? lol Your comment about "drive in movies" - instantly took me back to my home town when we used to 'sneak in' the drive-in by getting in the trunk of the car. I swear the old guy who took the tickets knew we were back there..... laugh.... and just let us in anyway, lol.
penny candy.... lol
I would trade all of this fancy smancy technology for a simplier kind of life from long ago. I would too PB and yes it would be lovely....
thanks for your comment
ice
long time passing and where have all the flowers gone? where have they gone for sure.....
I don't know Cracker.... but as of late --- for some reason --- I've really been thinking about the 'good ol days' and yes! they were good! I really do wish we could return to those days... yes I do.
ice
long time no see, but glad to have you on my blog again!!
you been doing good?
thanks for the comment
and don't you wish we could 'flip backward' in time to say, uh, July 11th 1969?
ice
and WHO was the first person to comment on the blog - ? Sherry?
now... how did that happen.....ROFLMAO
thanks Sherry....
ice
keep playing the music ...
ice
ice
p.s. your blog is really kool.....
thanks for stopping in
ice
p.s. below is some unasked for - history of the song - just - for your information..
"Hang on Sloopy" is a hit song by the pop group The McCoys which was #1 in America in October 1965 and is the official rock song of the state of Ohio and The Ohio State University. It was written by Wes Farrell and Bert Russell and is named for singer Dorothy Sloop (1913-1998), who used the name "Sloopy" on stage.
The song was originally titled "My Girl Sloopy" and was first recorded by The Vibrations in 1964 on Atlantic Records (45-2222), becoming a top thirty hit. It was the title track of a live 1965 recording (released on Rhapsody in 1966) by the Ramsey Lewis Trio which earned a gold record. It has also been recorded by Arseno Rodriguez (Bang 1966), The Supremes (Motown 1966), The Kingsmen (WAND 1966), Little Caesar and the Consuls, The Yardbirds, Saving Jane, Jan & Dean (Capitol 1966) and Die Toten Hosen (2002). It has also been performed by Johnny Thunders and the Oddballs in a medley with "Louie Louie" and can be heard on the "Add Water and Stir" live Japan bootleg.In 1965, The Strangeloves, a rock band who purported to be from Australia, decided to make the song the follow-up to their hit single "I Want Candy", and began performing the song in concert. However, the Dave Clark Five, who they were touring with, told the Strangeloves that they were going to record their own version of the song, copying the Strangeloves' arrangement. The Strangeloves realized that the Dave Clark Five's version would probably outsell their own, but they were still enjoying success with "I Want Candy" and did not want to release a new single yet. So the trio—who were, in reality, three successful writer/producers from Brooklyn, New York--recruited a group from Dayton, Ohio, Rick and the Raiders, to record the song instead. The group's name was changed to The McCoys (to avoid confusion with another popular band of the era, Paul Revere and the Raiders), and their 16-year-old leader, Rick Zehringer, became known as Rick Derringer. The group added vocals and a guitar solo to the already-completed Strangeloves backing track, and the single was released on Bang Records. It entered the chart on August 14, 1965, effectively beating the Dave Clark Five to the charts. The single went on to hit number one on October 2.
The song gained an association with the Ohio State University after its marching band began playing it at football games; it first played it October 9, 1965 after a band member, John Tatgenhorst, begged the director to try playing it. After finally convincing the director, Tatgenhorst arranged the song and the band played. After the crowd reaction, the band began to play it at every game and now it is a Saturday tradition to play the song before the start of the fourth quarter of every Buckeye game. Since then, the song has become an unofficial fight song for the university, with it appearing on the band's CDs and as a free download on its website.
The song has also become a feature at all Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Browns home games where, like at Ohio State, it is traditionally played before the fourth quarter. Fans usually chant the letters "O, H, I, O" during the pauses in the chorus while mimicking the shape of the letters with their arms. It is also sometimes done at home games of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Cleveland Indians.
The "O, H, I, O" chant was incorporated into a version of the song recorded by the Columbus, Ohio based rock band Saving Jane.
Somehow or other, when I woke up this morning I was hearing "Do You Know What I Mean" by Lee Michaels in my head. A quick trip to project playlist and they had it!!!!!!!! So, I threw it up on my blog playlist and had myself some fun listening to it.
Sherry
When my daughter was little, she thought the lyrics in the song, Drift Away was:
Give me the BEACH BOYS.....
And, from an Elton John song (can't remember the title right now), until LAST year, I thought the lyrics were:
She had ELECTRIC BOOBS, HER MA DID TOO....
Live and learn...
'69 was a good year!
Reminisce while you enjoy this song.
oh them old songs (and what they do to us)
do you know what I mean?
thanks for the comment
ice
are you kidding? lol, riflmao
gee.... that felt good (to roll in floor laughing my ass off)
thanks a bunch
ice
thanks for fluttering by
ice
ice
lol ice
The actual line is: She's got electric BOOTS, a mohair suit....
ice
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So sweet ... I couldn't help mentioning you in my post today!
Hugggggggggggggggggz,
Taylor
ice