Thanks for the good cry, Elle. I had never heard that before.
I wonder if Ted wrote that himself.
"Very little if anything exists from this show and it won't turn up anywhere as there is nothing from the show in private hands."
Then, suddenly--uh oh.
I remember this very old SNL film short that first ran during the mid-to late 70's, thirty years ago--it showed very real, very elderly people in a Florida 'Senior' Center, with (assumed, mocking) names like 'Snowflake, 'Dawn' and 'Rainbow,' each telling about the 'Old Days' of Free Love and LSD--
(Should I change my name to 'snowflake?')
Aw, John, I think "Moonbeam" would suit you better. ;)
(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j174/jmmgallagher/68shirtWashingtonandWest11th.jpg)
You wear that, and those who don't know what it means'll be telling you you look darn good for 68 years old, snowflake.
01. Hey Jude » Beatles
02. Love Is Blue » Paul Mauriat
03. Honey » Bobby Goldsboro
04. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay » Otis Redding
05. People Got To Be Free » Rascals
06. Sunshine Of Your Love » Cream
07. This Guy's In Love With You » Herb Alpert
08. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly » Hugo Montenegro
09. Mrs. Robinson » Simon & Garfunkel
11. Harper Valley P.T.A. » Jeannie C. Riley (I think I still have the 45 of this somewhere!)
12. Little Green Apples » O.C. Smith
13. Mony, Mony » Tommy James & The Shondells
14. Hello, I Love You » Doors
15. Young Girl » Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
20. Dance To The Music » Sly & The Family Stone
25. Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) » John Fred & His Playboy Band
26. Spooky » Classics IV
27. Love Child » Diana Ross & The Supremes
28. Angel Of The Morning » Merrilee Rush
30. Those Were The Days » Mary Hopkin
31. Born To Be Wild » Steppenwolf
33. Simon Says » 1910 Fruitgum Company
34. Lady Willpower » Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
36. The Look Of Love » Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
38. Yummy, Yummy, Yummy » Ohio Express
43. Classical Gas » Mason Williams
50. Jumpin' Jack Flash » Rolling Stones
51. MacArthur Park » Richard Harris
52. Light My Fire » Jose Feliciano
56. Summertime Blues » Blue Cheer
57. Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing » Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
60. Lady Madonna » Beatles
62. Magic Carpet Ride » Steppenwolf
66. Delilah » Tom Jones
69. The Fool On The Hill » Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
71. Indian Lake » Cowsills
73. Over You » Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
74. Goin' Out Of My Head / Can't Take My Eyes Off You » Lettermen
76. The Unicorn » Irish Rovers
77. (You Keep Me) Hangin' On » Vanilla Fudge
78. Revolution » Beatles
79. Woman, Woman » Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
88. Do You Know The Way To San Jose » Dionne Warwick
89. Scarborough Fair / Canticle » Simon & Garfunkel
91. The Mighty Quinn » Manfred Mann
93. I Say A Little Prayer » Aretha Franklin
95. Sealed With A Kiss » Gary Lewis & The Playboys
97. Suzie Q. » Creedence Clearwater Revival
100. Never Give You Up » Jerry Butler
Those were the days... (no. 30 on the list!)
Hey! I'd never heard of Jonathan Groff, but he's going to be in Ang's new Woodstock movie!
I have vivid memories of going to see the stage play Hair.
It was July 1970, in Sydney.
My husband and I made a last minute decison to go go and see it and got to the theatre only ten minutes before show time. Hubby said he would go and park the car, while I went to the ticket office to buy the tickets. As I walked up to the ticket office, I was aproached by two American Marines.....at the time, Sydney was a very popular place for American servicemen to take R&R leave from Vietnam.......they asked me if I wanted to see the show, and I said I was just about to buy tickets for me and my husband. They handed me two tickets, and said, have these.
Apparently they had bought four tickets, two for themselves and two for their dates who apparently had not turned up, which was quite sad. We ended up sitting next to them in the theatre. We were planning to ask them if they wanted to go for a drink afterwards, but unfortunately they did not return after intermission.
Whenever I hear the music of Hair, I always remember that night, and those American marines.
John, you are a true channeler of the 60's, and you're even five years younger than me! I must have slept a lot as I went through high school and college. ;)
Thanks for the great "Hair" pics, and of course for spending all day in line getting the so-called free tickets. I'm glad to see your one illicit snapshot came out, despite the usher's stern looks. ;D
I was hoarse as a hog after belting out the high part of "Let the Sun Shine" in chest voice! :P
Great Hair pictures John! I saw it 2 or 3 years ago at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. My parents (who were 21 and 19 in 1968) said it was important for my brother and I to see it. I listen to the title song all the time and a few others are definite favorites of mine. I love that show.
Yeah, Frank Mills is good. So is Donna. :)
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Paul--I bet you loved this one--one of my all time favorites, in 1966:
Un Homme et Une Femme - Claude Lelouch 1966 (2:28)
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And everyone had a transistor radio beside them as they sunbaked on the beach...in fact one radio station used to have a call every half hour saying...."time to turn over in the sun".....so everyone would get an even tan.......no one ever thought to tell us to put sun block on though.
Yeah that was back "when a smoke was a smoke and groovin was groovin"........
As for baking on the beach...forget sunscreen! Do you remember the baby oil and iodine concoction we slathered ourselves with? Talk about frying in the sun!
L
Wow, that was fun, Jack. Thanks.
I turned 5 in 1968, but I know most of those songs. In fact, #76 holds a special place in my heart, as it was the first 45 I ever owned (and I still have it!): The Unicorn by the Irish Rovers. It kinda stands out as an odd duck amongst all the other rock and pop hits.
And here is something that is funny I remember hearing that song when I was little and I thought it was a true story of why there were no unicorns :laugh: I really did! I also used to think that songs that had the word "baby" in them were talking about real babies as in infants. For example, songs like "Since I Lost My Baby" meant that someone had lost their baby, their child :laugh:
Jack, that is funny.........we were all pretty naeive then eh?
Thank you so much for sharing your and Meryl's Hairy experience with us, John. Those are totally wonderful pictures! And thanks for the Top 100 list of 1968. These days, are there still 100 songs that are published in one year? I wonder! So many of those made the memories rush back!!
Naive and oblivious, I think. I listen to some of these old songs and say to myself, how I did I miss all these references to sex and drugs? Robert Plant singing, "I want to be your back door man" (c'mon, quick, what song? what group? what year? I am sure 90% of the people here know.) but back then I just thought it was a catchy lyric. LOL.
I mean, heck, we can even turn those missing unicorns into something dirty if we felt like it! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
L
Hey! I'd never heard of Jonathan Groff, but he's going to be in Ang's new Woodstock movie!
I turned 17 in 1968.....met my husband in March 1968......got engaged to him in July 1968 (my 17th birthday)......and married him in February 1969.....
(and its still going strong)
I was lucky to be a teenager thru the sixties.....was into Elvis....then Beatlemania.....then the hippie era......there was some fantastic music, and as I look down that list of songs, I reckon I could still sing word for word every one of them.......
OUR song was Young Girl by The Union Gap......whenever we hear it now, we look at each other and smile that "remember when" smile...and you know, when I remember, I can even smell the perfume I wore and the after shave he wore.........there is nothing like a song to bring back memories......
I mean, heck, we can even turn those missing unicorns into something dirty if we felt like it! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
L
Good job with the lyrics, Leslie, but don't go turning my Unicorn song into something nasty!
Oh c'mon, what's the mythology about unicorns? They lay their heads in the laps of young virgins?
But now I have to say--Jonathan Groff is really a White Boy worth talking about! :o
I loved him in Spring Awakening as the brave, anguished, forthright Melchior Gabor, and, when he was to be in Hair in Central Park this month (but leaving the production early, yesterday, on Sunday, August 17), I said to Meryl--that's it, it's this weekend or not at all! And we did it! ;D
Funny--I sent some pictures to a friend in San Francisco, an exact contemporary (she went to see Hair in San Francisco in 1970 at 16, just as I went to see it in New York, same year)--and she sent me back an email, and said:
My goodness me! It all comes rushing back! I just loved that "Frank Mills" tune. What songs stayed in your mind? And such hunky cast members! Back in the day, I believe, they were probably on the 'wan' side!
Hilarious!
So here's the real White Boy, 'smooth as milk' (and hunky!) Jonathan Groff! (The extremely young and extremely talented three principals of Spring Awakening, Jonathan, his real live Lady Love, Lea Michele, and my "cousin"--Hah! Joke!--John Gallagher, Jr., the Emmy winner, have now all left the show for even more amazing things--but it's still a terrific show, so try it if you can!)
Something else about a lot of those old songs: Back in those days you could actually hear and comprehend a lot of the lyrics (even if you didn't necessarily comprehend some the double meanings, you still knew what words were being sung). Think how clear the lead vocals were on "Young Girl," just as a for instance.
Young girl....get outta my life
My love for you is way outta line
Gotta run girl!
You're much too young, girl!
(Another lyric from the vault in Leslie's head)
Oh c'mon, what's the mythology about unicorns? They lay their heads in the laps of young virgins?
OMG........OH PLEASE PLEASE DONT TURN MY SONG INTO SOMETHING NASTY...
Gotta admit though, as much as Ive listened to the song millions of times and know the words so clearly, I only ever thought of it in relation to me and Bob......but now, when I just sit here and read the words, it looks like a story hedging on pedophilia.
I wouldn't say that, Katie. After all, the "speaker" is telling her to go away. And I could be wrong, but it seems in my memory that little girls maybe didn't grow up as quickly in 1968 as they seem to do today. She might be a "young girl," but I never imagined she was that young.
That amazing summer--
Anyway: this film, "3,000 Paintings in 3 minutes," was made by a UCLA graduate student-filmmaker named Dan McLaughlin.
The music, of course, is "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams.
It was screened on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" during the summer of 1968 (Glenn Campbell was the host)--
The impact was HUGE. I was 14 years old, and I have never, ever forgotten it.
Late at night (when I was in NH) we could get WABC (from NY) on the radio. We could also get WKBW from Buffalo, NY which made me feel like I was listening to music from Mars! WKBW was a great station, actually, although I could never call myself a "regular" listener since I'd only hear it really late at night, for an hour or two, and only in the summer. LOL.
The odd thing is, when I was growing up in the fifties and sixties, over here in Australia we didnt get much film footage of any of the pop stars, we heard them, but didnt see much of them, except a photo on the record cover. It was years later when we started getting video clips, and old footage of those singers.
Did anyone try that juke box link I posted a few days ago?.....If you havent, you should, you wont be disappointed.
Sue, that's true for me too, that I didn't see what they look like. I'm stunned how many videos there are on YouTube now of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Cream, etc. I never knew what any of them looked like, except for Eric Clapton (aka God) and Robert Plant.
I knew what the Beatles looked like, of course, and the Rolling Stones. And Herman's Hermits, the Beach Boys, Steppenwolf and whomever I might see on the Ed Sullivan Show, Hullabaloo or Shindig!
I knew what the Beatles looked like, of course, and the Rolling Stones. And Herman's Hermits, the Beach Boys, Steppenwolf and whomever I might see on the Ed Sullivan Show, Hullabaloo or Shindig!LOL! I remember Ed sullivan but the others were a bit before me. I grew up with American bandstand and soul train! LOL
What I didn't know is what they looked like just being ordinary and I never knew all the names of the people in the band (again, with the notable exception of the Beatles!). I saw my first music video in 1982 and almost fainted. I thought it was the greatest invention since the LP. LOL.
L
LOL! I remember Ed sullivan but the others were a bit before me. I grew up with American bandstand and soul train! LOL
I remember watcdhing MTV for the first time in 82 as well! It was great! Not like what it is now. Do they even play music anymore?
I think the first video I saw was Hungry like the wolf!
I saw my first music video in 1982 and almost fainted. I thought it was the greatest invention since the LP. LOL.
I think the first video I saw was one of the first videos they ever showed: Video Killed the Radio Star. Great stuff!
I'm listening to the Jukebox now, "Angel of the Morning." Thanks, it's great. :)
II never heard the song on the radio nor saw the video on TV so obviously it was a flop, but I can still hum a few bars of the melody (courtesy of Leslie's vault brain).
L
"Palmer, who made his home in Lugano, Switzerland for his last 15 years, died in Paris, France in 2003 of a sudden heart attack at the age of 54. He is interred at the cemetery in Lugano."
Wow. A dangerous age, as I know first hand....
Yeah, but yours has turned out very differently. Who knew you would be breezily posting away again now? I for one thank every available star for your return.
:-*
aired on MTV
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of the first music videos aired on MTV. These music videos were played on MTV's first day, August 1, 1981.
1. "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles
2. "You Better Run" by Pat Benatar
3. "She Won't Dance With Me" by Rod Stewart (Contains use of the word "fuck" by Stewart [1]. A VH1 broadcast of the video posted on YouTube suggests the word was never edited from the video [2].)
4. "You Better You Bet" by The Who
5. "Little Suzi's on the Up" by Ph.D.
6. "We Don't Talk Anymore" by Cliff Richard
7. "Brass in Pocket" by The Pretenders
8. "Time Heals" by Todd Rundgren
9. "Take It On the Run" by REO Speedwagon
10. "Rockin' the Paradise" by Styx
11. "When Things Go Wrong" by Robin Lane and the Chartbusters
12. "History Never Repeats" by Split Enz
13. "Hold On Loosely" by 38 Special
14. "Just Between You and Me" by April Wine
15. "Sailing" by Rod Stewart
16. "Iron Maiden" by Iron Maiden
17. "Keep On Loving You" by REO Speedwagon
18. "Message of Love" by The Pretenders
19. "Mr. Briefcase" by Lee Ritenour
20. "Double Life" by The Cars
21. "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins
22. "Looking For Clues" by Robert Palmer
23. "Too Late" by Shoes
24. "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" by Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Surface Tension" by Rupert Hine
25. "One Step Ahead" by Split Enz
26. "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty
27. "I'm Gonna Follow You" by Pat Benatar
28. "Savannah Nights" by Tom Johnston
29. "Lucille" by Rockestra
30. "The Best of Times" by Styx
31. "Vengeance" by Carly Simon
32. "Wrathchild" by Iron Maiden
33. "I Wanna Be a Lifeguard" by Blotto
34. "Passion" by Rod Stewart
35. "Oliver's Army" by Elvis Costello
36. "Don't Let Him Go" by REO Speedwagon
37. "Remote Control/Illegal" by The Silencers
38. "Angel of the Morning" by Juice Newton
39. "Little Sister" by Rockpile with Robert Plant
40. "Hold On to the Night" by Bootcamp
41. "Dreaming" by Cliff Richard
42. "Is it You?" by Lee Ritenour
43. "Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac
44. "He Can't Love You" by Michael Stanley Band
45. "Tough Guys" by REO Speedwagon
46. "Rapture" by Blondie
47. "Don't Let Go the Coat" by The Who
48. "Ain't Love a Bitch" by Rod Stewart
49. "Talk of the Town" by The Pretenders
50. "Can't Happen Here" by Rainbow
51. "Thank You for Being a Friend" by Andrew Gold
52. "Bring It All Home" by Gerry Rafferty
53. "Sign of the Gypsy Queen" by April Wine
54. "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" by Kate Bush
55. "Ashes to Ashes" by David Bowie
56. "Just Between You and Me" by April Wine
57. "Rat Race" by The Specials
58. "Once in a Lifetime" by Talking Heads
59. "Victim" by Bootcamp
60. "Tonight's the Night" by Rod Stewart
61. "Cruel to Be Kind" by Nick Lowe
Yeah, but yours has turned out very differently. Who knew you would be breezily posting away again now? I for one thank every available star for your return. :-*
Elle also said I should post here to say that I'm one of the good things that happened in 1968. ::) :)
I see so many old favorites of mine in there! Really takes me back!! ; 8)
So much excellent music that has stood the test of time...still hummable after 40 years! And so many wonderful movies and good art, plays, musicals, and comedy. We thought it would be that way for the rest of our lives. Then, what happened? What changed to degrade the quality of our art and culture? I'm mystified. . .
So much excellent music that has stood the test of time...still hummable after 40 years! And so many wonderful movies and good art, plays, musicals, and comedy. We thought it would be that way for the rest of our lives. Then, what happened? What changed to degrade the quality of our art and culture? I'm mystified. . .