Author Topic: Post your teenage crushes... don't be shy!  (Read 154573 times)

Offline Jeff Wrangler

  • BetterMost Supporter!
  • The BetterMost 10,000 Post Club
  • *****
  • Posts: 31,165
  • "He somebody you cowboy'd with?"
Re: Post your teenage crushes... don't be shy!
« Reply #230 on: February 12, 2007, 12:18:21 am »
Oh, my gosh, Katherine, you sure did your homework on a Sunday!  :o  ;D

Asa Mercer. That was it! That was what I remembered from my genealogy days.

As for the theme song, believe it or not, it was "Like a beautiful child, growing up free and wild" that escaped my memory. The rest of the first verse I remembered.

While I don't question your research, I'm not always prepared to trust lyric web sites implicitly.

"Some set pine trees in the air" makes no sense to me. My memory--which we've established is not always reliable  ;D--is that the line should be "Scent of pine trees in the air." But then maybe all those years ago my ears just heard what made sense to my mind, if you follow me.  :-\

In any case, my memory of those two lines is:

Scent of pine trees in the air
Don't just stand around and stare

The "stand around and stare" doesn't give me a memory problem, but I don't have complete confidence in the "Don't just" part.

Oh, yeah, my memory also gives that next-to-last line of the first stanza as:

"Full of dreams to last the years"

But, again, maybe the ears heard what made sense to the mind.

Anyway, thanks for digging this up, and the information about the Mercer Girls. Props to you for your investigative skills!  :D
"It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide."--Charles Dickens.

Offline saucycobblers

  • BetterMost 1000+ Posts Club
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,268
  • Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.
Re: Post your teenage crushes... don't be shy!
« Reply #231 on: February 12, 2007, 09:33:31 am »
and can't identify that other guy in the picture, either.

That's someone called Steve Lodge apparently. Here's the link to the page with more backstage photos.

http://employees.oxy.edu/jerry/bts/hctb.htm
Will you stop playing with that radio of yours, I'm trying to get to sleep!

Offline oilgun

  • BetterMost 1000+ Posts Club
  • ******
  • Posts: 3,564
Re: Post your teenage crushes... don't be shy!
« Reply #232 on: March 27, 2007, 10:30:47 pm »
My biggest teenage crush was Cat Stevens.  God I loved him and his music!  I had a collection of t-shirts with his picture on them, my favourite being the one below:

 
« Last Edit: April 06, 2007, 01:16:46 pm by oilgun »

Offline brokebackjack

  • BetterMost Supporter!
  • Brokeback Got Me Good
  • *****
  • Posts: 817
Re: Post your teenage crushes... don't be shy!
« Reply #233 on: April 05, 2007, 10:04:53 am »
As a teenager I had two, Catherine Deneuve and John Travolta.

Used to have this really cool fantasy about the 3 of us getting it on in the back of a pickup truck in some isolated area <g>
"I couldn't stand it no more so i fixed it"

Offline Ellemeno

  • The BetterMost 10,000 Post Club
  • ********
  • Posts: 15,367
Re: Post your teenage crushes... don't be shy!
« Reply #234 on: April 06, 2007, 03:35:29 am »
All of them (but mostly John and George)




Marlo Thomas as That Girl




The Mod Squad, all of them (but mostly Pete)




The Courtship of Eddie's Father, both of them


Online serious crayons

  • BetterMost Moderator
  • The BetterMost 10,000 Post Club
  • *****
  • Posts: 22,712
Re: Post your teenage crushes... don't be shy!
« Reply #235 on: April 06, 2007, 11:22:51 am »
Ditto, Elle! Especially George and Pete. One summer a house down the street went up for sale and I dreamed of George Harrison moving into it. Do you suppose he ever went house-hunting in suburban Minneapolis? And if so, might he be interested in an early 1960s rambler?

I was going to mention Pete from the Mod Squad a while back. Julie, too -- though in her case it was less a crush than I just wanted to BE her. Or at least, have her hair.




Offline Ellemeno

  • The BetterMost 10,000 Post Club
  • ********
  • Posts: 15,367
Re: Post your teenage crushes... don't be shy!
« Reply #236 on: April 06, 2007, 01:41:58 pm »
Ditto, Elle! Especially George and Pete. One summer a house down the street went up for sale and I dreamed of George Harrison moving into it. Do you suppose he ever went house-hunting in suburban Minneapolis? And if so, might he be interested in an early 1960s rambler?

I was going to mention Pete from the Mod Squad a while back. Julie, too -- though in her case it was less a crush than I just wanted to BE her. Or at least, have her hair.



See, that's what I noticed last night as I was poking around the internet, looking at lists of 1969-1974 TV shows, trying to jog my memory.  Most of the ones I found, when I first thought about posting them, I then realized it wasn't really a crush, it was a "want to be" them.  Or kind of mixed together.  Crush/be them, or know them. 


Though Chad Everett, as Doctor Joe Gannon on Medical Center - I didn't want to BE him, that WAS pre-teen lust.  I haven't found a good picture of him yet, that represents my mind's eye of him.

« Last Edit: April 06, 2007, 01:46:27 pm by Ellemeno »

Offline Ellemeno

  • The BetterMost 10,000 Post Club
  • ********
  • Posts: 15,367
Re: Post your teenage crushes... don't be shy!
« Reply #237 on: April 06, 2007, 01:49:35 pm »
Chad Everett today, even handsomer than he was in the early 1970s


Offline brokebackjack

  • BetterMost Supporter!
  • Brokeback Got Me Good
  • *****
  • Posts: 817
Re: Post your teenage crushes... don't be shy!
« Reply #238 on: April 06, 2007, 06:20:19 pm »
Chad Everett??

I still like my own bi teens fantasy of me, Travolta and Deneuve in the back of a pickup truck on a remote hill LOL

"I couldn't stand it no more so i fixed it"

Offline Cameron

  • BetterMost Supporter!
  • BetterMost 1000+ Posts Club
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,747
Re: Post your teenage crushes... don't be shy!
« Reply #239 on: April 06, 2007, 06:36:45 pm »

The Courtship of Eddie's Father, both of them



I remember this and I loved it, but I wasn't really allowed to watch it because it "wasn't for kids".  But I did.

It was on Saturday nights, with Bob Newhart, and Mary Tyler Moore, I believe. :)