MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Averaged over the past week, Janitor Joe is at V = 202 and C = 0.59.
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Great bass intro on this one:
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Averaged over the past week, Janitor Joe is at V = 232 and C = 0.68.
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It was done with a Moog on the record, but in this Sesame Street performance (yes, you heard that right) it was a real bass guitar:
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This song has perhaps the head-boppingest bass intro ever:
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Yes, Tim, I do believe they’re the most happily married celebrity couple I’ve ever seen. It’s clear that they still adore each other after more than 50 years together.
That song is a really powerful representation of the most beautiful aspirations of 60’s idealism as I see it. And of course they had several other moving songs. One of my guilty pleasures is singing along in my best falsetto to Wedding Bell Blues.
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Looking forward to it, Tom!
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Jung, you’ve reminded me of an idea I had a couple of years ago. Whenever one of us is within shouting distance of another club member, the two should get together for lunch or something, take a picture, and post it here in the club. Maybe MLT would even set up a dedicated photo gallery.
I imagine most of us haven’t ever spoken with another member in person. The opportunity for a real-time conversation would be exhilarating, and we certainly wouldn’t struggle to find a topic to discuss. And seeing the photos would deepen everyone’s sense of club membership.
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The story of how The Fifth Dimension ended up recording Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In is one of the most bizarre in the history of music:
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I love that song, and that group, Tim! Joe Osborn also played bass on the Mamas & Papas cover I posted above.
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Hey, JP!
Yeah, I’m pretty sure I first heard Wildfire (just that single word, of course) on one of those record commercials. Did you know that in 1964 Michael Martin Murphey was in a group with Michael Nesmith? That connection ultimately led to him writing a few songs that were recorded by the Monkees, most notably What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘Round.
Lucky Charms was, and still is, the best!
Ah, K-Tel records! When I was in college I schemed about forming a band called Much Much More, and then suing K-Tel for falsely claiming that our songs were on their albums.
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Count me among the young kids who were influenced by this performance! I honestly didn’t recall him doing Superstition at the time — it probably flew right over my little seven-year-old head — but I definitely remember that second song. I had no idea who he was, but for years I called him “that guy with the robot voice”.
Yeah, Sesame Street and the Electric Company introduced my generation to so many genres of music at a very young age, and to this day I’m still grateful to the Children’s Television Workshop for their cultural investment in my childhood.
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I’ve experienced the same arc of emotions as you with regard to disco, Tim. But I was just a kid when it hit, and I had nothing to fall back on. My favorite songs in the 70’s were the small fragments that they played on TV commercials for “greatest hits” albums from the 50’s and 60’s, plus whatever I got to hear on Happy Days (late 50’s / early 60’s) or the Hardy Boys (Shaun Cassidy, who was mostly doing 60’s covers).
Fortunately, Stayin’ Alive didn’t really root itself in my head until it was featured in the “Airplane!” movie, and that’s where my mind goes when I hear it.
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Bus Stop is listed on my profile as my favorite MLT video. The hilarious sight gags never end. “Employee of Another Month” floors me every time!
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I’ve actually been to Niles! I was visiting a former colleague who lived there and taught at the community college in Benton Harbor.
