MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Even the Monkees tripped out once in a while. These three songs were all written by group member Mike Nesmith:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7rphYKTmI8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCWRjWOowkc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80dnoJZqYgE
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Welcome to the club, Lance!
I live two hours south of you, near Greensboro. I’ve visited Roanoke several times. Once I even drove up Mill Mountain to see the “star” up close.
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Thank you, Brian!
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The happiest of all Christmases to team MLT! Our days are merry and bright because of the path that they have chosen to follow.
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Thanks for posting these, Howard!
To me, as a kid in the 70’s, all these things were just part of normal reality, as I had no context for discriminating between a passing fad and a permanent part of the culture. No wonder I ended up so warped.
I was happy to see a brief glimpse of my favorite childhood TV show, “The Electric Company”, at the end of each video, with Rita Moreno as the little girl with the cotton candy, and Morgan Freeman as the disc jockey.
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Thanks, Jung. I nearly left that one off the list because it’s quite a stretch to call it a rock song, but I couldn’t stand the idea of Puff being abandoned yet again.
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The greatest rock song of all time? That’s easy: “Pink Shoelaces” by Dodie Stevens. (Just kidding. But that’s my current earworm, and I’m desperate to transfer it into someone else’s head.)
I’ve never actually tried to compile a top ten, so this one will likely change substantially by tomorrow as I think of obvious candidates that I omitted. But taking “greatest” to mean just the songs I most enjoy listening to, here’s my list at the moment.
1) “California Dreamin'” by The Mamas & Papas
2) “Good Vibrations” by The Beach Boys
3) “One Fine Day” by The Chiffons
4) “If I Fell” by The Beatles
5) “Puff the Magic Dragon” by Peter, Paul & Mary
6) “Elenore” by The Turtles
7) “Undun” by The Guess Who
8) “Build Me Up Buttercup” by The Foundations
9) “How Can I Be Sure” by The Young Rascals
10) “Spinning Wheel” by Blood, Sweat & Tears
My favorite MLT song is “Sweet Lorraine”, but honestly I think it would fall somewhere in my second ten.
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The Guess Who are amazing! Besides the songs Jung mentioned, there’s Laughing, Undun, No Time, and No Sugar Tonight. I fell in love with each of these songs separately, not knowing at the time that they weren’t all by different groups.
I just read on Wikipedia about how they got their name:
That year [1965] the band produced their first hit, a 1965 rendition of Johnny Kidd & the Pirates’ “Shakin’ All Over”. Quality Records credited the single only to “Guess Who?” in an attempt to build a mystique around the record — and very specifically, to help create an impression that the record was recorded by an already-successful British band (perhaps even The Beatles) working incognito. After Quality Records revealed the band to be the Canadian act Chad Allan & The Expressions, disc jockeys continued to announce the group as Guess Who?, effectively forcing the band to accept the new name.
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How about this Dylan cover by a trio of female 60’s superstars?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEZFt5ZZj9s
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Nifty photo, Howard! All it lacks is a Beatle just beyond the blue car, facing away from the camera.
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Hmmm… In the U.S., little kids learn the alphabet by singing it to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”, and Z is rhymed with V in the verse. Is that just not a thing in Canada and Australia? (And the U.K., for that matter.)
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Interesting article, Howard! Everyone talks about how the music of the 60’s changed the culture, but I think the rock-and-roll revolution of the 50’s may have been even more profound in some ways.
That reminds me of this classic Stan Freberg recording from 1960:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhWnebZ2ZlU
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Well, in the U.S. “zed” reeks of an era of colonial imperialism. We fought a war just so that Jewel Akens could have his little rhyme someday.
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Hey, Jung. I probably overheard a lot of Fleetwood Mac back in the day, but as a musical anti-conformist I didn’t make any effort to learn who played what. I’ve been catching up in recent years, in large part due to my wife, who is a big Fleetwood Mac fan.
How about in Canada? “Zee” or “zed”?
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Good one, Howard! That brings a question to mind: in Australia is Z pronounced “zee” or “zed”?
I hadn’t been aware of this one, but Fleetwood Mac did a song called “Brown Eyes” in 1979.
