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Originally posted by BocaBum99
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Why don't you go ask Alice? I think she'll know.“Maybe you shouldn't dress like that.”
“This is a blouse and skirt. I don't know what you're talking about.”
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Steve, me being a soccer fan, I couldn't resist posting one of the sport's more popular complicated song lyrics:
"O-le', ole', ole', ole'. O-le'. O-le'." Repeat.
Mike
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Why don't you go ask Alice? I think she'll know.
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If God had wanted man to play soccer, He wouldn't have given us arms.
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"heal the sick, raise the dead, and make the little girls talk out of their head"Originally posted by Beaglemom3
I think that's a Johnny Rivers line.Sandcrab
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. --Mark Twain
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Now you're getting into genres I know better than pregnant bellied guys. It's a Willie Dixon line.Originally posted by Sandcrab"heal the sick, raise the dead, and make the little girls talk out of their head"
I think that's a Johnny Rivers line.
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Seventh Son is an old blues song composed by the great Willie Dixon. Willie did a lot of stuff that first appeared on the immortal Chess label. Some of his other classics include Smokestack Lightning, Spoonful, Hoochie Coochie Man, Little Red Rooster, Wang Dang Doodle, I Just Want to Make Love to You, Back Door Man. I'm Ready.
The Chess Label - including Willie's stuff - had a profound influence on both the Beatles and Rolling Stones. The "British Invasion" was founded on British rockers adapting American blues to a rock format, retaining a lot of the edge and energy. When that music collided with most of the pablum that was passing for Top 40 music in the US - including songs about an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini - the result was inevitable.
Being a teen-ager at that time, I know I related a lot more to an redone blues songs like this than I did to Paul and Paula. (Compare this version of Mercy, Mercy with that Stones sample and you can really hear how much the blues influenced groups like the Beatles and the Stones.)
I think Willie Mabon's version was one of the first recordings of Seventh Son. Here's Willie doing it himself. Peggy Lee had a popular cover of it. So Did Mose Allison. Sly funked it. And Long John Baldry boogied it (probably my favorite cover).“Maybe you shouldn't dress like that.”
“This is a blouse and skirt. I don't know what you're talking about.”
“You shouldn't wear that body.”Comment
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Well, I also was a teenager in the 60's and there was no blues available in midwestern MN.
You had pop/top 40 or pop a top country. Paul and Paula were damned near "cutting edge."
They didn't even play Motown in our area. First heard that in late 67 when I began my adventures with the USAF.
Well as Crystal Gale would say: "Donuts make my brown eyes blue.Sandcrab
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I know what you mean, having also been a teenager in Minnesota in the 1960's. The black population in the Twin Cities was so small that there wasn't even a 24-hour soul music station - the soul station was a 500 watt station that went off the air at sunset. And even then they programmed music for only about half the broadcast day.Originally posted by Sandcrab View PostWell, I also was a teenager in the 60's and there was no blues available in midwestern MN. You had pop/top 40 or pop a top country. Paul and Paula were damned near "cutting edge." They didn't even play Motown in our area. First heard that in late 67 when I began my adventures with the USAF.
Well as Crystal Gale would say: "Donuts make my brown eyes blue".:rolleyes:
But I have to say that even - in pre-Motown days - I was partial to artists like early Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis that were black-influenced. But at that age all I knew was that I liked it; didn't know it was because they were more tapped into "roots". Then when groups like the Beatles, Stones, Animals, and Yardbirds hit, I thought it nirvana.
My earliest Motown memories are probably the Supremes and the Temptations - as I recall, Jim Dandy at WDGY added them the playlist about 1966. KDWB picked them up about the same time.
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The church my family attended was on 92nd and Lyndale in Bloomington, only about a mile from the WDGY 50,000 watt transmission towers. I remember that the PA system often picked up WDGY; it was amusing to hear traces of Top 40 music coming through the speakers during the pauses in the service.“Maybe you shouldn't dress like that.”
“This is a blouse and skirt. I don't know what you're talking about.”
“You shouldn't wear that body.”Comment
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Boca,
Have you ever started a thread that got this derailed???
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It's not derailed - it's more like a bow on a package. It starts from the center, goes off in a different direction, but soon loops around and comes right back to the girl in yellow polka dot polka. Then it goes out and makes another loop, then another, and another.Originally posted by Glitter View PostBoca,
Have you ever started a thread that got this derailed???
But it always keeps coming back to where it all started, that girl in the bikini. And I'm sure that during one of those sermons we must have also learned about that bikini.“Maybe you shouldn't dress like that.”
“This is a blouse and skirt. I don't know what you're talking about.”
“You shouldn't wear that body.”Comment
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Originally posted by Glitter View PostBoca,
Have you ever started a thread that got this derailed???
lol. I think I have personally derailed threads this badly. I am just amused at how much legs this thread has. I didn't think it would go more than 3 or 4 posts.
We can really get it going if we somehow get points and weeks and rci rental and cross over grids into the discussion.
Actually, wasn't Jackson Browne of the the original points owners? Wasn't he hitchhiking to Sedona to attend a TS presentation at Los Abrigados?Comment
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Why are they called polka dots? Did they originate in Wisconsin or Pennsylvania???
Sandcrab
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. --Mark TwainComment
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The song that describes me right now is: They're coming to take me away, ha ha, they're coming to take me away, hee hee ha ha to the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time , etc. shaggyComment
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Do you know what was onthe flip side of that record?Originally posted by shaggy View Post
Sandcrab
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If memory serves, thanks to late nights listening to Dr. Demento, wasn't it the reverse/backward version ? It was entitled, "VIX neolopaN" or similar ?Originally posted by SandcrabDo you know what was onthe flip side of that record?
My sister had the 45 and can't remember, but I have a faint recollection.
Remember when you ran away
And I got on my knees
And begged you not to leave
Because I'd go berserk?
Well. . .
You left me anyhow
And then the days got worse and worse
And now you see I've gone
Completely out of my mind
And. . .
They're coming to take me away, HA HA
They're coming to take me away, HO HO HEE HEE HA HA
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see
Those nice, young men
In their clean, white coats
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!
You thought it was a joke
And so you laughed
You laughed when I had said
That losing you would make me flip my lid
Right. . .
You know you laughed, I heard you laugh
You laughed, you laughed and laughed
And then you left
But now you know I'm utterly mad!
And. . .
I cooked your food
I cleaned your house
And this is how you pay me back
For all my kind, unselfish loving deeds?!!
Hah. . .
Well you just wait
They'll find you yet
And when they do they'll
Put you in the ASPCA, you mangy mutt!
And. . .
They're coming to take me away, HA HA
They're coming to take me away, HO HO HEE HEE HA HA
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see
Those nice, young men
In their clean, white coats
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!Comment
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I believe you are correct Dr Demento.Sandcrab
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. --Mark TwainComment
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