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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat was your most memorable song your last year in high school?
Here's mine.
madamesilverspurs
(15,811 posts)And our 50th reunion is this weekend.
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pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)We had an abundance of musical riches in those days. I remember cruising with my buddy with songs like 'Gloria' and 'In the Midnight Hour' playing loud on the radio.
I finally got to see The Mamas & The Papas perform. After seeing the Beach Boys play on the National Mall in D.C. for Independence Day a bunch of times, I was pissed when Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, ended that.
Instead, they started having a variety of performances at multiple venues throughout the area, and the first year they did that The Mamas & the Papas played to a couple dozen of us in the parking lot of RFK Stadium. Cass was gone and Michelle wasn't around, so Spanky of Spanky & Our Gang filled in for Cass and Michelle's daughter, McKenzie, filled in for her.
It was so good that my wife and I stayed there for both shows.
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)It was uncanny - Before that, glitzy lightweight pop ruled the roost. MC Hammer, Paula Abdul, Madonna, that sort of stuff. The more dedicated metalheads knew about Soundgarden, but most of the popular hard rock was that overproduced glam metal like Poison and Warrant.
Nevermind dropped in the fall of my seinor year, and almost overnight, the metalheads started cutting their hair, the preppy kids started growing theirs, and everybody started dressing like hobos and pretending that they had been listening to The Replacements and The Minutemen all along.
kairos12
(12,882 posts)teenage son crazy.
Arkansas Granny
(31,536 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,527 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)BILLBOARD (USA) MAGAZINE'S SINGLES CHART FOR WEEK OF:June 3,1967
TW LW Wks. Song-Artist
1 2 6 RESPECT----ARETHA FRANKLIN
2 1 7 GROOVIN'---Young Rascals
3 3 9 I GOT RHYTHM---Happenings
4 4 9 RELEASE ME---Engelbert Humperdinck
5 8 6 CREEQUE ALLEY---Mamas & the Papas
6 7 6 HIM OR ME:WHAT'S IT GONNA BE---Paul Revere and the Raiders
7 5 9 THE HAPPENING---Supremes
8 6 13 SWEET SOUL MUSIC---Arthur Conley
9 17 10 SOMEBODY TO LOVE---Jefferson Airplane
10 15 6 ALL I NEED---Temptations
11 14 6 MIRAGE---Tommy James and the Shondells
12 10 9 GIRL YOU'LL BE A WOMAN SOON---Neil Diamond
13 13 9 HERE COMES MY BABY---The Tremeloes
14 39 4 SHE'D RATHER BE WITH ME---The Turtles
15 11 12 ON A CAROUSEL---Hollies
16 9 11 SOMETHIN' STUPID---Frank & Nancy Sinatra
17 40 4 LITTLE BIT O'SOUL---Music Explosion
18 16 12 FRIDAY ON MY MIND---Easybeats
19 30 6 SIX O'CLOCK---Lovin' Spoonful
20 21 6 I WAS KAISER BILL'S BATMAN---Whistling Jack Smith
http://hitsofalldecades.com/chart_hits/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1997&Itemid=52
rurallib
(62,465 posts)around graduation. That seemed to overpower everything.
50 years later my memory could be quite faulty
That list of yours really brings back some memories except for the last two
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)kairos12
(12,882 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)Ah yes, the music, the music..
sends me right back
AllenVanAllen
(3,134 posts)it's was 87...the year i discovered listener sponsored, alternative radio. i had no idea so much great music was there all along.
and there was this
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)They opened for Jethro Tull.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)1972
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)Masters of War and Talking World War III Blues.
greendog
(3,127 posts)ABBA had "Dancing Queen"
Bob Seger had "Night Moves"
The Eagles had "Hotel California"
"Muskrat Love" was a big hit.
Leo Sayer had "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"
Music started to get more interesting in '78 with newcomers like Dire Straits and Elvis Costello.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,222 posts)Blondie, the Ramones. The late 70s was much better than the mid 70s.
greendog
(3,127 posts)Dylan, Springsteen, and Led Zep had some interesting stuff that I still listen to on occasion.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)LWolf
(46,179 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,222 posts)Or this
And in hind sight, this
But 1975 was a weird year for music though. Disco was starting up and the number one single was "Love will keep us together" by Captain and Tenille!
But my friends and I were listening to bands that got their start in the 60s; the Stones, Zeppelin, the Who, Velvet Underground. It was the AOR heyday (album oriented rock) where you could call in and get them to play ANY TRACK! I miss that.
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megahertz
(126 posts)Still hard to find some official Prince videos online, but this is nice. I saw him on his 2004 Musicology tour - phenomenal.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)lastlib
(23,329 posts)That'll give me nightmares.
I LOATHE disco.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)In 1970-71 I was in an Army hospital in San Francisco watching the protesters at the gates.
What a long strange trip it's been!
rug
(82,333 posts)I never made it out there but I did meet A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada that year at his first storefront in Manhattan.
https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130903/east-village/worlds-first-hare-krishna-temple-goes-back-time-honor-founder
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)...in the Palms neighborhood of L.A., next to Culver City. They came by the house a couple of times, and I walked over to the temple to check it out. I saw a bunch of young people searching for a sense of identity who wound up there only because the Krishnas got them before something else did.
With both the senior devotees and the new ones, if I tried to discuss anything with them all they did was parrot memorized lines from their leaders and their tracts. I was not impressed.
In those days, they stationed devotees at LAX with a pie. When you walked past them in the airport, they'd hand you the pie and begin their spiel. If you tried to return their pie, they wouldn't take it, so some were stuck listening to them. I immediately put the pie on the floor and walked away.
rug
(82,333 posts)Great vegetarian food, interesting people. And chanting.
I only went once, to their temple in Brooklyn. I had a handful of food and was talking to one of the devotees. I asked him about the reasons for vegetarian food and he told me about how every living thing was a soul. So I asked him about the bacteria on the carrot I was eating. His Brooklyn accent came back in a flash and he said, "You have to draw the line somewhere."
Yes, they served me food on my visit, and also gifted me a book, so there was no way I couldn't give them a small contribution (which I did).
The food came from their onsite garden, which the new. young devotees tended. Being in L.A., our temple was a major player, operating an off-site incense factory which was a big and profitable business for them.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,664 posts)That was not his real name, and is this ever a long story. There used to be someone at the local history room of the Alexandria Library who was well-versed in this subject.
"Scott McKenzie" spent his high school years in Alexandria, Virginia. I was on the street on which he lived on Saturday. He lived a few blocks from where Jim Morrison lived.
....
According to Michelle, "Tamar put on perfect airs around my dad and when it became necessary she would sleep with him." Whatever works, I guess. That perhaps explains why, in early 1961, Gil didn't have a problem with allowing his underage daughter to move to San Francisco with the daughter of a violent pedophile. Soon enough, Tamar found herself in a relationship with Journeyman Scott McKenzie, and bandmate John Phillips began coming by Tamar and Michelle's room on a nightly basis.
It wasn't long before Michelle, still just seventeen, was romantically involved with twenty-six-year-old Phillips, despite the fact that John was still married to Adams, with whom he by then had two children, Laura MacKenzie Phillips having been born on November 10, 1959 in Alexandria. Father Gil, who had himself recently taken a sixteen-year-old bride (one of a string of six wives), still wasn't concerned. And it's probably safe to assume that Phillip's father, who had pursued his bride when she was just fifteen, wouldn't have been too concerned either.
In October 1962, a year or so after meeting Michelle, John curiously found himself in Jacksonville, Florida (alongside Naval Air Station Jacksonville and Naval Station Mayport) for "two weeks of rest and rehearsal" during the Cuban Missile Crisis. For a guy who "never felt comfortable with political advocacy," John seems to have had a keen interest in Cuban affairs. Two months later, on New Years Eve 1962, Holly Michelle Gilliam became John Phillip's second wife. She also joined his reconfigured band, as did Canadian Denny Doherty, who had formerly been with the Mugwumps alongside Cass Elliot. This new lineup was dubbed the New Journeymen.
The newly-formed trio promptly embarked on a curious Caribbean adventure, arriving first at St. Johns, where John has claimed that they "snorkeled on acid" for several weeks. They next ferried over to St. Thomas, where they set up camp at a dive beachfront boardinghouse known as Duffy's. Soon enough, Ellen Naomi Cohen, better known as Cass Elliot, showed up with John's nephew, who was a childhood friend of hers. Cass had been born in Baltimore but had grown up in Alexandria, where, like Phillips, she had attended George Washington High School.
By David Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 24, 2006
....
This morning Opsasnick is driving down a winding street in Alexandria. Anybody else would have seen just the tall oaks and blooming crape myrtles shading neat Tudors and Colonials. Opsasnick looks more deeply and sees something that isn't here anymore.
"We're entering Morrison country," he says dramatically, like a tour guide to a secret landscape. "These are the streets he walked on, these are the fields he played on, the sidewalks he traveled to visit his friends." ... That would be Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors.
"There's his girlfriend's house where he went around back and threw pebbles up to her window to get her to come out," Opsasnick continues. "Here is the corner where he would hold court and act crazy. . . . I can almost visualize a teenage Morrison shuffling from his house." ... The house is a stone-fronted Cape Cod in the 300 block of Woodland Terrace. Opsasnick started with the relatively well-known fact that Morrison lived here from the middle of his sophomore year through graduation from George Washington High School in 1961. Then he gave his subject the full Opsasnick treatment: He investigated those 32 months as if they involved the birth of the nation or the fate of the Earth.
The resulting brand-new opus -- "The Lizard King Was Here: The Life and Times of Jim Morrison in Alexandria, Virginia" -- fits well with the other five volumes that make up the author's investigations: another encyclopedic search-and-rescue mission down offbeat byways of the local past.
Alexandria Times, February 4, 2016
One of the iconic songs of the counterculture movement in the 1960s was sung by Alexandrias Philip Blondheim. Better known as Scott McKenzie, Blondheim sang the vocals to San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair), written by fellow Alexandrian John Phillips.
Born in Jacksonville, Fla. in 1939, Blondheim and his family moved to Asheville, N.C., where his father died a few months after Philips second birthday. His mother moved to Washington, D.C. in early 1942 to find work in the war industries, but she initially couldnt afford an apartment of her own, so Blondheim stayed with his grandmother and other family members until 1946, when he joined his mother in an Alexandria townhouse.
Blondheim and Phillips, who later on gained fame with The Mamas and the Papas, both grew up in Alexandria in the mid-1950s and attended George Washington High School. They sang in separate vocal groups in the mid-1950s and met at a party hosted by Phillips at his apartment on Ramsey Alley. The two formed part of a quartet called The Abstracts, modeled after vocal quartets like The Four Freshmen and the Four Preps.
Alexandria Times, February 11, 2016
At the center of Alexandrias connection to rock and folk music fame was John Phillips. Born in South Carolina, John and his family lived in Del Ray for much of his childhood.
He attended George Washington High School, like Cass Elliot and Jim Morrison, graduating in 1953. He met and then married his high school sweetheart, Susie Adams, with whom he had two children, Jeffrey and Mackenzie, who later became famous in her own right.
Phillips and Adams lived in the Belle Haven area after high school, but John left his young family at their Fairfax County home to start a folk music group called the Journeymen in New York City. The new group included lifelong friend and collaborator Philip Bondheim, later known as Scott McKenzie, also from Del Ray.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)And the only time I saw The Mamas & The Papas was after Cass was gone and Michelle wasn't around, so 'Spanky' from 'Spanky & Our Gang' filled in for Cass and Mackenzie Phillips filled in for Michelle.
R.I.P. Scott McKenzie, Mama Cass and Denny Doherty.
lastlib
(23,329 posts)And, boy, was it ever the truth about my hometown!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I was back from Vietnam, married, and attending USC and I remember it well.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)And their running joke on McGuinn being "Back from Rio."
In later years, I sat in front seeing McGuinn perform solo in a small club. He had some new solo stuff then, but he mostly played the Byrds songs. And he sweated his ass off on his 12-string trying to cover all the parts. He was great! For me, it's like hearing Fogerty doing his CCR songs now. I love it!
And for the young'uns who may have missed it...
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Brothers, etc. Love CCR. Have seen Fogerty several times, and he's still great.
teach1st
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benld74
(9,911 posts)jpak
(41,760 posts)IcyPeas
(21,916 posts)rivegauche
(601 posts)And I pack it for long trips in the car. To me, Layla is one of those very rare perfect albums. Every single cut is brilliant and great.
Glorfindel
(9,739 posts)And, yes, I'm older than dirt...
bikebloke
(5,260 posts)catbyte
(34,485 posts)It came out in July 1972, so we played it a lot during my senior year, 1973.
Number9Dream
(1,564 posts)YvonneCa
(10,117 posts)...Simon and Garfunkel.
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Iggo
(47,578 posts)And "What A Fool Believes" by The Doobie Brothers is the song I remember hearing most over the PA during snack and lunch.
('78/'79)
rivegauche
(601 posts)But I was a Deadhead back then, so popular radio was something I didn't care at all about. It was all Bee Gees and disco stuff. Now I find disco music fun, to be honest. But back then I was such an annoying "disco sucks" rock & roller. I mean, 1978 had some of the most repellent, terrible songs ever! Like Dust in the Fucking Wind! You Light Up my Life! and perhaps the most heinous song of all - Sometimes When We Touch. Can you blame me for constantly doing bong hits as I rocked out to the Dead? No you can't.
retread
(3,764 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,222 posts)Have you ever seen this?
progressoid
(50,000 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)start about :40 in ...
elleng
(131,223 posts)Mendocino
(7,514 posts)Best song that year along with being one of Dylan's best ever.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)12 14 20 22 24 29 30 34 37 39 42 46 50 55 61 64 65 68 74 78 81 85 88 97 100
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1995
1-4 9 10 12 13 18 20 22 23 28 36 37 45 46 51 53 54 57 65 76 86 88 89 93
(hey, I like to be thorough )
malthaussen
(17,217 posts)#1 during the Prom in '73, I remember it playing on the car radio on the way...
"And the colored girls go do do do, do do do..." Lou Reed wouldn't get away with that line now.
-- Mal
Zorro
(15,751 posts)DFW
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surrealAmerican
(11,365 posts)... but you won't be forgetting this:
nutsnberries
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True Dough
(17,339 posts)And when I look through the top 100 from that year it brings back a lot of memories, but much of the music was crap!!!
Among the better tunes: Right Here, Right Now (Jesus Jones), Wind of Change (Scorpions), Crazy (Seal), Losing My Religion (R.E.M) and a guilty pleasure in Good Vibrations (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch).
My pick of the bunch would be this one (and, yes, there was a girl involved, not Helena Christenson though -- I wish!!!):