Summer of Love Music

[Dutra]

I date the start of bubble gum to Yummy, Yummy (i got love in my tummy) in '68.

That is indeed Classic BG ("Sugar, Sugar" being the archetype), but I submit the lyrics of SHT:

Imagine me and you, I do
I think about you day and night, it's only right
To think about the girl you love and hold her tight
So happy together

If I should call you up, invest a dime
And you say you belong to me and ease my mind
Imagine how the world could be, so very fine
So happy together

I can't see me lovin' nobody but you
For all my life
When you're with me, baby the skies'll be blue
For all my life

Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it has to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together

I can't see me lovin' nobody but you
For all my life
When you're with me, baby the skies'll be blue
For all my life

Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it has to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together

Ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba
Ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba

Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it has to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together

So happy together
How is the weather
So happy together
We're happy together
So happy together
Happy together
So happy together
So happy together (ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba)

The Prosecution rests.

I've read that The Turtles recorded a lot of their "bubble gum" music as a facetious response to "real" bubble gum music.

Besides that....what's wrong with bubble gum music? The Flourescent Leech would not be happy.

[tafnut]

what's wrong with bubble gum music?

[more pirate youtube removed; get a clue will ya!]

[bad hammy]

I believe that is a different song- the one we are talking about was written by O'kelly Isley and covered by he Human Beinz. His is a Blues tune does not boast of prowess in the Boogaloo!!

Same song: http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop- ... 04-4767857

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sq ... fwxq95ldhe

[tandfman]

Count the no's? No, thank you. I'll just stick with Nobody Does It Better. Wrong year, but great song.

[guru]

Check out Mick and the boys covering Otis Redding's That's How Strong My Love Is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsRbt9t-i7A&NR

Hmm, double standard alert.

[if you can prove that operates outside of copyright restriction, feel free to post again; otherwise, you know (way) better]

http://mb.trackandfieldnews.com/discuss ... hp?t=26511

[wineturtle]

Hit the road JACK!! And don't come back no more,no more.....

http://publications.mediapost.com/index ... _aid=63620

Looks like WCBS FM is being unJACKED, Wayne b from jersey alerts us to the story.
Holly Levis left CBS as Jack PD last week to join WALK 97.5 in an on-air slot.
Who returns? I'd like to see Joe McCoy back as PD.Norm N. Nite on the air again in NYC would be wonderful also.


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[kuha]

For a truly fascinating look at what ELSE was happening in that general period, see:

-Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelia Era, 1965-1968
and
-Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond, 1964-1969

Both are 4-CD sets. Not every cut is a total winner, but there's great stuff here that you've either never heard and/or have completely forgotten.

Out of the 4-CD Psychedelia set, I found these worthy of putting on my iPod:

I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night 3:00 The Electric Prunes
Dirty Water 2:48 Standells
Night Time 2:32 The Strangeloves
Lies 2:44 Knickerbockers
Psychotic Reaction 3:07 The Count Five
Baby Please Don't Go 5:39 Amboy Dukes
Tobacco Road 4:42 The Blues Magoos
No Time Like The Right Time 2:47 The Blues Project
Oh Yeah 2:49 Shadows Of Knight
Hey Joe 2:51 The Leaves
Talk Talk 1:59 The Music Machine
Nobody But Me 2:19 Human Beinz
Incense and Peppermints 2:50 Strawberry Alarm Clock
Time Won't Let Me 2:50 The Outsiders
Laugh, Laugh 2:54 The Beau Brummels
Shape of Things to Come 1:54 Max Frost & The Troopers
Who Do You Love 2:04 The Woolies
Little Girl 2:29 Syndicate Of Sound
(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet 2:18 The Blues Magoos
Shape Of Things To Come 1:54 Max Frost & The Troopers
Fight Fire 2:34 The Golliwogs
She's About A Mover 2:25 Sir Douglas Quintet
I Need You 2:16 The Rationals
Psycho 2:17 The Sonics
Story Of My Life 2:44 Unrelated Segments
Journey To The Center Of The Mind 3:34 The Amboy Dukes
Blues' Theme 2:10 Davie Allan &The Arrows
The Witch 2:40 Sonics

I like alot of those, too, but also really like some of the other (and possibly weirder) things like:
-You Must be a Witch--Lollipop Shoppe (!)
-I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time--The Third Bardo
-Optical Sound--Human Expression
etc.

7 and 7 Is--Love is simply amazing, and Going All the Way--The Squires, is the greatest pop song that (basically) no one's ever heard. The latter was a one-hit wonder group from CT, where I grew up. I now remember liking it back then, but hadn't heard it even once between ca. 1968 and the date I got this CD set a few years ago.

By the way, Davie Allen's recent albums are great fun.

These sets play up the proto-punk and garage sound of the day, which I'm particularly interested in...

[tafnut]

Going All the Way--The Squires, is the greatest pop song that (basically) no one's ever heard.

Just found that on-line (some radio station's playlist) and just listened to it. I almost sorta/kinda remember it, but not really. Very cool song, though. Thanks! Louie, Louie was the #1 garageband song.