Everytime my daughter and I take a road trip this song is played and a sing along ensues, with Grandson numero uno hollaring from the back seat, "Can you just turn that down?!."
This one reminds me of being 23 and going to the Hide-Out with my little sister. I didn't do anything horribly bad, but she could have gotten me in some trouble if she had wanted to.
The first time I ever heard Prince was when I saw him sing this on American Bandstand. I don't think Dick Clark knew quite what to think of him acting like a feral child, and bouncing around in his animal print loin cloth. That's the way I remember it, anyway, I couldn't find the actual video of that performance.
I love, love, love this one.
This is a song for the stalker in all of us.
Ya thought I dint see ya now, dintya.
A woman's gonna do exactly what a woman's gonna. So he says.
Dirty Little Boys.
Too ra loo rye aye. (Another road trip karaoke selection.)
The Christmas when I was in 6th grade I got a portable 8 track player and 3 tapes, Bobby Sherman, Elvis Presley and CCR. The middle of this song hit where you had to manually switch to the next channel.
Corny, campy, and it's got my name in it. Hush yer mouth you said too much already. That's how I feel everytime I blog.
I have a whole repertoire of songs I listen to when I'm sad, which only results in making me sadder. I'm working on a list of songs that make for a better mood.
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Good songs.
The Christmas when I was in 6th grade I got a portable 8 track player and 3 tapes, Bobby Sherman, Elvis Presley and CCR.
Very sweet memory dear. I remember about the same age finding a 'score' of boxes of 8 track tapes at a yard sale. CCR was one of the finds. I flat wore some of thme out. There's a woman in the metroplex who still makes 8 track recordings and Cheap Trick is using her for greatest hits release to use an 8 track tape as a bonus deal.
OLD songs Rain...I'm getting old.
Chup, see, I learned something today. You're old enough to know what 8 tracks were.
When I was a kid, I just thought Melanie's song was about some roller skates, but as I got older I figured out there was a sexual metaphor in there. Or am I reading too much into it?
Yeah, funny how the programmers could never quite balance out the four program channels on 8-tracks without the "ker-chunk" in the middle of one of the [usually better] songs. I think I still have a home 8-track player out in the garage (heck, if you saw my garage, you'd think Jimmy Hoffa might be out there, too.) :-(
CCR rocks! I was disappointed at a social function recently, when other guests could not name the members of CCR, and they were older than me. My uncle introduced me to their music in about '72 or '73. On a trip to East Texas a couple of years ago, I had my oldest son take my picture next to a city limit sign for 'Lodi'.
Just because.
Doolin' Donald, I don't think you read too much into the lyrics of that song. Sometimes when I hear an old song, or watch old television shows I am surprised at how liberal the lyrics and jokes were way back then.
I am now ashamed to say I only know the name of one person in CCR. These days when one mentions CCR it's very likely others would think it was a reference to Cross Canadian Ragweed rather than Creedence Clearwater Revival, at least in TX and OK.
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