Oldies that stick in your head...

....Ev’s comment was "...sounds like something from ’65...."

*Gave her The Look*

Cue’d up The Smithereens’ "Behind The Wall Of Sleep"....

"...and so, what’s changed all that much?"

...extra stanzas and solos don’t count, since things aren’t on 45’s as much...I was 14, and in Junior High, a deep dive...*!*

Lets’ hear it....

J

Classic song, 'Behind the Wall of Sleep' - great band, Smithereens....

That disc had a profound effect on me when I first heard it, and I still love it. 

Would that be also oldie?

@larsman , another fav of mine is "Strangers When We Meet" off that LP...
@roxy54 , but which one of the 2 is my ?....;)

@czarivey , *G*  Depends on your age, I'd wager...it's 17 yrs. later on my time scale, and  I was 31 in the Bay Area and already with or about to be 'spoused'...looking for real estate we could afford, probably....🤷‍♂️

Call me an 'oldie' and I'll 'dope slap' you, but all in good fun....*L*

(...we had 2 anniversaries....when we met & when we got 'legal'....

Forgot both, and settled on Val's Day....*LOL*)

Lazy hippie tykes....

I was 15 in 65. That Del Shannons song was a favorite.

@asvjerry It's not about your or mine age it's about the age of the song. It's over 40 years old

@mesch ....then we're contemporaries, and not (perhaps) just contemnor's or contemptuous....*L* ;)

Drilling back and finding this song....blew my mind how short it was.

I guess playing the 45 repeatedly with a 5gram needle kinda bored a dent in ones' synapse....

Early Drain Bamage.....🤪

Noticed last night, there's a musical coda from the song that repeats in the show, towards the end of the episodes,,,,

I have a playlist of oldies for the car. Here’s the first half:

Groovin’ by the Little Rascals

Like to Get to Know You by Spanky and Our Gang

Traces by the Classics IV

Sunny by the Classics IV

Stormy by the Classics IV

Every Day With You Girl by the Classics IV

Spooky by the Atlanta Rhythm Section

Brandy by Looking Glass

Smoke of a Distant Fire by Sanford Townsend Band

More Today Than Yesterday by Spiral Starecase

Waiting on a Friend by The Rolling Stones

Suavecito by Malo

@czarivey *L* Precisely....the fact that it instantly popped up into focus, and I was able to drill to it <5min..... !

"Runaway" (also D. Shannon?) came up afterwards....'falsetto' singing....songs & singers featuring such...."...won't come back from Deadmans' Curve..."

I go this late morning, after waking with 'aching everything' (overhead work previous day) to re-arrange what's left of hair....

I've got "old mans' ears and nose"....my head is shrinking....

....but I started this to assure my id, ego, and whatever's left that I'm not alone in these musical moments of ancient anonomli....

@jwei 👍...that's the spirit.... ;)  Not the 'guilty indulgences', but the...'home cooking', feel good kinda stuff...*S*

Old Stevie Wonder doing a thing with his harmonica to a live audience...It's A Beautiful Day soaring 'White Bird'.... Harry Nielsen's doing almost anything from his earlier stuff...Zappa's "We're Only In It For the Money" parody of Sgt. Pepper...

That which made you smile despite your BGF telling you're not welcome at the door mat no more....no matter what the mood enhancer wuz.......

(Withhold names to protect the guilty....)

Oh, 'ell....the 'indulgences' as well....*L* 

@asvjerry   I appreciate the ears and nose thing. When I call my barber, I am requesting a 'ear cut' however also get a hair cut to leave more on the floor for my money.

Some others from the back half of my oldies car playlist, here including "guilty indulgences":

Oye Como Va by Santana

Riders on the Storm by the Doors

Dreams by Fleetwood Mac

Evil Ways by Santana

Do It Again by Steely Dan

Layla by Derek and the Dominoes

They make my drives a trip down memory lave.

Anything by J Geils band

Redbone-Come and get your love.

Basically, if you grew up during 70's am pop get the soundtrack to the first 'Guardians of the Galaxy" movie.

Anyone around that level of technology ought to have ditched that (those?!) cassettes, dubbed 'em, and stashed them into a 'keepsake' box....

Meanwhile, what would 'umans be listening to 'then', anyway?

Certainly, music ought to have survived....?

If not....I'm not up to 'go there'....unless I get to drag a batch of multi-Tbyte drives with me....;)

Smoke on the Water

Born to be wild

Louie Louie

I want to hold your hand, I saw her standing there, most early Beatles

ah.....Steppen out with the Wolves....

Love it when taken out to play..... ...a little night road music?

Meself, I’d rather be taken out on the MCR.........with some different pilots at the ’trolls.... ;)
If I missed that buss...........snag the next escape....

'cus, Cuz....y'all never know where you'll go unless you hit the switch. :))

Happy '24....caught later(newer) of ....lifeformers....just in time for 12zedx2....

The Turtles - Happy Together

I think I've only heard the song once.  All other times I felt compelled to sing along with it.  I just makes me feel happy.

@audiophileman It does have that infectious ’romp’ to it... *grin*

What became of two members of that group is what fascinates me...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Flo_%26_Eddie_and_the_Turtles

The stint they did with F. Zappa is kinda branded into my brain, they seemed to be having too much fun considering how perfection-oriented Frank could be....

If you haven’t before, jam a bobby pin into your Waaayback device and strain brain watching

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/200_Motels#:~:text=Principal%20scenes%20of%20200%20Motels,Theodore%20Bikel%2C%20and%20Keith%20Moon.

....and a later argument over having a mezzo-soprano singing

"Munchkins get me hot...." with Zubin Mehta, mere rumor or no....

https://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/Zubin_And_The_Mothers

...missed that, living in SF with quarterly returns to LA...

*sigh* Can’t be everywhere...

(More than one) different oldies at different times seem to occupy my head space.

Lately I have been substituting one of the nicknames I use for one of my dogs for the word "Dixie" in "the Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." I’ve been doing the same thing with all three of my dogs names and nicknames with the word "Roland" in "Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner." Actually, for that song, I’ve been changing more words than just that.

Come to think of it, I don’t do it as often, but sometimes I do the same thing with Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. I sing the song using one of my dog’s nick names in place of Maxwell Edison. Actually I think it was that oldy with a previous dog (may he RIP) that got me started doing the same thing with my current three dogs using different oldies.

I like to chase down the brief snippets of the audihistory mine, a synapse flash that demands the rest of it....

a nice extended edit of.... This.....  with the lovely bowed base refrains in both.

The brash blast of guitars opening Something about not forgetting.....lasting long enough to not....

...too many synapse lay in wait....one can only be 'ware.... ;)

Cubby Checker Do the twist, I was a kid and was with my Grandfather at Fort Totten.We were in the canteen and that song was,playing on the juke box.Alot of the GIs were dancing to it ,I mean holding hands and Twisting with each other.. LOL .It had to be like 1961...Crazy but I will always remember the GIs having a good time.

It's funny how Del Shannon's music is considered Oldies, but that of The Beatles isn't. They're both from the 1960's. Actually, Del was still recording into the early-1990's, with Jeff Lynne producing.

I grew up buying 7" 45 RPM singles in the early-60's, and had quite a few before buying my first LP's (lots of instrumental Surf and "Frat" bands. And The Beach Boys). At that time Rock 'n' Roll was considered only music for teenagers, Top 40 songs heard on the radio. Those Pop songs were often written by songwriting teams, for instance those working in the little rooms in the Brill Building in Manhattan (Carole King was one such writer, while still in high school!). Then a record company music producer would pick a singer (or vocal group), arrange for studio time and a group of studio musicians (in L.A. the infamous Wrecking Crew), and endeavour to create a hit song.

There are thousands of them, all with those irresistible melodies and chorus "hooks." If I make the mistake of playing Jackie DeShannon's "When You Walk In The Room" (imo better than the cover version by The Searchers), I have to hear it another dozen times (in a row) before I'm satiated. Same with "I Fought The Law" (written by Sonny Curtis) by The Bobby Fuller Four. The song is so good even The Clash couldn't f*ck it up. 

If you want to hear a killer Pop song that you probably haven't yet heard, one that you just can't get out of your head, try "Maybe" by The Chantels, a Girl Group quintet from the Bronx. Not just a great song, but the lead vocal by Arlene Smith will blow your mind. Dave Edmunds does a fantastic cover of the song on his Subtle As A Flying Mallet album.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UzgpB9xpyT8&si=o1293hwpFiNZhRt7

Never My Love" is a pop standard 1967 recording hit by The Association.

Recorded by dozens of notable artists in the decades since, the music publishing rights organization (BMI) announced it was the second most-played song on radio and television of the 20th century in the U.S.

“Turn, Turn, Turn “ - The Byrds

https://youtu.be/x8wKBJv4zCg?si=6-CaxXW97wLDWtW6

"Turn! Turn! Turn!", also known as or subtitled "To Everything There Is a Season", is a song written by Pete Seeger .

The lyrics – except for the title, which is repeated throughout the song, and the final two lines – consist of the first eight verses of the third chapter of the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes

EVE OF DESTRUCTION - Barry McGuire

https://youtu.be/h-V1t0PLQ2E

A protest song in 1965 that’s an applicable redux of those same or similar fears repeating today in 2024, with chaos in the Middle East, the continuing war in Ukraine, the China threat in the pacific, and threat of nukes.

The song references social issues of its period, including the Vietnam War, the draft, the threat of nuclear war, the Civil Rights Movement, turmoil in the Middle East and the American space program.

The Eastern world, it is explodin'
Violence flarin', bullets loadin'
You're old enough to kill but not for votin'
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'?
And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin'

But you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
How you don't believe
We're on the eve of destruction

Don't you understand what I'm trying to say
Can't you feel the fears I'm feeling today?
If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away
There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave
Take a look around you boy, it's bound to scare you, boy

And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
How you don't believe
We're on the eve of destruction

Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin'
I'm sittin' here just contemplatin'
I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation
Handful of senators don't pass legislation
And marches alone can't bring integration
When human respect is disintegratin'
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin'

And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
How you don't believe
We're on the eve of destruction

And think of all the hate there is in Red China
Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama
Ah, you may leave here for four days in space
But when you return, it's the same old place
The poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace
You can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace
Hate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace

And you tell me
Over and over and over and over again, my friend
You don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
No no, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction

Speaking of Dave Edmunds, I hear you knocking.

Good morning from the Disaster Area....

Woke to my semi-consciousness to 'Downtown' by Pet Clark playing cerebrally which devolved into one of the endless parodies I've giggled at....

This being one that works for this site:

May I suggest that
With that big screen tv set,
You should also own--S'rround Sound
I'm tellin' ya' Hector
To that HD projector
Adds the perfect tone--S'rround Sound
Such realistic gunfire through your woofer, Man, it's heaven!
Neighbors call the cops, report an Ak fourty seven
Don't turn it down..

The whole house is shakin' now
But, just forget all your trebles, and crank up the bass
Y'got S'rround Sound, audio's great with your
S'rround Sound--Vibrating walls occur
S'rround Sound--what a lease breaker for you

Movie enchantment, it's the perfect enhancement
For those DVD's--S'rround Sound
Impress your friends, and show what magic transcends
From these technologies--S'rround Sound
If you're wife gets pissed off and she threatens with divorcin'
Tell the bitch, "Get Lost!" you're watchin' "Citizen Kane" with Orson
Lovin' that sound..

The whole house is shakin' now
But, just forget all your trebles, and crank up that bass
Y'got S'rround Sound, Jet planes sound great with your
S'rround Sound--thunder is thunder-er
S'rround Sound--what a home wrecker for you!

@robert53: Excellent suggestion! Also by Dave, his recording of "Queen Of Hearts". His is the original, far better imo than the cover by Juice Newton.

And then there is Dave’s partner in Rockpile, Nick Lowe. You could name a couple dozen ear candy songs Nick has written, but his recording of "Halfway To Paradise" (written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin) is utterly transplendent. His writing of "(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love, And Understanding" made him a millionaire.

@bdp24 ...*L*  Great call on Lowes' WSFBPL&U....The tape in my head went to playback on me, and that in itself makes me not object to whatever fortune it allowed him... 👍

Here’s The Travelling Wilburys’ great recreation of Del Shannon’s "Runaway":

https://youtu.be/qEPx9bkpkh8?si=WRxDIVZcSLV9QbTl

Here's a great version of "Where Or When" by Dave Edmunds. Dreamy.

https://youtu.be/i4rNpl-H6RA?si=iqCqU7wseNjiE3px

The Kinks - Two Sisters. Another one of Ray's brilliant, underrated songs. 

The Kinks - Two Sisters (Lyrics)