4 posts tagged “bubblegum”
Good enough to eat thing
And that's just a-what I'm gonna do."
I think that pretty much speaks for itself.
I have few memories of Tommy Roe's "Dizzy" because no one owned the
single. However, our local AM station (no FM where I lived) played the
Top 5 songs after the 8 am news. A couple of us had transistor radios,
and we would try to sneak them past our parents when the school bus
came. So, hearing "Dizzy" was pretty much catch-as-catch-can.
I liked the song as did many of the girls; the other boys were of a
different opinion. What caught my attention was how the background
vocals pushed the meaning of the lyrics, making the song sound dizzy.
Oh, and those organ stabs! Bubblegum does not get much more basic than
this.
I, however, recognized the opportunity and joined the girls around the record player. As it happened, these were the village girls, as opposed to the extension girls or better known as the middle-class clique. Well, what served for middle-class in Appalachian communities anyway. The point being that from then on, I could always get a date from among the village girls.
Note the lyrics:
Not the most PC in the world, eh? Heheh!Stop the game, you've got too much to lose.
If you stop me again, that's when we might end.
so don't refuse.
I was a big fan of the Archies cartoons, especially the songs.
"Sugar
Sugar" was the first pop single that got me to pay attention to Top 40
radio, and my grandmother gave me the record for Christmas. I remember
that Christmas as well, because my gramma was not all that great a
cook, but that year she roasted two capons with stuffing and they were
perfection.
I never lost my love for bubblegum pop, probably because my first taste of it came so early in my life when the girls on Petticoat Junction formed the band The Ladybugs and parodied the Beatles.
