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Tonyzonit
Thanks for the input and memory jogs. I think your conclusion about the Revolutionary War connection was right on. I'm glad you mentioned Lulu. Though she didn't have a lot of impact on this side of the Atlantic, her recording of "To Sir, With Love," from the movie of the same name, did quite well and is still one of my personal favorites.
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notapoet
on October 22, 2006 at 9:55 PM
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Pat B
Yes, and my personal favorite from the group, "Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter," which showed they could do more than novelty songs. You have an excellent memory for lyrics on these old songs. My wife was also quite amazing at remembering the words to what seemed like thousands and thousands of songs.
Thanks for staying with me through my recent illness induced absence.
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notapoet
on October 22, 2006 at 9:50 PM
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Blanche
I keep my radio at home tuned to an oldies station that specializes in sixties and seventies music. Beatles' songs make up a large portion of their playlist. In spite of no new recordings as a group for more than 30 years they remain amazingly popular. Many of their current fans weren't even born till after the breakup.
Thanks so much for sticking with me despite my infrequent posting of late. Hopefully I'll be more on top of things with my blogging in the future.
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notapoet
on October 22, 2006 at 9:30 PM
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Notapoet, I put in earphones this morning, to listen to the radio as a car
horn seemed stuck. I inadvertently stumbled across an fm station with a Beatles morning. I remember listening to, "We can work it out", and it seemed very apropos for my life. The Beatles are definitely a nostalgic favorite.
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Blanche.
on October 22, 2006 at 9:13 PM
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Yeah Notapoet
I always hear it called the British Invasion - most of them were English, but I think that was just the wordplay and the link to the War of Independence. Let me think if there were any major 60s groups who were not English... Well, Them were from Northern Ireland, well certainly Van Morrison was. Traffic, slightly later in the hippy era, were partly from Scotland, but Stevie Winwood, the singer, was from Birmingham, England. There was a now little-known Welsh group called Nirvana in the late 60s. Lulu was a Scottish singer but i don't think she made much impact in the States. I'm struggling. Virtually all the main ones were English, and many of them from the art school scene, which was strongest in the South East.
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Antonionioni
on October 21, 2006 at 3:38 PM
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I think it was Herman's Hermits I liked in those days.
Didn't they come out with "Henery the Eighth." Just got married to the girl next door, she's been married seven times before, and every one was an 'enery... Nice to think of an era before the blue states and red states when having fun was okay.
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Pat_B
on October 21, 2006 at 7:44 AM
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