Posted on 01/19/2022 4:31:36 PM PST by FLNittany
If plane crashes of singers are underrated - his was one of the tops. The guy was a genuine superstar. Probably bigger than Elvis at one time.
This song always reminds me of the fishing road trip dad took the family on to Kamploops in 1972. Hotter’n hell that summer.
There is a great story behind this song. The garden was MSG. And the party was a oldies concert he got boo’d at because he tried singing some new songs. All they wanted was “ hello mary lou” he was disgusted with singing the same songs every night. The man was real, the man was really a golden person .
I wish I had his hair. And of course his talent. He was a good actor as well obviously.
Always loved that song. “Yoko brought her walrus” cracks me up.
Ricky supposedly wrote the song as a response to his perception he had been booed at Madison Square Garden the year earlier. But some people who were there claim that the crowd wasn’t actually booing Nelson but some sort of crowd skirmish with the police that Nelson couldn’t see from the stage.
If memories were all I sing, I’d rather drive a truck.
I lived in Logan Lake once upon a time!
All they wanted was “ hello mary lou”
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A truly great song, great arrangement and an iconic lead by James Burton. Who wouldn’t want to hear it?
Burton played some incredible leads on Nelson’s songs, taking many of them into another dimension.
Did you catch any fish? Cause we didn’t.
The guy was a genuine superstar. Probably bigger than Elvis at one time.
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As someone who was alive back then, I don’t think so.
Rick Nelson got his start on his parent’s TV show (Ozzie and Harriet) in the 1950s. I doubt if the average adult today would know who Rick Nelson was but would know who Elvis was.
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Which is why I typed “at one time”. Not now. “At one time.”
Sort of like Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Salieri was big in the moment but faded into obscurity while Mozart has become immortal in a sense.
Rick Nelson appeared at the old Good Time Theater (formerly John Wayne Theater) at Knott’s Berry Farm when I was working there while in college. Pretty sure it was the summer of 1976. I was heading out to the employee parking lot on Western Avenue when I overheard a ruckus at the back entrance to the park. It was Rick Nelson arguing with an employee working the gate. Seems the talent could only get so many people in free and he was pissed because he had more in his entourage.
Just a little random incident I still remember well.
What 1970’s movie did he sing this song? I was teen and loved it. I’m thinking 1974-1976 era.
He was a great singer and star. I remember the shock of his death on that New Year’s Eve. Wonderful songs. He had real talent.
Such a great song. Always enjoyed that.
Do you really think it is live? It sounds like a studio recording and lip syncing.
McLeod (1972) 1st episode of 3rd season “The New Mexican Connection”. Rick Nelson sings “Garden Party” in a concert sequence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Party_(Rick_Nelson_song)
Nelson Brothers Live in Austin, Texas -- a tribute to their dad.
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