[Reaganite Republican]

Or watch it on YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc69zr_5uH4&feature=player_embedded

[Genoa]

“The Best of”??? You gotta love it! (But I did think it was a great song. It was an encouragement to my buddies who were also playing some pretty rudimentary stuff.)

[La Lydia]

Catchy song. Kind of like it. So whatever happened to these people? Where is Mr. Question Mark? Are his children exclamation points! Or asterisks?

[the invisib1e hand]

So, ? was ? before Prince was the Artist Formerly Known As Prince, aka !@#$%^&*? Maybe Devo evolved from them.

And I have secretly, sometimes openly, wondered: "way 96 tears? Why not, say, 95 or 37..?"

But I don't really want to know, as that would take all the mystery out of it, and that would be a sacrilege or blasphemy or some such.

[abb]

To sort of continue that theme...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ybCjf6ras
Telstar by The Tornados

But this arrangement was catchy too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaqxxNol11w&feature=related
THE VENTURES - TELESTAR -

[Liberty Valance]

Absolutely love 96 Tears! Thanks for posting.

[Fiji Hill]

I read that in between voyages to other planets and trips into the future, Rudy Martinez, aka Question Mark, worked as a skiing instructor.

[pookie18]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxLEte9D40g

[HerrBlucher]

You’re gonna cry 96 tears....all night long....cry cry cry.....on November 2 if you are a leftist.

Always liked that song along with “Hey Little Girl” by the Syndicate of Sound and “Psychotic Reaction” by the Count Five.

[ShadowAce]

pflr

[Revolting cat!]

A more recent video.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

“96 Tears” - the finest piece of teen trance music extant!

[abb]

I remember that move as a kid. One of the better ones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterians

[Revolting cat!]

Jimmy Ruffin's cover.

[Revolting cat!]

Garland Jeffreys

[hellbender]

Barf. I always thought that was one of the most boring, most talentless songs I’ve ever heard, esp. compared to the great music coming out at about that time from the Beatles, Beach Boys, Stones, Doors, and many others.

[Revolting cat!]

The very essence of rock and roll.

[Terry Mross]

We always thought it was a little bit nasty talking about one being on top and one being “down there”. In the 1960’s we teens were always trying to find something sexy in a song.

[a fool in paradise]

? Mark played an outdoor concert at Lincoln Center this year. He even was joined onstage by Ronnie Spector.

Hear a 30 minute interview with ? and the show...

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/36903