Posted on 09/29/2016 5:02:52 PM PDT by mdittmar
I was probably too young to hear this song the year it was a hit but the pop stations kept it in rotation for years. I definitely remember hearing it on the radio later in the 1960s as I got a little older. A specific memory is from around 1968 when I was in first grade. My mother used to drag us into downtown Boston on the subway to do shopping. We'd stop at the Jordan Marsh and get blueberry muffins which was the highlight of the trip for me. For some reason, this song reminds me of those blueberry muffins and the subway.
Weird trivia, in 1968, Petula Clark was apparently the first woman to make physical contact with a black man on TV. Supposedly it created quite the stir at the time.
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Ronnie Spector was one of those nearly indescribable talents. She didn't seem like she wanted you to feel the music so much as she wanted to have fun with it. He goal seemd to be for her listeners to have fun with it, too.
My wife tells me I'm just nostalgic for a time that can never exist again.
Durham best ever.
The Seekers existed before Judith Durham joined them. It was sort of a garage group or a club group or so I understand. After she joined them I think they came close to taking over the world.
I remember once seeing them on TV sing Waltzing Matilda at a championship(?) rugby game at a stadium in Australia. They did it at a tempo that was perfect for the acoustics of a stadium. That was impressive.
I once showed my granddaughter The Seekers on Youtube and told her Judith Durham was known, in her day, as "the world's sweetheart." The next several times she came to my house she asked me if I would show her some songs from "the world's princess."
I'll take that memory to my grave.
I thought I had heard everything Dusty Springfield ever sang or hoped to sing. I confess to never hearing this rendition. I think I'll look for it.
I once saw an interview when Pet Clark was explaining some idiosyncratic traits of Dusty Springfield or Clark's understanding of them. It made me even more fascinated with anything Springfield.
I usually don't care for it when celebrities check out but don't pay that close attention. It's too much of a reminder of my own mortality. Nevertheless, when Dusty Springfield died of cancer, I think, last century, I think, I paid attention. I have recordings she did that I listen to while driving. I guess if I can hear her, she's still alive.
Another way to look at it is, when our own mortality finds its crescendo, we can listen to the likes of Dusty Springfield singing in heaven or so I hope.
Excellent
Every time I smell popcorn it reminds of Woolworths.
Woolwoths is gone,so is mom,but good memories.
Ever see Cardinal Richelieu’s impersonation of Petula Clark?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEVAGVaEaVo
Link no worky.
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