I guess he was one toke over the line.
Seeing these reports strike home.
“Sweet Jesus”
I was a freshman in collage in 1969 when I bought their second album “Weeds.” Bought their third album “Tarkio” in 1970.
They were really talented, great songwriting, and amazing harmonies.
The past few years, the Grim Reaper has visited a lot of the artists I listened to in high school and college.
“We made Nixon’s ‘hate list,’ which we held as a badge of honor and still do to this day, and the Vice President, Spiro Agnew, named us personally on national TV one night as ‘subversives to America’s youth.’ I mean, you can’t buy that kind of publicity.”
Well, now he can toke a few with Dick and Spiro and catch up.
Lawrence Welk Show - One Toke Over The Line (you couldn’t handle that on strong acid).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKslYBMycHM
Rest In Peace, Michael Brewer.
A classic appearance of this song on the Lawrence Welk show...they had no clue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE
I’ve never been one toke over the line
My ganja tolerance was legendary
But I have been one microgram over the line
Not pretty
I once introduced B&S at a performance at my college in Nebraska. I wore yellow bell bottoms.
My band plays “One Toke” at just about every gig. It’s easy to play and a real crowd pleaser. I’ve always been impressed by their clever use of chords in both the key of D and the key of C in the song. Those guys really knew what they were doing musically.
Back in those long gone days, my Christmas present to my mother’s sister, at her request, was a selection of record albums, which included Tarkio, Sgt. Pepper, and a few others which I forget. She wanted an update on where the popular culture was headed.
I had to explain to her what “toke” meant!
As I recall, in some situations, the “k” was dropped and the title became “One Toe Over the Line”.
Rest in peace, Michael, you did good.
I remember that album only because I thought that its version of Brewer's song "Hearts Overflowing" was better than the version that he had recorded with Shipley some years earlier... and was even better than Jonathan Edwards's version, which wan't too bad either. There was a time when Hearts Overflowing was a reasonably popular song at weddings.