Posted on 10/29/2016 4:04:42 PM PDT by Steely Tom
A feel-good song.
Good mornin’ sun I say it’s good to see you shinin’
I know my baby brought you to me
She kissed me yesterday hello your silver linin’
Got spring and summer runnin’ through me
Hey 98.6 it’s good to have you back again, oh
Hey 98.6 her lovin’ is the medicine that saved me
Oh I love my baby
That got a lot of airplay in Southern California in December, 1966—on Boss Radio 93 KHJ, my favorite station at the time, and just up the dial on KRLA, at 1110 kilocycles.
Southern California in 1966 must have been a lot of fun.
I lived there for six months in 1961 (I was six) and I’ve never forgotten it.
Southern California was a great place to live in 1966. It had the fastest-growing economy in the world and few illegal aliens, environmentalist wackos or liberals. It was a hotbed of conservatism, giving the margin of victory to Barry Goldwater over Rockefeller in the 1964 presidential primary campaign and a heavy boost to Ronald Reagan in the 1966 governor’s race. Los Angeles mayor Sam Yorty may have been a Democrat, but he was more conservative than most Republicans.
And in 1966, the Los Angeles Dodgers won the National League championship, while the USC Trojans won a Rose Bowl berth.
Remember Keith so well. Anyone remember Question Mark & The Mysterians around the same time?
Or the Seeds? So many good bands in 65 & 66!
Or the Seeds? So many good bands in 65 & 66!
Thread on 96 tears from earlier today.
You are so right.
'65 and '66 are the years I began to become aware of music and radio. My parents bought me a transistor radio in 1965 (probably for Christmas). I remember listening to it in the bathtub and when I was going to sleep, by slipping it under my pillow.
I remember so many songs. My nine-year-old ears often couldn't understand the words. I thought "Paperback Writer" was "It's the Masked Rider." I thought Mick Jagger said "No more will my green seagull turn a deeper blue" in Painted Black.
I couldn't understand what Lou Christie was singing about in Lightnin' Strikes, or what Eric Burden was howling about in The House of the Rising Sun. I couldn't make out what the words were in Summer In The City because John Sebastian sang too fast. I thought Bobby Darren was saying "If I took a woman tree, would you still find me" in If I Were A Carpenter.
I memorized all three verses of They're Coming to Take Me Away, which I can still recite today.
I had no idea As Tears Go By, was credited to The Rolling Stones, although I knew who they were because of Painted Black and Satisfaction.
I knew the exact commercial Jim Morrison was alluding to when he sang "stronger than dirt" at the very end of Light My Fire, and the commercial origin of the instrumental No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In by the T-Bones.
Very intense memories, so long ago.
Yeah, how well I remember sitting under the streetlights at night in my suburban neighborhood with my friend next door listening to the transistor radio.
The Blues Maggos, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Standells, The Easybeats, Gary Puckett And The Union Gap, The Spencer Davis Group, Jay And The Americans and of course the more popular groups Like The Beatles, Stones, Kinks and The Who. I could go on and on...
Sounds like we grew up around the same time. Great memories!
The period from roughly 1965 until 1968 were the best years, when the counterculture movement was very new and seemed highly innovative, but the bad things hadn't started to happen yet.
Like every other revolution, the idealists who started it were swept aside by a far rougher trade that followed them.
Jimmy Webb and Burt Bacharach were writing some of the most sophisticated and beautiful music of the 20th century, and you could hear it on the radio any time you liked.
Jim Guercio was managing The Buckinghams, experimenting with the sound that would he would in the next few years achieve when he put together The Chicago Transit Authority. I loved Kind Of A Drag and Don't You Care. I read on the radio that Guercio got out of the music business and got really interested in fracking, and was one of the early people to actually do it on land he owns out west.
I said “I read on the radio” and I meant to say “I read on the internet.” Interesting subconscious slip of the tongue.
He was the first music industry insider who liked them and saw the potential of Fagin and Becker, and for a while SD was the opening band for JATA.
Thanks for your replies and info...I always figured you were a Steely Dan fan from your FR handle. I bought their first album in 72/73 and hung with them through Gaucho. I now own them all on CD.
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