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!