Bubble Gum was pop (popular) music for little kids. Think Partridge Family, the Monkeys, Donnie and the rest of the Osmond clan, early Jackson 5 stuff. Cheap Trick was NEVER bubble gum.
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I don’t think the lyrics about VD would be appropriate in bubble gum music. “Some Indonesian junk” - that’s not a ship!
I also wonder how the Japanese audiences took some of the lyrics:
“Before we married, Mommy served
In the WACS in the Philippines”
Now, I had heard the WACs recruited
Old maids for the war
But mommy isn’t one of those
I’ve known her all these years”
I’m not sure if the young Japanese fans at Budokan in 1978 fully grasped what they’re talking about, or remember what the Japanese soldiers did when they conquered the Philippines.
Bobby Sherman
Boyce and Hart
1910 Fruitgum Company
Ohio Express
I grew up in it
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