[Steely Tom]

One of the first pop songs I ever remember hearing as a small child (I would have been six or seven). Another of the earliest rock-and-roll songs I remember was The Dovells - You Can't Sit Down. I thought it was weird and annoying the way they kept repeating the same words over and over.

Also I remember It's My Party by Leslie Gore, and of course Puff The Magic Dragon, by Peter Paul & Mary.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Under My Thumb-more to the point.

[Getready]

I always thought the Dovell song was about piles and hemorrhoids.

[Fiji Hill]

One of the first pop songs I ever remember hearing as a small child (I would have been six or seven). Another of the earliest rock-and-roll songs I remember was The Dovells - You Can't Sit Down. I thought it was weird and annoying the way they kept repeating the same words over and over.

Note the reference in the lyrics to South Street,"where all the hippies meet." South Street in Artesia, Calif. may have been "the hippest street in town" in 1963, but nowadays, you'll see a lot of South Asians but few, if any, hippies.

[Fiji Hill]

I remember It's My Party by Lesley Gore, and of course Puff The Magic Dragon, by Peter Paul & Mary.

I once saw Lesley perform that live.

Several years ago, disc jockey Bob Hudson, the Emperor of the Airways, announced that Puff the Magic Dragon was killed in dragon hunt at Hanalei Bay, Kauai, where he liked to frolic.