This song always reminds me of the fishing road trip dad took the family on to Kamploops in 1972. Hotter’n hell that summer.
There is a great story behind this song. The garden was MSG. And the party was a oldies concert he got boo’d at because he tried singing some new songs. All they wanted was “ hello mary lou” he was disgusted with singing the same songs every night. The man was real, the man was really a golden person .
Always loved that song. “Yoko brought her walrus” cracks me up.
Ricky supposedly wrote the song as a response to his perception he had been booed at Madison Square Garden the year earlier. But some people who were there claim that the crowd wasn’t actually booing Nelson but some sort of crowd skirmish with the police that Nelson couldn’t see from the stage.
The guy was a genuine superstar. Probably bigger than Elvis at one time.
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As someone who was alive back then, I don’t think so.
Rick Nelson got his start on his parent’s TV show (Ozzie and Harriet) in the 1950s. I doubt if the average adult today would know who Rick Nelson was but would know who Elvis was.
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What 1970’s movie did he sing this song? I was teen and loved it. I’m thinking 1974-1976 era.
He was a great singer and star. I remember the shock of his death on that New Year’s Eve. Wonderful songs. He had real talent.
Such a great song. Always enjoyed that.
Do you really think it is live? It sounds like a studio recording and lip syncing.
Nelson Brothers Live in Austin, Texas -- a tribute to their dad.
Nobody could thrill more young girls by doing hardly anything on stage like Rick Nelson.
A great song.
I remember when his name was Ricky . . .
I thought Tracy Nelson’s story of living in the haunted Erroll Flynn house was pretty interesting.
https://rick-nelson.tumblr.com/post/40904354471/late-night-creepy-post-heres-errol-flynns
Saw him live in concert a few years before he died. It was a good show.