Posted on 04/28/2023 3:19:21 PM PDT by DallasBiff
A 8mm film done by my sister while
in high school for a class project
in the 70's with music by Melanie
that I transferred to tape. Location Wichita Kansas
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
I loved it. Still sting the refrain from time to time.
That is really cute and for a second there I felt transported back to the 70s!
How fun! Thank you for posting.
Ear worm, Bleeeck.
Ear worm, Bleeeck.
Owww! Who let her sing?!
I miss little of the 70’s except for the music and the lack of fear in society. Thanks for the smile this brought.
This song came out in the early 70s, along with two other one hit but unforgettable songs: Time in a bottle by Jim Croce and Midnight at the Oasis by Marie Muldaur.
The girl in the song has a brand new pair of roller skates and the boy has a brand new key.
What could the metaphors mean?
Charming.
And she’s been around the world.
The original song writer said that she never intended such interpretations.
She got out of the music sewer when the getting was good and is still alive today.
From wikipedia
When first released, “Brand New Key” was banned by some radio stations because some heard sexual innuendo in the lyrics. Melanie has acknowledged the possibility of reading an unintended sexual innuendo in the song, stating, “I wrote [Brand New Key] in about fifteen minutes one night. I thought it was cute; a kind of old thirties tune. I guess a key and a lock have always been Freudian symbols, and pretty obvious ones at that. There was no deep serious expression behind the song, but people read things into it. They made up incredible stories as to what the lyrics said and what the song meant. In some places, it was even banned from the radio ... My idea about songs is that once you write them, you have very little say in their life afterward ... People will take it any way they want to take it.”[19]
In a 2013 interview with music journalist Ray Shasho, Melanie revealed the true origin of “Brand New Key”:
Of course I can see it symbolically with the key, but I just thought of roller skating. I was fasting with a twenty seven-day fast on water. I broke the fast and went back to my life living in New Jersey and we were going to a flea market around six in the morning. On the way back ... and I had just broken the fast, from the flea market, we passed a McDonalds and the aroma hit me, and I had been a vegetarian before the fast. So we pulled into the McDonalds and I got the whole works ... the burger, the shake and the fries ... and no sooner after I finished that last bite of my burger ... that song was in my head. The aroma brought back memories of roller skating and learning to ride a bike and the vision of my dad holding the back fender of the tire. And me saying to my dad ... “You’re holding, you’re holding, you’re holding, right?” Then I’d look back and he wasn’t holding and I’d fall. So that whole thing came back to me and came out in this song. So it was not a deliberate or intentional sexual innuendo.[20]
She should have got the deal patented or copyrighted or something before MTV stole it and made millions and millions!
Never heard that one.
I'm very impressed by the video clip too. It's not annoying, it's a nostagla nostalgia trip.
Sexual innuendo? I guess those radio stations really headed for the fainting couch when they heard 'My Ding-a-ling'.
Two others, American Pie - Don Mclean and the chakachas - Jungle Fever.
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