Posted on 08/21/2023 3:05:28 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Albert Hammond singing It Never Rains In Southern California #AlbertHammond
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Dry riverbeds in LA are made of concrete and have fences around them.
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Never letting Youngest Daughter hear that one. She loves to sing songs like that in the car.
Don't let her see the video also, she will want bell bottom jeans.
A memory forever etched in my brain is that of watching Albert Hammond take the stage to the cheers and applause of his adoring fans, only to kill the moment by actually saying, “sorry, girls, I’m married.”🤮
In 1970 this was written to be banned. It was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXn0uIF60iU
Song was about cannibalism.
9 years later the man who wrote “Timothy” wrote and sang this song, the last #1 hit of the 1970s. I think it’s the most trite song of all times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TazHNpt6OTo
Dear sweet baby cthulhu.
We are in the seventies with a worse sound track.
The horror. The Horror.
Back then, I thought it was an okay song. It told a story. It was relateable. Nice for when you were in a teenage mood.
He also wrote a lot of songs with and for other people. His son, Albert Jr., is also in the recording business now.
Those are not dry riverbeds — those are man-made drainage canals
And I have seen lots of pictures of people in bell bottoms.
But that one.... there is something very wrong there.
“While the (Los Angeles) river was once free-flowing and frequently flooding, forming alluvial flood plains along its course, it is currently notable for flowing through a concrete channel on a fixed course, which was built after a series of devastating floods in the early 20th century.”
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