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Dean Remembers Jan
Rolling Stone Magazine ^
| April 2, 2004
| DAVID FRICKE
Posted on 04/03/2004 2:18:49 AM PST by archy
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To: archy
I still can't make out the words to Jennie Lee. For years, I thought I had a bad 45...
To: onyx; spatzie
Time to let Jan go.
Good memories,
great music.
He came back from Deadman's Curve.
That's the best part of all.
I'll be celebrating Jan's birthday, and the amazing circumstances and presence of his existence and actions here, for the rest of my life.
I feel most fortunate to have walked this planet at the same time that he did.
Enough for now. I've got a birthday party to throw together.
Happy birthday, Jan.
-archy-/-
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posted on
04/03/2004 6:29:14 AM PST
by
archy
(The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
I still can't make out the words to Jennie Lee. For years, I thought I had a bad 45... See if this helps.
Jennie Lee
Jan And Arnie
Many a girl I met or knew
Oh, all my life I'd try for you
A name so sweet as Jennie Lee
Her heart is true and just for me
Oh Jennie, (Jennie Lee)
Oh Jennie, (Jennie Lee)
Oh Jennie, (Jennie Lee)
Oh Jennie, (Jennie Lee)
I met her just a year ago
My love for her will grow and grow
Her bright eyes make a fire in me
Now I cannot live without Jennie Lee
Oh Jennie, (Jennie Lee)
Oh Jennie, (Jennie Lee)
Oh Jennie, (Jennie Lee)
Oh Jennie, (Jennie Lee)
Now If I were only seventeen
There'd be no one left to bother me
I'm gonna marry just wait and see
To a sweet little girl named Jennie Lee
Oh Jennie, (Jennie Lee)
Oh Jennie, (Jennie Lee)
Oh Jennie, (Jennie Lee)
Oh Jennie, (Jennie Lee)
Jennie
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posted on
04/03/2004 6:32:46 AM PST
by
archy
(The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
To: archy
I'll be celebrating Jan's birthday, and the amazing circumstances and presence of his existence and actions here, for the rest of my life.
I feel most fortunate to have walked this planet at the same time that he did.
Enough for now. I've got a birthday party to throw together.
Happy birthday, Jan.
- - - - - -
That's wonderful archy!
Please invite me.
I'll be happy to attend,
but to sit quietly on the sideline,
and enjoy the festivities.
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posted on
04/03/2004 6:41:06 AM PST
by
onyx
(Kerry' s a Veteran, but so were Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh and Benedict Arnold.)
To: archy
I met her just a year ago
My love for her will grow and grow
Her bright eyes make a fire in me
Now I cannot live without Jennie Lee He must have spent weeks perfecting this one. "Let's see ... I met her just a year ago ... ago; ago; what rhymes with ago? Snow! That's it! We made love in a bank of snow ... nah, too much sexual connotation. Blow ... blow ... nah, it'll never get past the censors. Grow ... EUREKA! I met her just a year ago ... she made my trouser boa grow ... no, too descriptive. Wait! I've got it! MY LOVE FOR HER WILL GROW AND GROW! ...."
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posted on
04/03/2004 6:41:44 AM PST
by
Agnes Heep
(Solus cum sola non cogitabuntur orare pater noster)
To: onyx
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posted on
04/03/2004 6:46:06 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Become a monthly donor on FR. No amount is too small and monthly giving is the way to go !)
To: Agnes Heep
Hey !
So its not Shakespeare. I still give it a 9 'cause you can dance to it.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
So its not Shakespeare. I still give it a 9 'cause you can dance to it. I could get a dozen painted naked savages to beat on a hollow log, and you could dance to it. But oh well ... I think I can see I'm bucking popular opinion, so I'll leave off.
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posted on
04/03/2004 6:52:46 AM PST
by
Agnes Heep
(Solus cum sola non cogitabuntur orare pater noster)
To: archy
You left out the chorus:
Ba; baa, bobba baa-ba baa-ba, baa-ba...(etc).
To: Agnes Heep
Bring those naked savages on over. I'm doing ribs on the grill today.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Bring those naked savages on over. I'm doing ribs on the grill today. They like ribs, but I'm not sure you've got enough to feed 'em all.
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posted on
04/03/2004 6:56:55 AM PST
by
Agnes Heep
(Solus cum sola non cogitabuntur orare pater noster)
To: archy
Chuck Berry, of course: "Maybelline", "No Particular Place to Go", "No Money Down." Brian Wilson once said that the original goal of his music was to combine Four Freshmen vocals with Chuck Berry's guitar.
To: archy
Man, it takes you right back there.
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posted on
04/03/2004 7:00:37 AM PST
by
Lady Jag
(I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra.)
To: Agnes Heep
Add roasting ears. I've got a dozen of those that will be cooked in the husk.
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posted on
04/03/2004 7:00:51 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Its officially summer here at the Lake of the Ozarks. Killed my first snake of the season yesterday)
To: archy
What a fabulous interpretation!
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posted on
04/03/2004 7:01:46 AM PST
by
Lady Jag
(I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra.)
To: archy
Thanks for the 60s memories,guys. R•I•P, Jan.
To: Agnes Heep
My dad gave up on me, too. He thought I was a lost cause when I bought tapered pants.
Of course, he was from an earlier time.
To: Welsh Rabbit
Pet Sounds wasn't well received for a variety of reasons. In general, Beach Boys fans weren't into drugs and psychedelic music. The main reason was the competition. The Beach Boys just weren't hip anymore. The new wave of music was on the way and the Beach Boys weren't part of it. 1966-1968 saw the rise of acid rock, heavy metal and hippies. A few albums form the same period as Pet Sounds include:
Jefferson Airplane Takes Off
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
Fresh Cream
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced (67)
Blond on Blond - Dylan
The Beach Boys were over. The Beatles hung on for a couple of years, but music was taking on a much harder edge.
Personally, I really didn't like Pet Sounds. Most of the songs were morose and depressing. At the time, I thought the Beach Boys should stick to beach music. I guess I wasn't alone. They continued their successful performance career for many years.
I still have I Get Around, Surfer Girl, Little Deuce Coupe and Barbara Ann on my Ipod.
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posted on
04/03/2004 7:38:32 AM PST
by
Poser
(Belly Girl is Still Hot!)
To: sciencediet
Man, it takes you right back there. You bet. Jan and Dean's Time [ans space] Machine.
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posted on
04/03/2004 7:50:17 AM PST
by
archy
(The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
To: Agnes Heep; spatzie
He must have spent weeks perfecting this one. "Let's see ... I met her just a year ago ... ago; ago; what rhymes with ago? Snow! That's it! We made love in a bank of snow ... nah, too much sexual connotation. Blow ... blow ... nah, it'll never get past the censors. Grow ... EUREKA! I met her just a year ago ... she made my trouser boa grow ... no, too descriptive. Wait! I've got it! MY LOVE FOR HER WILL GROW AND GROW! ...." Yep, pure cornball poetry from a 16-year-old.
I'll take it any day over anything from M&M, 50 Cent, or most any of the manufacturers of recent throaway rap music.
No, I'm not one of those wh clain rap isn't even music at all; it's the legitimate inheritor of skat and any number of novelty tunes from *The Rilarac Song* and *Three Widdle Fishies* to *Surfin' Bird.* But I still like Jennie Lee.
Back then I wonder what that obscure L.A. stripper thought of that song a couple of her high school fans wrote about her.
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posted on
04/03/2004 8:00:51 AM PST
by
archy
(The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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