Day #12 - 30 Day Music Meme -A song from Preteen Years

[shadowkat]

Day #12 of the 30 Day Music Meme- a song from your preteen years. I'm not sure if this is meant to be a song that I listened to a lot, or had been recorded back then. I listened to a lot of music back then, everything from Helen Reddy to ABBA to the Carpenters, to well...The Monkeeys. Also there were Disney Movie Soundtrack Records, Musical Recordings, and all of my parents, Folk, Jazz, Classical records.

But at that time, I remember being in love with The Monkeeys, who my Dad liked to call a poor man's Beatles. And my favorite was...Davy Jones. My best friend and I, at the time, were in love with him. And made a point of seeing his appearance on the Brady Bunch, where he sung our favorite song..

Here he is singing it on the television episode of the Monkeeys in which it premiered.

Watch on YouTube

The song was written by John Stewart for The Monkeeys. It premiered the year I was born in 1967. (So I'm going to have to find something else for that song category - aren't I? ) But I heard it on The Monkeeys, when it aired on Saturday morning in reruns, and sang it with my friends in 1974.

So it was from my preteen years, one way or another. Also it kind of shows, my memory of songs is very visual. I remember the song, because I saw it on a television show and had a crush on the singer.

Comments

[cactuswatcher]

I looked up Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" and Teresa Brewer's (not Eric Clapton's totally different) "Bell Bottom Blues" which I liked a lot back when, and decided all these years later they were things best left in my pre-teen years. ;o)

Here's Del Shannon's short "Runaway." Can't say I like the performance any more, but the base lyrics haven't lost all meaning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPdihUTYk90

[cjlasky7]

One of the only music albums I recall my parents owning was the greatest hits of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Alpert and the TJB were an oddity, faux-Mexican instrumentalists with an L.A. studio gloss. A tune almost ubiquitous in our household during my childhood:

"A Taste of Honey"

https://youtu.be/NC38-qqiVgg

Enjoy the slightly salacious cover from the song's original LP.

I learned much later that Herb in not Latinx--he's actually Ukranian-Jewish(!). And the touring version of the TJB had exactly zero Mexican musicians. (I think Los Lobos would like to have a word with Herb...)

Mr. Alpert leveraged his original hit recordings on his own A&M records (cofounded with his buddy Jerry Moss) into a music empire he eventually sold to Polygram for $500 million.

Now that's a taste of honey.

[wendelah1]

Brings back memories, oh yes.

[atpo_onm]

Had to check on the release dates for a few of my initial picks, which turned out to be a good idea because they were all later than 1966, the year I turned 13. Then it came to me-- a band I was very fond of from the first time I heard them, and I remember getting my folks to buy the album for me.

This was the big hit from it, in 1962. This youtube version (there are many) has reasonably decent audio quality, and a few interesting images:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=414VaKKb9Hc

This one has some live versions, with the picture quality a reminder of how far we've come in 50+ years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kmsb0rXZrc

I still feel sorry for the bull, but it is a great tune, as were many Alpert and his band did.

ETA -- I had picked this tune before reading cjl's pick, which only shows that great minds... often like similar music ;-)