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(13,114 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,717 posts)rsdsharp
(9,237 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,717 posts)rsdsharp
(9,237 posts)to be a junior in high school, and have the number one song in the country.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,717 posts)peacebuzzard
(5,184 posts)This is still a great song!
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)There's a very different, but good cover by Joe Cocker.
Arkansas Granny
(31,543 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,717 posts)MuseRider
(34,140 posts)beat up metal desk in my room doing homework and stopping to sing along with that. Anyway, yeah..............
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,717 posts)MuseRider
(34,140 posts)This just floors me that it was 50 years ago yet these things come up every day.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,717 posts)other up in the morning. When the song was hot, hed park in front of my apartment and sing it at the top of his lungs. Guy had a great voice but it failed to impress my neighbors at seven in the AM! 😏
MuseRider
(34,140 posts)world wide wally
(21,762 posts)MuseRider
(34,140 posts)Odd how that happens. I think we have lived through some of the very best times and some of the very worst. The music though, now that was some of the best.
whathehell
(29,111 posts)I've often thought myself QUITE lucky to have come of age in the Sixties -- but this "getting old' stuff leaves much to be desired
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)(In my mind, anyway)
whathehell
(29,111 posts)I almost bought a T shirt I saw tecently that said:
"I thought it would take longer to get this old".
jayschool2013
(2,319 posts)The awesomest.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,717 posts)jayschool2013
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(26,717 posts)Glorfindel
(9,747 posts)They actually had a pretty good playlist. The DJ's were nothing at all like Robin Williams, though.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,717 posts)mgardener
(1,825 posts)I remember I walked a mile to the store to buy the record and they were sold out.
It was a long walk home.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,717 posts)QED
(2,754 posts)and we said to each other, in all our 12 year old wisdom, "that sound is gonna be a big hit."
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,717 posts)wysi
(1,512 posts)I always loved this song, even from when I was a kid. I had no idea that the singer, Alex Chilton, would become such a big part of my life as an adult, in particular his work with Big Star. It still amazes me that he was only 16 years old when he sang this.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,717 posts)Very cool!
jg10003
(976 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,717 posts)IcyPeas
(21,955 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,717 posts)calimary
(81,608 posts)When I was in college radio, I did a request show because I actually had a few listeners to my little night-time show.
Some guy called in one night and said "play 'Aero-plane'." I had to think fast, because this wasn't at all clear. Did he mean "Leaving on a Jet Plane"? The Jefferson Airplane? I wasn't sure what he was requesting, and he repeated, insistently, "play 'Aero-plane'." I still had no idea what song he was talking about, so I started asking questions - "do you mean 'Leaving on a Jet Plane'? Or a song by the Airplane?" I could NOT figure it out. And he finally said: "No! Aero-plane! You know, gimme a ticket for an Aero-plane"!
I swear, I've cracked people up with that story since 1972!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,717 posts)As I read play aero-plane the voice that I heard in my head was that of Gaear pancakes house Grimsrud from Fargo!
BluesRunTheGame
(1,623 posts)niyad
(113,966 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,717 posts)niyad
(113,966 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)And he would sound completely different, sort of like a teenage kid!