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BUBBLEGUM!

Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 9:07 pm
by FiatLux
Just to honor the 50th anniversary of the apex of bubblegum music...here we go...





Man I forgot how Fleegle could rock it for the Banana Splits

Re: BUBBLEGUM!

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:13 am
by FiatLux
This was used at Gitmo in a 12 hour loop.


Re: BUBBLEGUM!

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:17 am
by FiatLux
Number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January of 1968, and was a play on The Beatles "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"...



Re: BUBBLEGUM!

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:19 am
by FiatLux
Although a little bit later, "The Italian Osmonds" storm the charts in '73...



Re: BUBBLEGUM!

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 7:19 am
by FiatLux
An Elton John take on a White Plains classic...




and the original...


Re: BUBBLEGUM!

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 7:29 am
by Innocent Bystander
Looks like somebody is showing their age....

the pre-bicentennial period was weird.


Re: BUBBLEGUM!

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 7:38 am
by FiatLux
Liberals ROCK.

Nixon and Reagan... not so much.




Re: BUBBLEGUM!

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 8:48 am
by FiatLux
Libs own Rock...



Re: BUBBLEGUM!

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 12:23 pm
by Screw_Michigan
FiatLux wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:13 am This was used at Gitmo in a 12 hour loop.

WTF?

Dude you are older than dirt. Are you older than Poptart?

Re: BUBBLEGUM!

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 12:57 pm
by Softball Bat
FiatLux wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 7:19 am

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I'll rate that record a 92, Dick.

Re: BUBBLEGUM!

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:23 pm
by Carson
FiatLux wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:17 am was a play on The Beatles "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
Uh, no.

Re: BUBBLEGUM!

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 9:35 pm
by Smackie Chan
Carson wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:23 pm
FiatLux wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:17 am was a play on The Beatles "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
Uh, no.
Uh...
Wikipedia wrote:The song ... title is a play on, and a mondegreen of, the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." (Fred thought the lyrics were "Lucy in disguise with diamonds" when he first heard the selection.)

Re: BUBBLEGUM!

Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 4:23 am
by Carson
Fuck Wikipedia.

I refuse to associate the Beatles with bubblegum.

Re: BUBBLEGUM!

Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 4:54 am
by Kierland
His feelings don’t care about facts.

Re: BUBBLEGUM!

Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 5:05 am
by Innocent Bystander
Carson wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 4:23 am Fuck Wikipedia.

I refuse to associate the Beatles with bubblegum.
If the Monkees are bubblegum, why not the Beatles?

Re: BUBBLEGUM!

Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 6:00 am
by FiatLux
Smackie Chan wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 9:35 pm
Carson wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:23 pm
FiatLux wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:17 am was a play on The Beatles "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
Uh, no.
Uh...
Wikipedia wrote:The song ... title is a play on, and a mondegreen of, the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." (Fred thought the lyrics were "Lucy in disguise with diamonds" when he first heard the selection.)


Go easy on Karenson...