Another analysis video from the not-so-failing NYTimes. Recently, the online subscription increased from $25/month to $30.
Author: DOuG pRATt
Peppermint, Lemon and Steam
Here again is The Peppermint Rainbow’s delightful single, “Will You Be Staying After Sunday”, this time in stereo. Be sure to let it play through all the way to the end. The lyrics of this song are transcendent.
The group covered the Lemon Piper’s “Green Tambourine”.
The instrumental track is so close to the original recording, it must be either the same or an alternate take from the same session.
Which isn’t surprising, as the co-writer, arranger and producer of both recordings was Paul Leka.
“Green Tambourine” was a #1 hit released on December 16, 1967.
Leka’s name is on another single from 1969.
Released October 18, “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” didn’t stall on its way up the charts. It spent two weeks at #1.
“Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” and “Will You Be Staying After Sunday” are most likely not mono mixes, but simple fold-downs from the stereo mixes, as became the common practice in ’69.
Will You Be Staying After Sunday
Don’t let lonely Monday come again
Will you be staying after Sunday or go home on Monday
Will you be staying after Sunday or go home
Your lips are warm on Friday night
The next two days you hold me tight
But when it’s done, you always run, and I’m alone.
Will you be staying after Sunday or go home on Monday
I’ll keep waiting for that one day you’ll be mine
I’d give the world to keep you here
Why do you need to disappear
And when I press you do your best to stall for time.
I wouldn’t try to own your soul
You can be free
I only want you here each night
Loving me
Will you be staying after Sunday or go home on Monday
We gotta let this feeling grow or let it end
You say you care well if you do
Don’t ever go I’m begging you
Don’t let lonely Monday come again
Will you be staying after Sunday or go home on Monday
Will you be staying after Sunday or go home on Monday
Will you be staying after Sunday or go home on Monday (fades out)
Songwriters: Al Kasha / Joel Hirschhorn
ICE is a Terrorist Organization
I want this fucking bastard Trump out of office and out of our lives. He is going to keep putting more boots on the ground, and filling those boots with aggressive lunkheads, until there is enough civil unrest that he feels justified in declaring martial law and calling off the midterm elections.
All is Not Lost?
Save us, Mickey!
This oldie from the somewhat less hopeless Reagan era also helps. It begs the question, why is there scotch tape in the bathroom?
All is Lost
A corrupt president with criminal immunity to everything but impeachment, as granted by the Supreme Court. ICE thugs in Minneapolis and an unwarranted attack on Jerome Powell that threatens the integrity of the Federal Reserve Bank. Not to mention Venezuela, Greenland, Ukraine and Gaza. With whatever is in the Epstein files yet to be revealed. Under the circumstances, this is the movie for me.
Stalled Sunny Songs
This superbly produced single was released on April 12, 1969. Opening like a Four Seasons song, it should have been a top ten hit on Billboard, but it peaked at #32. Sisters Bonnie and Pat Lamdin provide the glorious vocals.
Here’s one, from 1966, that didn’t even chart on Billboard. Sincerely, this was how it felt being young in Christian Fellowship.