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.
Can’t claim to have ever been a Deadhead, but I liked a lot of their early work, and I certainly understand why fans loved the Grateful Dead. Bob Weir has died. He had a band called ratdog. A long time ago, somebody from a law firm contacted me, asking if I would sell the domain name dograt that, obviously, I didn’t do.
A few posts ago, Petula Clark explained a personal crisis she experienced in 1969. Performing a bilingual show in Montreal she tried, and failed, to please both the French and English speakers in the audience.
Reduced to tears, on a whim Petula visited with John and Yoko at their infamous Montreal bed-in. She explained the cause of her distress and John’s advice was, “fuck ’em!”
John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Sally “Petula” Clark, June 1, 1969, Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal
The split between French and English language music in Quebec in mid-1969 can be heard in the two most recent ’88 Rewound’ programs on WMBR, the MIT radio station.