Thursday, November 03, 2005

Did u know Bubble Yum is filled with spider eggs?

I have a confession to make...I am a closet fan of 1970's bubble gum music! I am sitting here right now, listening to Free Internet Radio, and while the station I am playing is called "#1 Hits", I keep skipping past all the songs and only stopping at 70's pop, like Kung Fu Fighting...Lonely Boy...The Night Chicago Died...and so on and so on. (hey, remember that commercial for Fabrege Organics shampoo, also from the 70's: "I tell 2 friends, and you tell 2 friends, and so on and so on.." and the woman with the beautiful hair begins to fill up several squares on the screen, sort of like a hybrid of The Brady Brunch and Hollywood Squares?) Ok, I digress...

But even as a kid, my parents, who raised us on Dylan, Beatles, Stones, Springsteen, Clapton and a whole assortment of folk singers...Guthrie (father and son), Phil Ochs, Peter Paul & Mary, Joan Baex, Jonie Mitchell....could not bear to listen to me as I bopped around the house with my HOLLY HOBBY (! and matching NIGHTGOWN) radio, listening to Styx and REO Speedwagon! And here I sit, 30 years later..listening to Knock 3 Times!!! Here we go, some Donovan...that would make Dad proud!

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