[bomp] Smile All The While

[NankerPhlg@xxxxxxx]

<<< If Michael knows the song, he's also intimately familiar with  all nine 
re-mixes >>>
 
That's what Mike Fornatale said about me in the promotional blurb for the  
first few Shaw Nuff gigs...But this morning I was thrown by something I'd  never 
heard before.
 
A co-worker had the Long Island oldies station on, and they were playing  
"Smile A Little Smile For Me" by The Flying Machine...which was surprising since  
they, like a lot of oldies stations, seemed to have chopped down their 
playlist  to "Only oldies that *everybody* knows"...You know, "My Girl," "Get 
Together,"  "Satisfaction."
 
But no matter, as I've always liked this song a lot. It may be a little too  
much on the pop side for some, but I like it. Anyway, *every* time I've  heard 
this record in the twenty or so years I've known about it, there was  a 
keyboard after the second chorus playing the melody for a few bars, and I  always 
liked this part because it sounds exactly like this real cheapo toy  keyboard a 
friend of mine had when we were kids...and I can't help but think of  that 
thing whenever I hear that part of "Smile A Little Smile For Me."...And  just 
before that part of the record came up this morning, I said to the  co-worker, 
"I love this bit, with the really corny keyboard."
 
Except...it didn't come up. Over the bars where it would have been, there  
was instead the singers going "Ba ba ba ba, ba ba....." to the melody. 
 
I've *never* heard that before. I have that song on a few comps, but it's  
always the one with the keyboard. Where did that come from? Which one was the  
actual "hit single" version?

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