Re: Bubblegum Shtuff!

[Jeff Penczak <leapday@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lelia Ellen Raley wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, T.J. O'Brien wrote:
> 
> > but I remember doing all the great bubblegum classics:
> > "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy", "Sugar, Sugar:, "Chewy, Chewy, Chewy", "Little
> > Willie, "1, 2, 3 Red Light", "Kicks", "Indian Giver", "Green Tambourine", etc.
> 
> "Kicks" is not bubblegum!!  Didja do "Hitchin' A Ride?"
> 
> > stupid as hell...  but also alot of fun.  (kinda like bubblegum music itself?)
> > -T.J.
> 
> I concur, except that the funness of it is somewhat lost on me,
> having been around for the initial 50,000 playings of these dipshitty
> songs.  But it's not just that I was 17 and not 12 at the time - there was
> plenty of "pre-bubblegum" drivel, too, like The Cyrkle's "Red Rubber Ball"
> & Simon & Garfunkel's "59th St. Bridge Song".
> 
> (Can I get another offended witness here? Heck, yeah, I bet I can!)
> 
> It's just that I dug Aretha & Wilson Pickett & The Byrds & The Unrelated
> Segments & The Nashvile Teens & I still cannot but find this teenybopper
> stuff to be garbage by comparison.  But I wish you every pleasure in your
> innocent, albeit perplexing, enjoyment of it.
> 
> xox,
> 
> Curmudgeoness Lola> > >
> 
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> Interesting that you should mention Red Rubber Ball and S&G. I'm assuming you know that Paul Simon wrote Red Rubber Ball!!??

Jeff
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