Bob Stroud's second installment of his Time Warp back to the Summer of '69 was July 5th.
In July, 1969, I was enjoying my summer after graduating from Palatine High School, working at Burger King in Palatine on Northwest Highway, dating Liz, and getting ready to be a freshman at Northern Illinois in Dekalb.
I was recording on an old Grundig reel-to-reel tape recorder. That summer, I got one of those new-fangled cassette recorders. I am still a tape head and still recording on them, but it is getting a lot more difficult. Just try to find a cassette recorder or cassettes anymore. Thanks Walgreen's for continuing with them.
Bob Stroud's words. Mine in parentheses.
We're back 40 years to the day. This is what your radio and record collection sounded like July 5, 1969. We have some things from the AM
GOOD OLD ROCK 'N' ROLL-- CAT MOTHER AND THE ALL NITE NEWSBOYS-- Band out of the UK and produced by Jimi Hendrix. (One of my all-time favorites. "When I was just a little boy, you know my one and only joy was listening to that good old rock and roll."
POLK SALAD ANNIE-- TONY JOE WHITE-- (some of that good old "swamp rock," Thanks JF, John Fogerty, for popularizing it. Anybody "Born on the Bayou?")
MY SUNDAY FEELING-- JETHRO TULL-- New group out of the UK. Their debut album just a few months old entitled "This Was." The lead off selection appropriately titled for what is going on today. (I was a big Tull fan even before Aqualing. Who'd have thought of the flute as a rock and roll instrument? Then, there was their Grammy for best heavy metal group. What was that about?)
IN THE YEAR 2525-- ZAGER AND EVANS-- on its way to the top of the charts. ((A chilling look into a not-too-bright future.)
PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR HEART-- JACKIE DESHANNON-- brand new (What the World needs Now is What?"
HEAVEN IN YOUR MIND-- THREE DOG NIGHT-- definitely the era we got to know Three Dog Night. Their debut album out just a few months now and they were starting to break really big in the record stores and on radio. Their debut album contains all kinds of great inspired covers because that's basically what they did, including a cover of this Traffic classic. (Blue-eyed soul)
Still Taking You Back. --RoadDog
Being an account of some things I'm interested in, what I'm doing, and reflections on my past, especially music.
Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
1 comment:
Re Tull's Grammy, I recall Metallica's subsequent statement when they won, in which they thanked Jethro Tull for not releasing an album that year. (If I recall correctly, Metallica were parodying a similar statement that Paul Simon made when Stevie Wonder didn't release an album.)
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