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Posted by: greenmac 1 year, 9 months agoA NICE... OLD... PIECE OF FUN ROCK....ENJOY
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Ok..Ok....This is where I say something great about myself.....hmmmm. I like daylight and night time as well. How am I doing so ...
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greenmac
March 19, 2008, 1:35 p.m.I think this might fit this thread. Admit it....you watched their show.
The Monkees - "Daydream Believer"
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BoxMonkey
March 19, 2008, 1:43 p.m.Ah , Yes . The Hot and sweatty days of Manhattan - Gridlock , people pushing and shoving , jewelry hawkers on the corner , Hot Dogs in nice dirty water , day old stale pretzels , OH YEAH . Summer in the city . Brings back fond memories .
Thanx GM .
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BoxMonkey
March 19, 2008, 1:51 p.m.On the lighter side - I got to see for free in Central Park over a number of years ; The Beach Boys , Johnny Winters , Uriah Heep , Brownsville Station , Manford Mans Earth Band and a bunch of other bands that I was probably under the influence , since I cannot recall .
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mozzer
March 19, 2008, 1:56 p.m.My parents had "Summer in the City" on a 45. As a kid, I would play it relentlessly. Great memories. :D
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uncle-dave
March 19, 2008, 2:41 p.m.You gotta love the "Lovin' Spoonful"! Great pick GM!
This is from their website. What they don't tell you is that his houseboat/recording studio was a converted barge that had a leaky hull. One night the bilge pump failed and his studio settled to the bottom of the harbor.
"In 1973 Steve Boone leased a 24 track studio in Baltimore and recorded the Little Feat classic, "Feats Don't Fail Me Now." Then he bought the studio and relocated it on to a 135 foot houseboat in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, calling it Blue Seas Studio. The studio became the recording home of such legends as Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, Robert Palmer, Ricky Scaggs and the Seldom Scene."
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not2needy
March 19, 2008, 2:45 p.m.OMG, i love this song. I think i was like 14 or 15 when it came out, seems like yesterday.
Thanks GM!
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Eagle_Eye
March 19, 2008, 3:38 p.m.1966....making me feel real old!!!
Summer of Love, wish I could go back and get stuck in the 60's, those where the best years on earth......except for the war.
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Spadecaller
March 19, 2008, 4:10 p.m.Thanks greenmac!
I always loved this song. I remember working outside in the sun with my buddy and we sang the lyrics a little differently; "High time summer in the city, the back of my neck feeling burnt and sh!tty..." I can't believe that I can even remember that. Funny how memories can get triggered. Thanks again for the invite. Sorry that I couldn't stop by sooner.
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canadianrancher57
March 19, 2008, 8:55 p.m.Great song from a great time, being from a rural area I used to just love getting into the city on those days when it was real hot, the sounds, smells and sights used to drive me wild. I think the big attraction for most of the guys I hung around with was just seeing so many girls. To me back then the perfect day was a hot day in the city and then a rainy evening at the drive-in movie. The kids nowdays say that they still have fun but I wonder what they would think if we could take them back to the 60's and 70's.
I should have given everyone who posted here a pos because they have brought back so many memories even you ranchhand because we would sit and watch the news every evening and we knew what was happening over there and it made me sad then and it still makes me sad today, I don't think that the war was ever to far away in our minds and I knew the guys over there were only a few years older than me, more memories but of a different sort.
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chevydog
March 19, 2008, 9:42 p.m.Thanks greenmac--
The video is a little strange, but the music was great. John Sebastian and friends made some good music.
Being rural folk, both by nature and upbringing, we never had a chance to experience this sort of thing. Unless you consider Wilkes Barre and Hazleton PA large cities. Once in a while, we got close to them.
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scott4261
March 19, 2008, 10:29 p.m.I remember falling asleep to WLS, the 50,000 watt AM blowtorch out of Chicago which would reach the small town where I grew up in Georgia - along with 37 other states - at night. "Summer In the City" from The Lovin' Spoonful would come on. It is a part of the soundtrack of my youth. "You Really Got Me" from The Kinks; "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" from Sugarloaf; "Revolution" from the Beatles; "Magic Man" from Heart; "Ballroom Blitz" from Sweet; "Money" from Pink Floyd; "School's Out" from Alice Cooper; "Fame" from David Bowie; "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who... Top 40 radio then generally had oldies that spanned at least back to 1964 (some earlier...and there was a '50s oldies fascination in the '70s...) All these songs were a part of the soundtrack of my growing up.
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