“We’ll sing in the sunshine, We’ll laugh every day. We’ll sing in the sunshine, then I’ll be one my way.”
I know this song by Gale Garnett may not be a great piece of art but it won a grammy in 1964 and was on the charts for a long time. Covered by a lot of singers.The thing that hit me once it started to loop uninvited through my Jukebox Brain was that it defined our culture. It gave permission to the kids to wander freely, not cut their hair and do other things that might be considered anti-establishment today. It imbedded behavior that was not socially acceptable then or today. Gale Garnett the singer from New Zealand made a living, for awhile. But the imbedded message of the lyrics is that she would leave her boyfriend after a year and that everything would be hunky dorey. Life would go on. But what about the generation of gullible kids who took the song literally? Are they still singing in the sunshine? The superficiality, from todays perspective could be considered highly irresponsible. We’ve come a long way since the Summer of Love brothers and sisters. Or have we?
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In the Midnight Hour
In the Midnight Hour It is midnight and I can’t sleep because WIlson Pickett is running my Jukebox Brain all on his own. How many times I have played this song is impossible to count. I recall smokey blue light bar rooms and stages with hundreds of adoring…
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Route 66 soundtrack
Route 66 Soundtrack Middle of the night I wake up to my internal Jukebox brain soundtrack just humming along playing the early Sixties theme song to the TV show, Route 66. None of you will remember this but I enjoyed it. Nelson Riddle composed it. Nothing better than…
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Wanna Take You Higher
Wanna Take You Higher Sly and the Family Stone was without a doubt the most thrilling band alive. My band Bethlehem Asylum opened for them on numerous occasions in Miami. When this song kicks in the whole world gets up to dance. This morning it is pulsing through…
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Who Wrote The Book Of love
Who Wrote the Book of Love The Monotones coined this tune all by themselves back in 1957. It is a classic ear wig and would not leave my Jukebox Brain alone. So by listing it here, I might expunge it from buzzing around my lobotomy. This was an…
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Things We Do For Love
Things We Do For Love 10 CC was a a big act back in the Seventies. “Like walkin in the rain and the snow and there’s no where to go. Feels like a part of you is dying”. The ultimate polished production from England. Seems like the British…
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Fistfull of Dollars
Ennio Moriconi’s soundtrack for Clint Eastwood’s “Fistful of Dollars” greeted me over my first cup of coffee this morning.I was afraid of what would pop up. My jukebox Brain has been alerted to the fact that I am writing about it’s morning musical memory recitals. Like I said…
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