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Baroque Bloke |
2’ 30” audio + album photo https://youtu.be/lKcpodt0YCU I hope I haven’t spoiled your day.  Serious about crackers | ||
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| Wild in Wyoming |
I must be old - I sang along knowing every word. My first pair of roller skates needed a key to adjust the size to your shoe. PC | |||
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That song makes me think of high school And what Fridays meant to me. https://youtu.be/dnqxbdnzlhw | |||
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I Deal In Lead |
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Nullus Anxietas |
Hahaha! Good one, Pipe Smoker. About Melanie and Brand New Key, WikiPedia says
Gee, d'ya think  Yup: I can sing right along with it, too If you search on her: She was quite cute. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers performing "Lay Down" in the Netherlands in 1970. It was on a television program and the crowd was mostly older Dutch folks. She really had a strong voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ52lk9wjZI | |||
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always with a hat or sunscreen |
That still resonates today. Very powerful song and a complete departure from her "Roller Skates" tune.  Here's another rendition with lyrics displayed. https://youtu.be/M4KHEsqAZVA Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192 | |||
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That was wonderful. I hadn't heard "Lay Down" in years! | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
“Don’t go very fast but I go pretty far!” Serious about crackers | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Y'know, I never put two together, but in listening to the lyrics...yeah, you could make that argument. She has denied it. On a more innocent note, we had a couple of pairs of those old metal skates with keys growing up. I remember the wheels being small enough to get hung up in the cracks on the sidewalk. They worked better out in the street...unless you kit a piece of gravel. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Oh good lord!! Takes me back to when I was 10 or 11...  "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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When first released, "Brand New Key" was banned by some radio stations because some heard sexual innuendo in the lyrics. Anyone remember Midnight at the Oasis by Maria Muldaur? | |||
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes |
They play this song on one of the background music channels at Home Depot. _______________________ “There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.” ― Frank Zappa | |||
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Well, that sent me down memory lane. Thanks. Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. “If in winning a race, you lose the respect of your fellow competitors, then you have won nothing” - Paul Elvstrom "The Great Dane" 1928 - 2016 | |||
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She claimed it wasn't sexual and at the time the idea that it was never crossed he mind. If she's still sticking to that story, I don't know. Always loved that song, got a great sound. _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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I remember that one. Thanks, now I've got that silly song stuck in my head. | |||
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Absolutely. Bought her LP.  Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192 | |||
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It is my ringtone. Just kidding. | |||
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A great song from an era of great music. It has always moved me, from the almost startling beginning, through the gentle stanzas, and the rousing choruses. If I haven't heard it in a while, it sends chills down my spine. Then it chokes me up. When she gets to about the 2:40 mark in this, probably my favorite video rendition, the tears are streaming. I love this song. That, and I suppose, my lost youth. I was just the right age (17) when this came out, and certainly knew about Woodstock, even though I didn't go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlp3wmE4bbI | |||
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I have heard it every year since forever and especially since 1997. It was featured in Boogie Nights, a legendary film. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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