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Of Love and Caffeine

Posted on August 17, 2011, 10:46 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

Thanks in good measure to Herbie Hancock and Ramsey Lewis and Minnie Riperton and Macke Vending, I became an intellectual…

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Rounding Second Base

Posted on February 22, 2011, 10:29 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

This Casanova stuff was terribly exciting, but in the psychotherapeutic language we all use today, I needed to process it. And that’s when I had my California Girls moment.

Tags: 120 film, 1965, 1966, Ann Arbor High School, Beach Boys, beard, Brian Wilson, Calcutta, California Girls, Casanova, Charlevoix, Crazy Eights, Dear John, DeJur reflex camera, Dion, Driver's Education, Eastern Michigan University, Goldfinger, Golf, Hollister's The Water's Edge Lodge, I'm A Wanderer, James Bond, Kare John, Lake Michigan, Mike Love, Modern Language Association, Murray's Inn, Olympia Press, Petoskey, Playboy, scruples, second base, Summer Days (And Summer Nights), the Beach Boys, third base, Traverse City, Walk On By, Whitehall Michigan, Woodstock
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A Kitschy Gilde

Posted on September 2, 2010, 10:21 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under Theme Songs.

Have I been defending my youthful tastes a little by portraying myself as a sophisticate-in-training with a yen for the challenging hidden within the mundane like a diamond in the rough? Probably. But with this next item, Lawrence Welk’s version of Calcutta, there is absolutely no making that argument. However intelligently constructed, it is musical kitsch, and one has to start with that.

Tags: Ann Arbor, Around the World in 80 Days, Billboard Top Pop Singles Guide, Calcutta, California Girls, easy listening, exoticism, Four Preps, German music, Heino Gaze, India Country Side, Jim Morrison, Lawrence Welk, Mitch Miller, roller skating, St. Thomas the Apostle School, Victor Young
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The Big Picture and the Closeup

Posts Tagged ‘California Girls’

Of Love and Caffeine

Rounding Second Base

A Kitschy Gilde

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