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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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On a Losing Streak

Posted on January 31, 2011, 10:58 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

When Mick sang “I can’t get no girl reaction,” I’ll bet half the listeners heard what I heard: “I can’t get no girlie action” – which is a little bit more risqué. And on the other hand, I’ll bet lots of people heard “I’m trying to meet some girl” rather than the blunter “I’m trying to make some girl,” which was what Mick actually sang.

Tags: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, 1965, Aftermath, Charging Rhinoceros of Soul, Charlie Watts, Chromonica 64, Farfisa organ, Great Society, Gulf of Tonkin, harmonica, Hohner Chromonica 64, Joni Mitchell, Keith Richards, Max Yasgur, piano, Rhinoceros, Rolling Stones, Satisfaction, space walk, Vietnam War, Well-Tempered Clavier, Woodstock, Yasgur's farm
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