Thursday, August 21, 2014

ATF: The Sixties

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.


December 1963
(Oh What a Night)
Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons
Oh what a night
Late December
Back in '63
What a very special time for me
As I remember
What a night
Oh what a night
You know
I didn't even know her name
But I was never gonna be the same
What a lady
What a night

Oh
I
I got a funny feelin’
When she walked
In the room
Hey
My
As I recall
It ended
Much too soon

Oh what a night
Hypnotizin’
Mesmerizin’ me
She was everything
I dreamed she'd be
Sweet surrender
What a night

And I felt a rush
Like a rollin’ bolt of thunder
Spinnin’ my head around
And taking my body under
Oh what a night

Oh
I
Got a funny feelin’
When she walked
In the room
Hey
My
As I recall
It ended
Much too soon

Oh what a night
Why'd it take so long to see the light
Seemed so wrong
But now it seems so right
What a lady
What a night

Oh
I felt a rush
Like a rollin’ bolt of thunder
Spinning my head around
And takin’ my body under
Oh what a night
Do do do do do
Do do do do
Oh what a night
Do do do do do
Do do do do
Oh what a night
Do do do do do
Do do do do
Oh what a night
Do do do do do
Do do do do
Oh what a night
Do do do do do
Do do do do
Oh what a night
Do do do do do
Do do do do
Oh what a night
Do do do do do
Do do do do



Summer of ‘69
Bryan Adams
I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it ‘til my fingers bled
It was the summer of '69
Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit
And Jody got married
I should’ve known
We'd never get far
Oh when I look back now
That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Yeah
I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life

Hey

Ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in
And that's when I met you
Yeah

Standin' on your mama's porch
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life

Oh yeah

Back in the summer of '69

Oh

Man we were killin' time
We were young and reckless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin' can last forever
Forever
No

Yeah

And now the times are changin'
Look at everything that's come and gone
Sometimes when I play that old six-string
I think about you
And wonder what went wrong

Standin' on your mama's porch
You told me that it’d last forever
Oh the way you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life

Oh yeah

Back in the summer of '69

Uh huh

It was the summer of '69

Oh yeah

Me and my baby
In '69

Oh
Whoa

It was the summer
The summer
The summer of ‘69

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8 comments:

  1. back in the day Bryan Adams was one of my favorites

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Ann!!! He sure had a good run for a number of years.

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  2. 'Oh what a night' I used to roller skate to as a kid, and 'Summer of '69' I drum, most excellent choices there...

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Shadow!!! Alas, my attempts at roller skating way back when might explain why my wife insists that I am just not right in the head.

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  3. I love "Oh, What a Night" and always turn up the radio dial when it's playing.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Stephen!!! Does it bring back some pleasant memories?

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  4. Great tunes...good to hear them again...thank you. :)

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Lee!!! I am really glad you enjoyed them.

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