"Your Sixteen", by the least controversial Beatle....Ringo Starr.
Mike
Originally written by the Sherman brothers and recorded by Johnny Burnette in 1960 when he was 26. Ringo re-recorded it in 1973. Makes me wonder about Ringo sometimes.
Catchy tune but the lyrics will raise your eyebrows.
You come on like a dream, peaches and cream Lips like strawberry wine You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine
You're all ribbons and curls, ooh what a girl Eyes that twinkle and shine You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine
You're my baby, you're my pet We fell in love on the night we met You touched my hand, my heart went pop Ooh, when we kissed I could not stop...
What were the Sherman brothers thinking? But after Jerry Lee Lewis' High School Confidential and then marrying his 13 year old second cousin, I guess it was somewhat normalized. 😵
Times sure have changed.
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience -- Mark Twain How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
Obsess much? 🤔 I guess obsession passes for flattery in some parts 🤣🤣🤣
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience -- Mark Twain How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
Watching Audie Murphy in Six Black Horses. A scene has three actors and a dog racing across a field on horseback from indians. The dog hanging on to a pack on the pack horse for dear life.
Wouldn't fly today. Weren't no CGI special effects in 62'..
Of course in the age of today, the lyric in Pink Floyd's 'Money' that would probably be the most offensive to the $15.00 hr minimum wage crowd would have to be:
"But if you ask for a raise, it's no surprise that they're giving none away."
One of my favorite tunes from the Final Cut album is one that would never get any air play where FCC rules are involved: 'Not now John'
Great tune.
The Who's 'Who Are You' usually gets away with the one-F bomb on the local stations here (supposedly, there was an 'L' sound inserted between the F and the U to make it acceptable) but Not Now John would need to be re-recorded almost entirely.
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." - Thomas Paine
"I know my place in the world and it ain’t standing next to Jerry Miculek" - Zee
A lot of songs today would've been ban even just 10 or 20 years ago because of it's content (offensive language, topics or themes) and old songs that were seemingly completely harmless then would be crucified today.
Our society has done a flip-flop. Our priorities have gone sideways.
I hear songs on Sirius and other outlets today that would've never seen any air time over the airwaves 20 years ago but today they're fine. Play a song like The Dukes of Hazzard theme song by Waylon Jennings (zero offensive language, no touchy themes) and you'll have an uproar because of what some folks believe it represents.
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience -- Mark Twain How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
The only constant regarding music is the ebb and flow between acceptable and not acceptable. What's good to go today won't be tomorrow, while things that are banned today will become acceptable again at some point in the future.
"Bipartisan" usually means that a bigger than normal deception is happening.
George Carlin
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill
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Mike
N454casull
Lips like strawberry wine
You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine
You're all ribbons and curls, ooh what a girl
Eyes that twinkle and shine
You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine
You're my baby, you're my pet
We fell in love on the night we met
You touched my hand, my heart went pop
Ooh, when we kissed I could not stop...
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take, I'll be watching you
Every single day and every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay, I'll be watching you...
Oh, can't you see you belong to me?
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take
Obsess much? 🤔 I guess obsession passes for flattery in some parts 🤣🤣🤣
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
Paul
Wouldn't fly today. Weren't no CGI special effects in 62'..
Pink Floyd's Money seems to vary with the station.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
What would be getting edited out of Pink Floyd's lyrics for 'Money'?
"Don't give me your do goody-good BullS**t? That is pretty weak if stations are cutting that part out.
This country is going to hello in a handbasket.
"But if you ask for a raise, it's no surprise that they're giving none away."
One of my favorite tunes from the Final Cut album is one that would never get any air play where FCC rules are involved: 'Not now John'
Great tune.
The Who's 'Who Are You' usually gets away with the one-F bomb on the local stations here (supposedly, there was an 'L' sound inserted between the F and the U to make it acceptable) but Not Now John would need to be re-recorded almost entirely.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain
George Carlin
Sleeping bag.
Winston Churchill