*Ø* Creeque Alley: Ohhh, now I get it!
One for the oldtimers and retro-hippies:
One of the songs of the sixties that endures because it's just so bloody good is Creeque Alley by the Mamas and Papas, from good ol' 1967.
With uplifting beat, singalong tune and very clever lyrics ("Broke, busted, disgusted, agents can't be trusted", it was definitely one of the best by this US band. Matter of fact, their work was very uneven, with some brilliant highs and woeful lows, no doubt influenced by the tons of smack and oceans of booze Papa John Phillips consumed.
Then there was the band's own version of musical chairs: "Musical Mama Michelle", also known as Mmmmmm; she was shtooping band member Denny Doherty and sort of forgot to mention it for a while to hubby John. (Some other Olympics-class players of Mmmmmm include Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Lou Adler, Denny Doherty, Roman Polanski, Mick Jagger, Rudolph Nureyev, and Gene Clark, the mail man and the visiting Pakistani cricket team.) Both the band and Michelle's water bed collapsed under all the pressure.
In an era of abstruse lyrics, Creeque Alley was particularly hard to grok because the lyrics were about the band itself. Now there's a site that explains or guesses what it's all about.
I've been on a 37-year journey to enlightenment and now I can rest; I have arrived at the mountain top.
Cool and right on.
One for the oldtimers and retro-hippies:
One of the songs of the sixties that endures because it's just so bloody good is Creeque Alley by the Mamas and Papas, from good ol' 1967.
With uplifting beat, singalong tune and very clever lyrics ("Broke, busted, disgusted, agents can't be trusted", it was definitely one of the best by this US band. Matter of fact, their work was very uneven, with some brilliant highs and woeful lows, no doubt influenced by the tons of smack and oceans of booze Papa John Phillips consumed.
Then there was the band's own version of musical chairs: "Musical Mama Michelle", also known as Mmmmmm; she was shtooping band member Denny Doherty and sort of forgot to mention it for a while to hubby John. (Some other Olympics-class players of Mmmmmm include Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Lou Adler, Denny Doherty, Roman Polanski, Mick Jagger, Rudolph Nureyev, and Gene Clark, the mail man and the visiting Pakistani cricket team.) Both the band and Michelle's water bed collapsed under all the pressure.
In an era of abstruse lyrics, Creeque Alley was particularly hard to grok because the lyrics were about the band itself. Now there's a site that explains or guesses what it's all about.
I've been on a 37-year journey to enlightenment and now I can rest; I have arrived at the mountain top.
Cool and right on.
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