--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 6/10/05 10:07 PM, Rick Archer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > on 6/10/05 1:29 PM, Robert Gimbel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> --There was an albumn that Rick Stanley put out that had some real > >> swingin' tunes on it! back around '76 > > > > Even the Strawberry Alarm Clock had a TM song that came out in the spring of > > '68. I heard it somewhere in Kansas while hitching from NJ to Los Angeles. > > (Their big hit was "Incense and Peppermints") >
> Found it: > http://www.lyricskeeper.com/strawberry_alarm_clock-lyrics/214097- sit_with_th > e_guru-lyrics.htm (http://tinyurl.com/793rm). I just heard the song once in > March of '68 while sitting in a car at night somewhere in the Midwest en > route to California. Funny how many memories of that trip are vivid in my > memory. Perhaps because I wasn't smoking grass daily (while traveling). ************ As long as we're talking music: "What works for a regiment can be made to work on a national level, to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the skill and persuasiveness of the manipulation. Even the horrors of modern warfare have proved easier to bear when their struggles are identified with and ennobled by great music. In 1942, on a nameless killing ground on the Russian Front, a diary was found in the pocket of a dead German soldier who had just returned from leave in Berlin. One of the last entries concerned a concert he had attended. "Last night I heard a performance of Bruckner's Ninth," the young man had written, "and now I know what we are fighting for!" (more at link) http://www.thehistorynet.com/mh/blmusixofwar/ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
