* If you were not white, you were subject to discrimination.
* If you were not female you were drafted into war under the age of majority for activities like drinking alcoholic beverages and voting.
* If you sported facial hair, you were not employable (gentlemen's agreement)
* If you did not have children by the age of twenty-five, you were ostracized as being SELFISH and not willing to fight the global demographic battle (subtle form of racism).
ITS NOT ALL GONE@LACTATINGDOG ITS STILL IN OUR HEARTS, ITS JUST THAT KNOW WE GET A THAT MELANCHOLY FEELING IN THE PIT OF OUR STOMACHS AND HEARTS AND REALLY APPRECIATE THE MUSIC WE VS WAT WE HEAR TODAY! ILL NEVER FORGET WHEN I SAW THE BEATLES THE FIRST TIME THEY APPEARED ON THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. IT CHANGED MY LIFE AS I WENT ON TO START MY FIRST BAND GROW MY HAIR AND PISS MY OLD MAN OFF!!! THAT FEELING WIKL NEVER COME BACK AGAIN!! PEACE TO EVERYONE!!
Just thinking of those days and music, make me feel young again. It seems like yesterday. The memories will always be fresh in my mind. Many of my friends have either passed away or have grown older like me. Those still with us show age, but when I talk to them, they haven't aged one bit.
@Thepast2012 What a time to be alive and young with all the freedoms we enjoyed. And the music!!!! I wouldn't give a day back then for an extra week today. My worst day then was getting hit by a car. Today, most every day is bad in one way or another. The younger generation couldn't imagine such a loss of independence . They're epoxied to their phones and live like a school of fish in an electronic glass bowl fed by synthesized performers.
A beautiful tune...so light and springy, especially the running bass in the background skipping along with the melody...Elaine, what an enchanting voice and lovely vibrano sustaining these pleasure filled moments of sound.
I love this song, and the images too, don't get me wrong; but I wonder if the animals at the park have ever wondered if the honeybees could set them free? (For the record, I am NOT some PETA extremist, so don't go there; I just saw an irony of the lyrics and images juxtaposed.)
Second song of theirs with a "Ba Ba Ba Ba" starting. I thought it was terrible for one! But, wow, what a crappy song....the dark side of 60s music........
@kensteee YOU DON'T KNOW GOOD MUSIC OR GOOD GROUPS. The 1960s had a nostalgia phase started by the Beatles that took the generation back some decades to barbershop harmonies, that's where the "ba ba bas" come from! Quite a few groups used it from the Beach Boys to Monkees and they all had hits with the technique that has become classics including this great song and group. So stop with your silly criticism and go do your homework. No one's faulting your late birth for your stupid ignorance!
songs like this make an old man weep for those long lost days of his youth. ah, Betty, Betty, where are you and my youth now. how i miss you both. god, how we sped down the open highways of Illinois in the '60's listening to the greatest music ever played. the wind blowing in the car windows, swirling your hair around your beautiful face. the feel of your hand squeezing mine. the sunshine, the way it made your face glow and your smile! how it made my heart glow. all gone, gone.
@lactatingdog , You are right my friend. I can only tell you that this life is just a dream, sometime a nice and beautiful one, sometimes a nightmare; but those are the memories that make our lfe worth of living. Have a great day!.
When in base camp while in Nam, I would be drinking the 3.2 beer, and listen to the military radio station that played music like this. It's nice to remember something about that war that didn't include violence.
@dogleg97 How does it feel to be betrayed by the very same government that opened the floodgates via Hart-Celler (1965 Immigration Reform Act)? Drive through neighborhoods where not one house has Old Glory on display except the "crabby well assimilated old people who can't run back to the nations of their forebearers"?
Ive commented on "Id Like To Get" by S&OG...Now here I am with one of THE 3 records that defined my Chicagoland childhood. THIS, & Face The Autumn, & I Love You So Much...are potent. Almost too much. God bless & goodbye! Write me if u shared these feelings...wow!!!!
Wow! Sweet memories of hearing this song on the "Breakfast Show" on Voice of America's short wave program while living on the distant shores of Asia. They sure don't make them like that anymore. Brings tears to my eyes.
I had a copy of this song long ago (either a 45 or album) and at 1:21 all the band members would say "Hello". Every version I've heard lately has only the organ. Anybody know where the version I heard came from?
Nice song, nice voice. But how does it feel to be the first generation in American history which can say, "Our children and grandchildren will not do as well as we did?" Oh, but those memories will get your through.
For anyone interested: Masta Ace used this song for his (in my opinion brilliant) track Take A Walk. Always nice to find out where hiphop samples come from. Greetings from Amsterdam!
raynageotte You are a freaking douche. If you don't like this then fast froward to the tunes your type listen too. I will take a "Lazy Day" over "Bitch suck my black dick", "Kill my parents." Piss off wannabe troll.
@undertkr2001 Undershorts--why don't you go get stoned. My type listens to 60's stuff because that's where are heads matured on good pot back then. Lazy day for weiners who hang around the mall on saturdays.
@raynageotte BTW bro, I do get stoned. Sometimes I get really stoned. I apologize very much. That attack was meant for someone else. You seem to have your head on straight about music, so again, please accept my apology. Rock on raynagoette,
What the hell happened to groups like this? We had these folks, Seekers, Association, We Five....groups that had voices that actually harmonized. There was a truly poetic blend of music and voice that hasn't been heard since. There definitely has been good music in the decades since (minus the last 10 yrs or so), but this was like magic. To be part of a band you actually had to be able to sing a particular range or scale or whatever you call it, not just doing your own thing.
@Disco58 These groups back then were on drugs and often hallucinated togeather and got stoned alot togeather and when they had band practice in their basements or garages time did not matter so they practiced alot harmonois while stoned into the night and eventually got real good at singing. Drugs can do this ya know.
Most bands like these never dawned on them they were good singers because they only experienced psychedelic images of themselves but saw the crowds clapping when they played.
Not everyone was on LSD 24/7 as you suggest. I know, I was there; never touched anything stronger than Schlitz or Falstaff Draft (in the handy quart bottle); so grow up and buzz off, or buzz off & grow up - or just buzz off.
@Disco58 i'm a fellow 60's kid, and agree with your comments -- a lot of the younger people can't be expected to understand pre-texting types of fun (my 16 yearold daughter might side with raynageotte ,though i have influenced her elsewise, and she has always been more level-headed than her peers...) ---- i just like to think about it all this way : i'm secure in the fact that our generation's music was far superior to the junk that's put out these days, and rap&such only makes our music shine
This song is gottsta be about drugs. No one sees people in a park always smiling at each other and kids saying hello... unless yor on an acid trip like these guys.
You apparently didn't grow up in the 60's like some of us did. The 60's weren't all "psychedelic", nor were they all good, but... Along with the strife there was plenty of just light happy life, like these songs speak of.
@garebear1015 These freaks should sing about people hanging out at the mall--not a park. Hip kids go to the mall. There you see kids smiling because they can buy things and maybe see some friends. You can't do that in a park. They had malls back then.
When you listen to a song like this you realise the pop music artists of today have absolutely no idea about melody and backing vocals and to how make a great sounding pop record.
I took this wonderful music for granted, I thought it would never end. How wrong I was. What I wouldn't give for people to write and perform this kind or music again!
thank you tweasha for posting, every now I visit this song on You Tube, good to hear music with melody and harmony, sadly lacking in today's crap music.
The sixties sun,my sister and me on a big rock by the river this song struggling to be released from to two dollar transistor radio.Memories caress my needful soul. Bear Walks Laughing
This song brings back lovely but painful memories of my high school sweetheart whom I didn't marry, but should have. It's been almost thirty years since we broke up, but I still think of her practically every day. I see her beautiful face in my dreams and I wake up heartsick. If I could go back in time, I would beg her to take me back and work things out. My life has never been right since she left it.
@fscap811 I hear ya. but you need to get things rolling. I had a heartache that lasted for about 30 years... I was 22 when we broke up. Took me over 30 years to understand that she was NOT 'the' one... although the heart can deceive like nothing else in the universe
I have shared this wonderful music with my adult daughters and they are now fans of those incredible women vocalists of the 60's. Elaine---THANK YOU. LOVE YOU FOREVER!!
I miss this very much, my neighbor, good man, did three tours of prison said something that sticks with me and will all of my life., said he was a bad guy, today, he tells me that he just wants to be left alone to live his life. A unique concept!
Please help to bring back "Suzanne" which has been removed by someone. Now what's up with that? I am noticing that several of the Spanky & our Gang songs have been removed. Someone please re-post! Thanks
If I could bring back the 60's, I'd do it in a heartbeat,fortunatly we still have the music. Remember driving around the lake at Fairmont Park in Riverside, on Sunday afternoon new 67 Camaro rs/ss 396...listening to this music...Wow, does'nt get any better...love...poppa
MrPoppa2, a fellow Riversider!! I didn't do the cruising aroung Fairmont Park till the early 70's but I know what you mean. Those were good days back then. The kids today don't know what they're missing. Oh yeah, and my sister's boyfriend drove us in his totally cool (so wh thought) purple El Camino.
F... rap music. It is a politically correct means of expression. Let the assholes who think it has artistic value kill themselves all off. Give me this positive type of thought anyday! Peace out all you rap music mofo's.
Listening to this song made me think -- Have you ever heard a rap song that was this happy? Actually, have you ever heard a happy rap song at all? Seriously, is there one?
This wonderful music touched the heart and soul like no other music from the groovin' 60's. I was just three when this song came out in '67, but if I had a time machine I would go back and indulge in all the good times and music the sixties had to offer, it seemed like fun never ever ended in the sixties. Free love, awesome music, awesome cars and a time where
there was no hurry for anything but a good time....please dear lord bring these times back!!!!!!!
Your posting got me. I hear what you're thinking. I'm with ya, pal!
This is on my 'favorites' list, and I ended up playing this and many other tunes from the fabulous 1960's and some '70's for some old friends tonite, too.
It might sound strange to you and other younger folks out there, but I'm glad I
am 55 years old,because I got to live in the most wonderful period of time.
The 60's and 70's were better than you can imagine! I'm lost in the 60's!
@jjjay69 Don't we all! But I'm afraid it's all downhill from here. I'd send you to the "World population" site, but that's too depressing after hearing this great tune.
@jjjay69 What's stopping you? You can move mountains if you believe you can, and men have done this. You can make your own reality. Listen to sixties tunes all the time! There's lots of good vibration still left in it. You'll catch the fever once again. BELIEVE!
Not only is the music wistful and nostalgic in itself, but almost forces the modern day listener to become nostalgic for the period in which it was produced. Who cares? Thanks for posting this classic.
Yes, I was born in 1972 and it definitely has that effect on me. I feel as if I am there when I listen to this. No feeling quite like it. The 60's-70's are the ultimate.
Great harmonies! There was so much memorable music being made then, it's impossible not to be nostalgic for it. And it was about love, and change for the better, with a hopefulness you never experience anymore. Our culture was young, we were young, anything seemed possible...! Cynical people try to make me feel silly for enjoying that, but the feeling young people had that said, "Wait a minute, maybe we really can change things!" can't be allowed to disappear. Don't lose hope! Listen!
Good deal! Yeah, I lived during this wonderful period of time, and this was the sort of music we were just taking for granted. So much wonderful stuff was coming out of the 60's, and I do miss the 1960's a whole lot.
I am a product of the 1960's and I've gotten kind of nostalgic within the last year or so.....However, I am very happy to have relocated this tune...... This is one
of the great songs of the 60's !!!! I'm lovin' it ! (smile)
What a great song! I had forgotten how much I liked it. As a matter-of-fact, I like it better now than I did then probably because I am not under the pressure of being in my 20's and facing becoming an adult in the ridiculous '60's.
This song gives so much pleasure and makes you smile!
What a great tune--so typical of the 60's! Simply wonderful!
I miss much of the 60's. Sure, there were things then, like now, that could be better, but still !!
I feel sorry for the young folks these days. We had so much terrific music then, and I can only say that 'some' music today is O.K.--but still nothing like then!
triple snack, here come the brides the green hornet and tasty freeze on the south side of chicago when this song came out! i was about 9 years old then.
Love this song. As far as I'm concerned, the late '60s were as good as music has ever been. I was in my early teens, and we just took great songs for granted.
@pudmaak yes, I agree..we took them for granted in large part because we had no idea music would evolve into the veritable garbage 'most' of it is today!!
@pudmaak I was born in 64 and wondered why music was so wonderful. Turns out i was just listening to the prime time of Pop, Rock, and Bubble gum rock. No better time then the late sixties. Actually 65-72.
Well said! The late 60's (I was a preteen then) gave us so much music that was enjoyable to the max! Truly classic stuff! This song never fails to put a smile on my face & touch my heart. THANKS for your insightful comment! May all your wishes & dreams come true in the New Year! :-)
@pudmaak THAT IS A HISTORICAL FACT MY FRIEND......The 1960's and 1970's had a music industry like has NEVER been known in HISTORY.......IT IS NOT just that we were young........
@sierracuban lol keep dreaming. The 70's were nothing special. Heck, even the "early 80's" had more of an impact than most music fromt he 70's. Note the emphasis on early 80's. The latter half of the decade (1987-1989) were probably the worst three years in pop music history lol. Too many boy bands, hair bands, and that's when rap got it's start.
@hospitalbedpan1 REALLY ???? THE 1970's WERE NOTHING SPECIAL IN MUSIC ??? IN WHAT YEAR WERE YOU BORN ???? THE 1970's WERE THE YEARS OF THE RICHEST MUSIC INDUSTRY IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD......I DON' T NEED TO DREAM FACTS........
@hospitalbedpan1 OK, there was some good music in the early 80's, BUT the 60's and 70's were a music explosion the like of which hasn't been seen since
@jeff93534 well, I agree on the 60's but not the 70's.
Most of the 70's were simply a continuation of the music from the 60's. It took the really late 70's and first half of the 80's to really change the music scene. There is a reason why modern bands sample that era more than anything else previously.
And if you look at some newer bands like the killers and good charlotte (dance floor anthem), their most memorable songs copied the new wave format. And by the way, I hate good charlotte :-)
I was a baby (literally) in the late sixties and the memory of hearing all of this stuff on long trips stays with me to this day. It's basically all I listen to.
@sierracuban I agree! Lots of youtube comments I've read in recent years state: "I wish I were born sooner," or " I'd like to have a time machine...." Even the youth of our nation acknowledges that the music in our era is a lot superior to today's tunes.
What made this time special?
* US Dollar backed by gold
* Greater percentage of the workforce was unionized
* Effective border control
* Low debt to GDP ration
* US debt owned by US individuals and US corporations
* Radicals were under control. (J.Edgar Hoover's FBI , House Un-American Activities Commission, Subversive Activities Control Board, etc.)
* National defense was a non-negotiable
PASCHDigiMedia 1 week ago
What made this time not-so-special?
* If you were not white, you were subject to discrimination.
* If you were not female you were drafted into war under the age of majority for activities like drinking alcoholic beverages and voting.
* If you sported facial hair, you were not employable (gentlemen's agreement)
* If you did not have children by the age of twenty-five, you were ostracized as being SELFISH and not willing to fight the global demographic battle (subtle form of racism).
PASCHDigiMedia 1 week ago
What a day to take a walk in the hood;
Isagood100 3 weeks ago
@Isagood100 lol
ayla8251 1 day ago
ITS NOT ALL GONE@LACTATINGDOG ITS STILL IN OUR HEARTS, ITS JUST THAT KNOW WE GET A THAT MELANCHOLY FEELING IN THE PIT OF OUR STOMACHS AND HEARTS AND REALLY APPRECIATE THE MUSIC WE VS WAT WE HEAR TODAY! ILL NEVER FORGET WHEN I SAW THE BEATLES THE FIRST TIME THEY APPEARED ON THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. IT CHANGED MY LIFE AS I WENT ON TO START MY FIRST BAND GROW MY HAIR AND PISS MY OLD MAN OFF!!! THAT FEELING WIKL NEVER COME BACK AGAIN!! PEACE TO EVERYONE!!
havanakings 1 month ago
Remember the freedom of the 60's? I miss it.
blabblab1212 2 months ago
Just thinking of those days and music, make me feel young again. It seems like yesterday. The memories will always be fresh in my mind. Many of my friends have either passed away or have grown older like me. Those still with us show age, but when I talk to them, they haven't aged one bit.
dancalhoun2006 2 months ago
@dancalhoun2006 I think I was 12 or 13 when I first heard this on the radio loved it then still do. re: memories it does the same thing for me too...
Ca1861 2 months ago
to bad the this county is not in the same time and place when this song came out lucky i was there
bmoore591 3 months ago
@bushna2007--well said! No creativity today---videos, computers, I-pads, pods, I-I-I will do all the thinking for you!!!!!
chuckbuckbobuck 3 months ago
@Thepast2012 What a time to be alive and young with all the freedoms we enjoyed. And the music!!!! I wouldn't give a day back then for an extra week today. My worst day then was getting hit by a car. Today, most every day is bad in one way or another. The younger generation couldn't imagine such a loss of independence . They're epoxied to their phones and live like a school of fish in an electronic glass bowl fed by synthesized performers.
bushna2007 3 months ago
A beautiful tune...so light and springy, especially the running bass in the background skipping along with the melody...Elaine, what an enchanting voice and lovely vibrano sustaining these pleasure filled moments of sound.
jamesmilton2son 3 months ago
So many songs like this from the 60's put you into a great mood no matter what.
Simple tunes with fantastic quality- "Like to get to know you", is another gem from Spanky...
Glad I was there to experience it, wish I could go back for a day or two now and again... bet you do too!
sparx1951 3 months ago
Great song. Music nowadays just does not have the skill, creativity and musicianship.
TSconspiracy 3 months ago
Great people make great music! I agree, Sixties forever!
lionssong2525 3 months ago
I love this song, and the images too, don't get me wrong; but I wonder if the animals at the park have ever wondered if the honeybees could set them free? (For the record, I am NOT some PETA extremist, so don't go there; I just saw an irony of the lyrics and images juxtaposed.)
therealjoebloggs 4 months ago
Excellent job very Tastefully done. Keep up the Great work. Ricky!
rjc3208 4 months ago in playlist rjc3208's Favorited Videos
Your children take some very blurry pictures.
loganroxxx 4 months ago
Second song of theirs with a "Ba Ba Ba Ba" starting. I thought it was terrible for one! But, wow, what a crappy song....the dark side of 60s music........
kensteee 4 months ago
@kensteee YOU DON'T KNOW GOOD MUSIC OR GOOD GROUPS. The 1960s had a nostalgia phase started by the Beatles that took the generation back some decades to barbershop harmonies, that's where the "ba ba bas" come from! Quite a few groups used it from the Beach Boys to Monkees and they all had hits with the technique that has become classics including this great song and group. So stop with your silly criticism and go do your homework. No one's faulting your late birth for your stupid ignorance!
ratscisum 4 months ago
Baby, you and me....and the honey bee....cool song.....
centralparocker 4 months ago
SPANKY R.I.P MY LOVE
MrSecretsquirell 4 months ago
BEAUTIFUL
davidboun1 4 months ago in playlist jams
THIS IS WHAT IT IS THIS MUSIC IS FROM THE 60'S IS A POSITIVE ENERGY. THANKS FOR ANOTHER GREAT POST THIS GROUP WAS EXCELLENT. WE ARE SOUTHERN CAL.
bx944 4 months ago 2
@bx944 ...60's SoCal rules !! The best of times, the best of places.
bharfarar 4 months ago
@bharfarar NO DOUBT BECAUSE SOUTHERN CAL IS WHERE ITS @ MY FRIEND THANK YOU FOR THE POSITIVE REPLY.
bx944 3 months ago
The employees at Furrypartners enjoy listening to music while we work and play each day...
furrypartners 4 months ago
songs like this make an old man weep for those long lost days of his youth. ah, Betty, Betty, where are you and my youth now. how i miss you both. god, how we sped down the open highways of Illinois in the '60's listening to the greatest music ever played. the wind blowing in the car windows, swirling your hair around your beautiful face. the feel of your hand squeezing mine. the sunshine, the way it made your face glow and your smile! how it made my heart glow. all gone, gone.
lactatingdog 4 months ago 10
@lactatingdog , You are right my friend. I can only tell you that this life is just a dream, sometime a nice and beautiful one, sometimes a nightmare; but those are the memories that make our lfe worth of living. Have a great day!.
Eduardovital 4 months ago
@lactatingdog THE BEST IS YET TO COME MY FRIEND. HAVE FAITH AND BE THANKFUL GOD BLESS YOU.
bx944 3 months ago
@lactatingdog
Gas guzzlers and 5 cent gas?
radiowwww 3 months ago
@lactatingdog That was really heartfelt. Good thing I'm still young!
ashtonmadhatter 3 months ago
@lactatingdog ditto brother, ditto!
theJetta1995 4 weeks ago
@lactatingdog It's only "gone" if you forget...
Dicedude 1 week ago
When in base camp while in Nam, I would be drinking the 3.2 beer, and listen to the military radio station that played music like this. It's nice to remember something about that war that didn't include violence.
dogleg97 4 months ago 4
@dogleg97 How does it feel to be betrayed by the very same government that opened the floodgates via Hart-Celler (1965 Immigration Reform Act)? Drive through neighborhoods where not one house has Old Glory on display except the "crabby well assimilated old people who can't run back to the nations of their forebearers"?
PASCHDigiMedia 1 week ago
This was simply beautiful music.
Ferrum2004 4 months ago 3
Ive commented on "Id Like To Get" by S&OG...Now here I am with one of THE 3 records that defined my Chicagoland childhood. THIS, & Face The Autumn, & I Love You So Much...are potent. Almost too much. God bless & goodbye! Write me if u shared these feelings...wow!!!!
MultiBudboy 5 months ago
Wow! Sweet memories of hearing this song on the "Breakfast Show" on Voice of America's short wave program while living on the distant shores of Asia. They sure don't make them like that anymore. Brings tears to my eyes.
musicollector1975 5 months ago
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musicollector1975 5 months ago
First time I heard this song was right after I got out of school (6th grade) on a sunny September, 1967 talk about a song fitting the genre!
chuckbuckbobuck 5 months ago
OOPS!
I meant to say reel to reel recorders, not reel to reel records.
Mea Culpa
TheGranule 5 months ago
A lot of younger guys don't even know that we had reel to reel records like a studio has.
We recorded 6 hours or more of our own programming from our records or off the radio. We produced our own records from our living rooms.
We had quad surround sound speakers and records that were made to be played on them. Nice.
Now we have CDs and iTunes. Egad.
TheGranule 5 months ago
Lazy Days is second only to Sunday will Never be the Same !!! Nothin' Like a Spanky McFarlan Blast from my past !!!! THANKS!
Seahawkwes 5 months ago
She is my aunt, haha, I cant believeit :D
masonrox2547 5 months ago
Great music, because thats what it was all about, THE MUSIC!, nowadays, the recording artists don't care, as long as their pockets are full.
MrHevychevy 6 months ago
So much great music in the 60s and 70s. Today's music is CRAP in comparison.
chisaoboy 6 months ago 2
I had a copy of this song long ago (either a 45 or album) and at 1:21 all the band members would say "Hello". Every version I've heard lately has only the organ. Anybody know where the version I heard came from?
MrCombat1965 6 months ago
Nice song, nice voice. But how does it feel to be the first generation in American history which can say, "Our children and grandchildren will not do as well as we did?" Oh, but those memories will get your through.
93931245 6 months ago 2
Hey, let's lay down and drink some lemonade.
MrGuruboy30 6 months ago
When I die...Heaven for me would be 1967, we had a war going, but everything else was GROOVY....poppa
MrPoppa2 7 months ago
Amen brother/sister!
Panther0653 7 months ago
Young carefree hippie, what a time it was...
designgraphics3 7 months ago 2
MASTS ACE ON THE PAGE!~
benjafflolz 7 months ago
"What a day for licking daisy and busting her balloons..."
fscap811 8 months ago
Such a happy group--Spanky n Our gang--Lazy day-just right for puddin on--SPanky and our Gang !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jimmatera 8 months ago
great song but what's with the fucking camels?
MrBuddha55 8 months ago
This is one of my "go to" songs when I'm feeling down. Thanks Tweasha.
edwardhl1 9 months ago
It looks like you had a beautiful "lazy day" at the park. I think you captured the essence of the song well.
46razzledazzle 10 months ago
For anyone interested: Masta Ace used this song for his (in my opinion brilliant) track Take A Walk. Always nice to find out where hiphop samples come from. Greetings from Amsterdam!
Leidsehoodie 10 months ago
WHY ALL OF THE MEDICAL SUPPLY ADDS???
sixtiesforever1966 11 months ago
I'm a Hendrix maniac. I like that fast hard stuff. but I can slow down. I'm not that closed mided, love this song!
cumulo25 11 months ago
raynageotte You are a freaking douche. If you don't like this then fast froward to the tunes your type listen too. I will take a "Lazy Day" over "Bitch suck my black dick", "Kill my parents." Piss off wannabe troll.
undertkr2001 11 months ago
@undertkr2001 Undershorts--why don't you go get stoned. My type listens to 60's stuff because that's where are heads matured on good pot back then. Lazy day for weiners who hang around the mall on saturdays.
raynageotte 11 months ago
@raynageotte BTW bro, I do get stoned. Sometimes I get really stoned. I apologize very much. That attack was meant for someone else. You seem to have your head on straight about music, so again, please accept my apology. Rock on raynagoette,
undertkr2001 11 months ago
@undertkr2001 I accept and long live Peperland.
raynageotte 11 months ago
love multi-voices in songs...very infectious optimism.
sternersteverizonnet 1 year ago
glad to hear the original after having been put on to it by MASTA ACE
frenchy3414 1 year ago
What the hell happened to groups like this? We had these folks, Seekers, Association, We Five....groups that had voices that actually harmonized. There was a truly poetic blend of music and voice that hasn't been heard since. There definitely has been good music in the decades since (minus the last 10 yrs or so), but this was like magic. To be part of a band you actually had to be able to sing a particular range or scale or whatever you call it, not just doing your own thing.
Disco58 1 year ago 2
@Disco58 These groups back then were on drugs and often hallucinated togeather and got stoned alot togeather and when they had band practice in their basements or garages time did not matter so they practiced alot harmonois while stoned into the night and eventually got real good at singing. Drugs can do this ya know.
Most bands like these never dawned on them they were good singers because they only experienced psychedelic images of themselves but saw the crowds clapping when they played.
raynageotte 1 year ago
@raynageotte
Don't take this wrong...you are an idiot.
Not everyone was on LSD 24/7 as you suggest. I know, I was there; never touched anything stronger than Schlitz or Falstaff Draft (in the handy quart bottle); so grow up and buzz off, or buzz off & grow up - or just buzz off.
Sargethemedic1 10 months ago
@Sargethemedic1 I can tell you never got high except on beer. Are you a Lazy Days Beer drinker? Get with reality !
raynageotte 10 months ago
@Sargethemedic1 Schlitz and Falstaff? That's LSD in a bottle. Like the handy quart bottle.
mrREDBIRDFAN 10 months ago
@Disco58 i'm a fellow 60's kid, and agree with your comments -- a lot of the younger people can't be expected to understand pre-texting types of fun (my 16 yearold daughter might side with raynageotte ,though i have influenced her elsewise, and she has always been more level-headed than her peers...) ---- i just like to think about it all this way : i'm secure in the fact that our generation's music was far superior to the junk that's put out these days, and rap&such only makes our music shine
akibubba1 4 months ago
this song is depressing somehow.
eslubin 1 year ago
This song is gottsta be about drugs. No one sees people in a park always smiling at each other and kids saying hello... unless yor on an acid trip like these guys.
raynageotte 1 year ago
@raynageotte
You apparently didn't grow up in the 60's like some of us did. The 60's weren't all "psychedelic", nor were they all good, but... Along with the strife there was plenty of just light happy life, like these songs speak of.
Disco58 1 year ago
i love Spanky
garebear1015 1 year ago
@garebear1015 These freaks should sing about people hanging out at the mall--not a park. Hip kids go to the mall. There you see kids smiling because they can buy things and maybe see some friends. You can't do that in a park. They had malls back then.
raynageotte 1 year ago
When you listen to a song like this you realise the pop music artists of today have absolutely no idea about melody and backing vocals and to how make a great sounding pop record.
bigbirdandsnuffyfan 1 year ago 3
Llamas, Alpaca's, behind electric fence. Awesome!
zx1400a7f 1 year ago
Pretty much sums up our crews day as outside workers for the city!
Lazy day, what a day for a cruise around town.
Lazy day, what a day for beers in the park.
Lazy day, what a day for a nap in the truck.
Lazy day, what a day for watchin' a game.
7Lscjracer 1 year ago
Masta Ace unfortunately ruined this song and renamed it to Take a Walk :(
JesusSmegma 1 year ago
@JesusSmegma your a clown
CostanzaThePig 1 year ago
hows that hope and change working out for you,,,,
pinewood189 1 year ago
I took this wonderful music for granted, I thought it would never end. How wrong I was. What I wouldn't give for people to write and perform this kind or music again!
villageguy13 1 year ago
sixties forever.......
justclassicalguitar 1 year ago 9
Yes, wildmanbigfoot ! I heard this today in the supermarket and just had to hear it again. I loved itthan and love it now !
AstringOfPoloponies 1 year ago
What a day for licking daisy and lots of red baboons....
blabblab1212 1 year ago
Blue skies, sunshine, what a day to take a shit on the lawn.............
blabblab1212 1 year ago
@blabblab1212 It's such a lazy day that I'm sittin on my nuts and don't feel like movin.
vinkleman 1 year ago
Far and away my favorite song by them. Love it. Thanks so much for posting it.
1GayTomas 1 year ago 3
Had completely forgotten this one! FAB
853bethanne 1 year ago
Yes!
peasant1 1 year ago
GREAT TUNE--LOVE SPANKY
bobaloo47 1 year ago
@bobaloo47 Her voice is almost as good as Mama Cass. Almost.
tonywallacess45 1 year ago
Does anybody else find the video hilarious with this song? No, just me? Okay...
swams0 1 year ago
@swams0 : I never watched the video, I just put it on to listen ;-).
mamacarla 1 year ago
It's Lazy "DAY" not "DAYS"
psnTurok35 1 year ago
This song is AWSOME !!!
psnTurok35 1 year ago
i love picking dazys and red baloons
truexromancex 1 year ago
thank you tweasha for posting, every now I visit this song on You Tube, good to hear music with melody and harmony, sadly lacking in today's crap music.
bigbirdandsnuffyfan 1 year ago
I really love this song; always have always will
78mathman 1 year ago
Masta Ace
foxrod1 1 year ago 23
@foxrod1 Saints Row!!!
BLACKOUT311 8 months ago
im a kid only 14 but i love this music i just want to stay in the past with everything.
TheDangboy 1 year ago
The sixties sun,my sister and me on a big rock by the river this song struggling to be released from to two dollar transistor radio.Memories caress my needful soul. Bear Walks Laughing
rayw1974 1 year ago
What a GREAT song....pure 60's---if the kids today only knew how great it was to grow up back then..........Where is this music today????
tennispro561 1 year ago
@tennispro561 yeah, i had a glorious childhood!
truth2masses 1 year ago
SPANKY had an incredible set of pipes. Her voice range exceded that of mama cass
PiggusVomitus 1 year ago
This song brings back lovely but painful memories of my high school sweetheart whom I didn't marry, but should have. It's been almost thirty years since we broke up, but I still think of her practically every day. I see her beautiful face in my dreams and I wake up heartsick. If I could go back in time, I would beg her to take me back and work things out. My life has never been right since she left it.
fscap811 1 year ago 2
@fscap811 I hear ya. but you need to get things rolling. I had a heartache that lasted for about 30 years... I was 22 when we broke up. Took me over 30 years to understand that she was NOT 'the' one... although the heart can deceive like nothing else in the universe
7vitaman 1 year ago
I have shared this wonderful music with my adult daughters and they are now fans of those incredible women vocalists of the 60's. Elaine---THANK YOU. LOVE YOU FOREVER!!
gattosub 1 year ago
I miss this very much, my neighbor, good man, did three tours of prison said something that sticks with me and will all of my life., said he was a bad guy, today, he tells me that he just wants to be left alone to live his life. A unique concept!
badattitude77769 1 year ago
Please help to bring back "Suzanne" which has been removed by someone. Now what's up with that? I am noticing that several of the Spanky & our Gang songs have been removed. Someone please re-post! Thanks
454something 1 year ago
I love this song! We sing this with our barbershop quartet, never knew who sang the original.
mamacarla 1 year ago
a real feel good song
ajjules1 1 year ago 2
If I could bring back the 60's, I'd do it in a heartbeat,fortunatly we still have the music. Remember driving around the lake at Fairmont Park in Riverside, on Sunday afternoon new 67 Camaro rs/ss 396...listening to this music...Wow, does'nt get any better...love...poppa
MrPoppa2 1 year ago 3
MrPoppa2, a fellow Riversider!! I didn't do the cruising aroung Fairmont Park till the early 70's but I know what you mean. Those were good days back then. The kids today don't know what they're missing. Oh yeah, and my sister's boyfriend drove us in his totally cool (so wh thought) purple El Camino.
lasktguy 1 year ago
this song is so cheerful. the 60's wasn't all bad.
mattratt512 1 year ago
This song reminds me of "Point Blank" with Lee Marvin.
ecnalubma696969 1 year ago
I was a friend of George Fischoff, who wrote "Lazy Day". I wish this stuff was back again.
nickellodeon55 1 year ago 4
I love the innocent songs of the past. Nothing today compares. Thank you for posting, and for the great memories.
scubawrestler 1 year ago
What lovely videos and the song is wonderful:) Thank you for posting friend:)
lancetop 1 year ago
Tweasha, did I ever say thanx 4 posting this?
mikkiratt 1 year ago
Nice sound quality. The pictures help break things up, too. Nothing more static than an album cover for entire songs.
michiganois 1 year ago
F... rap music. It is a politically correct means of expression. Let the assholes who think it has artistic value kill themselves all off. Give me this positive type of thought anyday! Peace out all you rap music mofo's.
brunoig 1 year ago
Listening to this song made me think -- Have you ever heard a rap song that was this happy? Actually, have you ever heard a happy rap song at all? Seriously, is there one?
KnightHawk111 1 year ago
@KnightHawk111
YEAH U FORGOT ABOUT WILL SMITH LOL!!!!!
ROACHLOC 1 year ago
This wonderful music touched the heart and soul like no other music from the groovin' 60's. I was just three when this song came out in '67, but if I had a time machine I would go back and indulge in all the good times and music the sixties had to offer, it seemed like fun never ever ended in the sixties. Free love, awesome music, awesome cars and a time where
there was no hurry for anything but a good time....please dear lord bring these times back!!!!!!!
AllAmerican1964 1 year ago 2
@AllAmerican1964--
Your posting got me. I hear what you're thinking. I'm with ya, pal!
This is on my 'favorites' list, and I ended up playing this and many other tunes from the fabulous 1960's and some '70's for some old friends tonite, too.
It might sound strange to you and other younger folks out there, but I'm glad I
am 55 years old,because I got to live in the most wonderful period of time.
The 60's and 70's were better than you can imagine! I'm lost in the 60's!
Blessed 'Be
ThatMiserableCat 1 year ago 2
amen!!!!!
slej2001 1 year ago
@AllAmerican1964 You hit the nail right on the head, it was a time of discovery, and re-discovery.
It is a pleasure to know rhat you have such an open mind on that era, you being so young...good for you, maintaining your memory:-)
DSVOP 1 year ago
I wish i could go back to the good old days just one more time : )
jjjay69 1 year ago 14
@jjjay69 Don't we all! But I'm afraid it's all downhill from here. I'd send you to the "World population" site, but that's too depressing after hearing this great tune.
RaumVogel 9 months ago 2
@RaumVogel Sounds like the reality check backfired. You got the wrong answer. Having your own reality is far better than theirs.
I believe in LIFE before death. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Lengo67 7 months ago
@jjjay69
ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!
MrMoniz1 9 months ago
@jjjay69
I surely wouldn't want to come back.
climax522 8 months ago
@climax522 I take it that your past wasn't roses : )
jjjay69 8 months ago
@jjjay69
Au contraire ! It's the 21st century that I wouldn't want to come back to :-(
climax522 8 months ago
@jjjay69 What's stopping you? You can move mountains if you believe you can, and men have done this. You can make your own reality. Listen to sixties tunes all the time! There's lots of good vibration still left in it. You'll catch the fever once again. BELIEVE!
Lengo67 7 months ago
@Lengo67 Like your reply & true. Just our age isn't here anymore LOL!!
jjjay69 7 months ago
@jjjay69 me too!!
MissKaren1958 7 months ago
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jjjay69 1 year ago
Not only is the music wistful and nostalgic in itself, but almost forces the modern day listener to become nostalgic for the period in which it was produced. Who cares? Thanks for posting this classic.
martinjp1958 1 year ago 2
Yes, I was born in 1972 and it definitely has that effect on me. I feel as if I am there when I listen to this. No feeling quite like it. The 60's-70's are the ultimate.
bixbyglaser 1 year ago 4
Love this group...she was soooo cute...natural beauty.
Kimmell2010 1 year ago 3
Great harmonies! There was so much memorable music being made then, it's impossible not to be nostalgic for it. And it was about love, and change for the better, with a hopefulness you never experience anymore. Our culture was young, we were young, anything seemed possible...! Cynical people try to make me feel silly for enjoying that, but the feeling young people had that said, "Wait a minute, maybe we really can change things!" can't be allowed to disappear. Don't lose hope! Listen!
bmiltonb 1 year ago 3
@bmitonb--
Great handle you've got?
Anyway, just had to say you said it all!
Good deal! Yeah, I lived during this wonderful period of time, and this was the sort of music we were just taking for granted. So much wonderful stuff was coming out of the 60's, and I do miss the 1960's a whole lot.
Blessed 'Be
ThatMiserableCat 1 year ago
Ditto!!!
rakeuiff 1 year ago 2
Masta ace - take a walk
ThaBelgian 1 year ago
If I could go back in time , I wouldn't think about it twice. I would just get the heck out of this mess.
bluemisan 2 years ago 3
hi , thank you for all the comments on here , i am tweasha,i cant log into myself ,as tweasha
ineedatimemachine 2 years ago
A Pure Classic............Timeless.
doctorted 2 years ago
i first heard this song at the chatterbox
riptorna556 2 years ago
Yes, a great tune. Thanks for the upload tweasha.
Larry, Taiwan
TheyCallMeGroucho 2 years ago
mmm, beauty :)
MrBuckwilliam 2 years ago
I am a product of the 1960's and I've gotten kind of nostalgic within the last year or so.....However, I am very happy to have relocated this tune...... This is one
of the great songs of the 60's !!!! I'm lovin' it ! (smile)
sunking6 2 years ago
What a great song! I had forgotten how much I liked it. As a matter-of-fact, I like it better now than I did then probably because I am not under the pressure of being in my 20's and facing becoming an adult in the ridiculous '60's.
This song gives so much pleasure and makes you smile!
Halo101st 2 years ago
@Halo and sunking--
Agreed !! ;)
What a great tune--so typical of the 60's! Simply wonderful!
I miss much of the 60's. Sure, there were things then, like now, that could be better, but still !!
I feel sorry for the young folks these days. We had so much terrific music then, and I can only say that 'some' music today is O.K.--but still nothing like then!
Love to All--
Blessed 'Be!
ThatMiserableCat 2 years ago
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH FOR THIS! You brought my smile back!
goober5151 2 years ago
Thank you for this video.One of my favorite songs from when I was growing up.
CUBFAN56 2 years ago
By far one of my favorites from this era. I like it so much, I made it a favorite on my profile!
jimmygale 2 years ago 4
triple snack, here come the brides the green hornet and tasty freeze on the south side of chicago when this song came out! i was about 9 years old then.
truth2masses 2 years ago
Love this song. As far as I'm concerned, the late '60s were as good as music has ever been. I was in my early teens, and we just took great songs for granted.
pudmaak 2 years ago 52
@pudmaak Wouldn't you like to do it all over again ?
kimsanda 1 year ago
@pudmaak yes, I agree..we took them for granted in large part because we had no idea music would evolve into the veritable garbage 'most' of it is today!!
njmhk 1 year ago 2
@pudmaak I was born in 64 and wondered why music was so wonderful. Turns out i was just listening to the prime time of Pop, Rock, and Bubble gum rock. No better time then the late sixties. Actually 65-72.
scottystrider 1 year ago 2
@pudmaak
Well said! The late 60's (I was a preteen then) gave us so much music that was enjoyable to the max! Truly classic stuff! This song never fails to put a smile on my face & touch my heart. THANKS for your insightful comment! May all your wishes & dreams come true in the New Year! :-)
JubalCalif 1 year ago
@pudmaak THAT IS A HISTORICAL FACT MY FRIEND......The 1960's and 1970's had a music industry like has NEVER been known in HISTORY.......IT IS NOT just that we were young........
sierracuban 10 months ago 33
@sierracuban lol keep dreaming. The 70's were nothing special. Heck, even the "early 80's" had more of an impact than most music fromt he 70's. Note the emphasis on early 80's. The latter half of the decade (1987-1989) were probably the worst three years in pop music history lol. Too many boy bands, hair bands, and that's when rap got it's start.
hospitalbedpan1 5 months ago
@hospitalbedpan1 REALLY ???? THE 1970's WERE NOTHING SPECIAL IN MUSIC ??? IN WHAT YEAR WERE YOU BORN ???? THE 1970's WERE THE YEARS OF THE RICHEST MUSIC INDUSTRY IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD......I DON' T NEED TO DREAM FACTS........
sierracuban 5 months ago
@hospitalbedpan1 OK, there was some good music in the early 80's, BUT the 60's and 70's were a music explosion the like of which hasn't been seen since
jeff93534 5 months ago 3
@jeff93534 well, I agree on the 60's but not the 70's.
Most of the 70's were simply a continuation of the music from the 60's. It took the really late 70's and first half of the 80's to really change the music scene. There is a reason why modern bands sample that era more than anything else previously.
And if you look at some newer bands like the killers and good charlotte (dance floor anthem), their most memorable songs copied the new wave format. And by the way, I hate good charlotte :-)
hospitalbedpan1 5 months ago
@jeff93534
I was a baby (literally) in the late sixties and the memory of hearing all of this stuff on long trips stays with me to this day. It's basically all I listen to.
veritasvg 4 months ago
@sierracuban I agree! Lots of youtube comments I've read in recent years state: "I wish I were born sooner," or " I'd like to have a time machine...." Even the youth of our nation acknowledges that the music in our era is a lot superior to today's tunes.
Helivz 5 months ago
@sierracuban ...an indisputable fact....right on !
bharfarar 3 months ago