As I listen to this song, my heart goes back to my first love and to my surprise we found each other on facebook and have been good friends ever since. Thank-you for saving this song from obscurity and putting us together once again and forever.
I remember hearing this song playing during my sweet 16 birthday party, I had a 50s/60s theme, everyone got to dress up from either era. Ever since then I've been hooked, I feel so nostalgic listening to it and can't help but feel a little dreamy-eyed too. "Bright stars and guitars and drive ins on Fridays nights, these are a few of the things we love. Maybe silly, but still he is, just what I dreamed about, yes he's the boy that I love." *sigh*
I am just now trying to catch up on Kim Fowley, who is truly remarkable. He can't be pigeonholed can he? Certainly not music-wise. Contrast this beautiful slice of Girl Group Innocence with the terrifying, but hilarious Animal Man (It's on Youtube) Then there is Alley-Oop, #1 in 1960. He produced them all. Any advice on where to start in catching up with his
music? Maybe his solo albums. (I have sampled them, and Wow! real good stuff!)
Hi Sally! I have always loved this song, and it is an honor for me to be able to allow the world to hear such a wonderful song that has undoubtedly left an indelible impression on so many minds!
Hi Sir David! Thanks for your message. I wish you a very happy New Year of good health, love, peace, friendship, music, and all else your heart desires. All the best, Sally
Teri and I were in the school choir together and had a mutual friend who called me to do the record session because her mother wanted her to do the ironing!. The song became popular in November much to our surprise because of a DJ in San Francisco who gave it alot of airplay. It reached No. 3 in Billboard, Louie Louie was N° 1! David Gates wrote the song, Kim Fowley produced it. Stan Ross was the studio engineer.
Hi! This is Sally Gordon of the Murmaids. Thank you all for your wonderful comments. You can't imagine what a thrill it is to hear them after all these years. We recorded the tune in June 1963 when Teri and I were in the 12th grade. Teri's father also was a composer. He wrote two songs recorded by Billie Holiday.
@sgordonmark Hi Sally; We spoke last year. You told me that "Popsicles" was released to the radio stations shortly after being recorded, and it was their own decision about how soon to start playing it, so (per my recollection) it may have been heard on the radio by late summer. That's an interesting bit of trivia. No need to respond; you were so generous with your time last year. I was just responding, mostly, to your comment that this song is still so well-liked these many years later.
@57highland Hi, thanks for the message. I think what I said was that a disc jockey in a San Francisco radio station liked the song and gave it alot of airplay. This helped promote the record which I think was a hit in October or November, as I had started college. Thanks for your interest. All the best, Sally
The singers were two teenage sisters and their neighbor. The song almost hit #1 in the U.S., but they never received a nickel. The record company kept everything, and sent them a "reconciliation" charging exhorbitant amounts of money against the royalties they were supposed to have received.
I remember this came out in 1963, I was 13 and just starting to listen to the radio. Only classical and jazz was allowed in the house. It's always been one of my favorite oldies. And one of the hardest to find a recording of.
I play this alot and I have it bookmarked. This and another song "You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry" by the Caravelles, takes me back to my days of innocence.
@TheManofDistinction This song came out in late 1963 but reached number one the week before "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and is often known as the last pre-British Invasion era song to be #1.
I am an 8 1/2 year boy again after hearing this song! I was living in Azusa, California and I still have technicolor memories of that era when I hear these early 60s' songs...
These kind of songs take me back to the innocent years of my youth. I was born in 1956. Things were much simpler and pure back then. Thanks for sharing with a captive audience.
I remember this song! It brings back memories of summer vacation (I just finished 2nd grade and was about to enter the 3rd grade). Wow :) :) :) The song was written by a songwriter named David Gates, who would enter fame in the early 1970s with his group, BREAD.
Good-gads, the memories this song brings back. Nothing really specific but that whole era. There are other songs that bring back memoriess but this one really defines my experiences then. I heard it so much on the radio. Good times, good times.
I was born in 1958 in Tulsa OK, This was written by David Gates who graduated from Will Rogers High School, Tulsa OK in 1958. I believe it was his first hit . He then formed the band Bread. Note: Leon Russell went to the same High School about the same time
Then teenage sisters Carol and Terry Fisher and friend, Sally Gordon were the Murmaids. As mentioned in an earlier comment, Popsicles and Icicles was written
by David Gates of Bread. This is the first time I've ever seen a picture of the group
Lovely song of those wonderful times! Damn that I am getting old now, but so happy I was a boomer, brought up in this country's sweet-spot, the 1950s-1960s. Speak, memory!
Every aspect of this song works so well, including all the instrumentation, & not just the obvious, i.e. the wonderful vocal melodies & harmonies...The drumming too is brilliant & contributes a lot to the song's appeal! This "little '60s pop song" has some sophisticated & compelling rhythms going on in it, thanks to that drummer, who ever he may be!
@Bobjb999 The arrangements on these classics was amazing..what brilliance both in the studio and in the production booth...growing up in the 60s I never realized how much genius was around...but I did know enough to love the Beatles music =)
Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
Talk about back to our priveleged and innocent age of the late 50's and early 60's. This song brings me back to the days of driving down to Long Beach Island, NJ in our 1964 Bonneville convertible and songs like this on the radio . Sun and surf and the whole summer was ours.
I was born in 1963 and can remember quite vividly, the music of the 60s and 70s coming in from the 'AM Radio' my parents had put in the kitchen and bathroom.
I wouldn't trade growing up with those songs for anything in the whole world!
@TheManofDistinction Radios in the kitchen and bathroom, that was living large back in the early 60's and the music was good too. I felt like a millionare with my first transistor in 1962.
@crazyromanian1 -- You bet. Pre-Beatles. We didn't need them. There was a wealth of goodtimes and fun music. But it's all good. I'm just thinking, people ought to know there was much music in America before the Beatles. But that Kennedy thing. It killed us all, and we needed a foreign sound to break us all outta the cold war blues. You can say it was the best of times and the worst of times. I say, it's what we got. It's all good. It has to be. It's all we've got. Now, then, and tomorrow.
@TheManofDistinction i know what you mean I was born in 1954 and my older sister constantly had a radio on. There was always pop/rock music in the background of my life. Before I could afford a real transistor radio I would buy one of theose dollar crystal radios shaped like a rocket and clip the lead wire to the light switch near my bed. Remember those? Cheapo crystal radios?
My dad and little me... eating at Jim's Burger Haven in Colorado. It was around '84. I realized that with my messy face at five.. I was born too late. :/
We all have to live and die, so the truth about life and death concerns and applies to us all. True or false? Search "TRUTH CONTEST" in Google and click the 1st result, then open The Present and read what it says to learn the Truth. Let's get serious and honest about the truth of life.
@janetatp: After reading your post, thought I'd let you know I'm a songwriter. When my mom passed on to the other side, I was inspired to write one called, "I Miss You, Mom." It helped me go through the pain I felt at the time. I've shared it with others who told me it helped them, as well. Email me back if you like, and let me know if you'd like for me to send a copy to you, either by inet or USPS. I'm glad to be able to do this at no cost.
Reminds me of my beautiful Mom, who died in 2000. She had a red 1962 Pontiac Catalina and this song was playing on the car radio when she pulled into the driveway.
It's like it happened yesterday...Thanks for the upload.
@LMHS63 I know my mom dies in 1961 at Christmas...these old songs remind me of those times...I still miss her so much and I was 11 when she slipped away...
@CuervoMa1 Amazing how we think of our moms when we listen to all these old songs.my moms left me Oct 23, 2008 and Almost Every Old song of this era reminds me of her. her favorite was by lesley Gore..Thats the way Boys are 1964. whenever she would hear this song years later even in the Winter of her life..a twinkle would be in her eyes she would smile..pat her feet nod her head and think back to 1964. although she was in her 90s she would just live Up when this type of music came on.
@blkshepherd Thanks for sharing your memories, Lost my mom Sept 27, 2008 "age 84" three years tomorrow she would sing along and catch the beat to Neil Diamond's Cracklin Rosie, She loved that song XO Caprice
@327caprice wow, amazing..you lost your moms a month before i lost mine..so you know Exactly what I am still going through. My eyes welded this morning as i was on my way to work when i thought of my moms. There not a day that goes by I dont think of her atleast once during the course of a day. great lost. but it feels good to talk with others who Share the same lost. and memories..god bless.
@blkshepherd : After reading your post, thought I'd let you know I'm a songwriter. When my mom passed on to the other side, I was inspired to write one called, "I Miss You, Mom." It helped me go through the pain I felt at the time. I've shared it with others who told me it helped them, as well. Email me back if you like, and let me know if you'd like for me to send a copy to you, either by inet or USPS. I'm glad to be able to do this at no cost.
@CuervoMa1 After reading your post, thought I'd let you know I'm a songwriter. When my mom passed on to the other side, I was inspired to write one called, "I Miss You, Mom." It helped me go through the pain I felt at the time. I've shared it with others who told me it helped them, as well. Email me back if you like, and let me know if you'd like for me to send a copy to you, either by inet or USPS. I'm glad to be able to do this at no cost.
I WAS TRAVELING TO SOUTH CAROLINA AT THE AGE OF 10 WHEN IHEARD THIS SONG. I ENJOYED IT SO MUCH THAT I STILL SING A FEW BARS OF THE TUNE EVERY KNOW AND THEN .SUCH MEMORIES.
WoW..this brings back many a dream! I remember the California CIF Football games on Friday nights. California back then was a beautiful dream..and now? Well I won't spoil this song sweet memory, but I will say that I left my native California..but it was a beautiful dream at one time and when I hear this song it brings back that special space in time for me.
@dreadlockrob1 Just by loving and listening to this music makes you a part of it, If you do some research on this particular era you will understand it much better too. Listen, read, go online and watch documentaries on this era of the early sixties A great documentary to start with is "GIRL GROUPS, THE STORY OF A SOUND" (1983) Good Luck and lemme know what you think.
I was born in 1979. This is a very guilty pleasure song for me. I listen to it alone, and never in front of my friends. I keep playing it over and over
What a tremendous song ! One of my favorite tunes...My senior year in high school in 1964 is defined by this song...Too bad the Murmaids broke up soon after recording P&I, since they were all headed to college in California. I still get chill bumps every time I hear this song...
I was a nine year old top-40 radio listener when this song was a hit in early '64.
It was one of those special '60s songs with an such emotive melody & vocal performance, & so affecting for me, as to transport my young mind to some mysterious & blissful, slightly other-worldly realm (one where seductive-voiced "murmaids" dwell, apparently!). Discovering this Murmaids song was a little like finding the perfect psychoactive drug, but one with no bad side effects, health risks, or legality issues!
@Bobjb999 Well I was a year behind you and when I received a transistor radio for my birthday I was in total bliss!!.....many nights with the radio to my ear so my parents didn't know I was still awake at 11:30 at night, listening to all of the top 40 hits....what a magical time!!
@Bobjb999 Music is the message of our inner being. To me the music of the 1930's and the 1960's had all of the elements of the ethereal. The opening organ to Light My Fire, and the song White Bird do it for me. That and Mr. Limpet.
@Bobjb999 It was in the spring of my 10 grade when this was out , and oh does it take me back to a time when i didn't have a care in the world. This is a feel good song. And transister radios had an ear plug so you didn't get in trouble late at night.
The Murmaids were a one-hit wonder all-female vocal trio composed of sisters Carol and Terry Fischer; and Sally Gordon from Los Angeles, California who, in January 1964 reached #3 with this song.
@rorigiles Yeah Carol and Terry Fischers Father Carl Fischer was the Music Arranger for Frankie Laine? Both my parents loved Frankie Laine I thought that was pretty cool.
@swain199 Cruisin on a Saturday night, drag racin' on the back roads, ah the fun of it all. Well before Viet Nam when life was much simpler. And you could understand the words!!
@sgordonmark Hello there Sally. I collect records from the 50's and 60's and I virtually have thousands. Of all those 45's, this is the one that is the most nostalgic to me. It hit the winter of 1963/1964 and I purchased that 45 and all the rest you ladies released. I also have the LP. Thanks for the music. I see you are my age and I think you'll agree. That was the best era for music. Take care, Ronnie
@jamiesalyer Thanks very much for your message, Ronnie. I appreciate what you said and agree that we were lucky to have experienced the golden age of rock. Remember how we'd wait for the Top 10 to come out on the radio every week or was it every month? American Bandstand, slow dancing, swing dancing, it was all great fun. Thanks for reminding me. Happy New Year!! All best wishes, Sally
@sgordonmark Hello Sally this is Sir David from New York USA, I noticed that YouTube have been deleting uploads of Popsickles and Icicles for copyright infringement. I know who wrote it but who has copyright for it?
Would not want to loose all of the downloads of it. I have been notifying people that have uploaded it incase if it is deleted.. And How is France with Snow? Here in New York we have in snow after snow storm all of January. Hope to see you on your home page
David Gates' first, and best, song ever!
chicotower 6 days ago
great song! written by David Gates( of bread fame) when he was a young fellar!~
gmkell59 1 week ago
Get your ears checked- -they are singing, Levis and brown eyes
thanduction 1 week ago
He loves meat pies... and brown eyes?
Worst. Lyrics. Ever. Shame... cause it's a nice melody.
moonpeep 1 week ago
As I listen to this song, my heart goes back to my first love and to my surprise we found each other on facebook and have been good friends ever since. Thank-you for saving this song from obscurity and putting us together once again and forever.
JonHeckendorf 2 weeks ago
Didn't the guy from Bread write this tune?
jmb92555 3 weeks ago
@jmb92555 you are correct--David Gates
nycbbbco 2 weeks ago
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Thanks, how could I forget...very talented guy. The song is a little (a lot?) like "My Favorite Things" in some ways.
jmb92555 2 weeks ago
Another Thank You..Memories..
vva4844 3 weeks ago
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Check out my uploads of the Carnival! Murmaids' member Terry Fischer was in the group in 1969.
TheQuietMan1952 3 weeks ago
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TheQuietMan1952 3 weeks ago in playlist Seleção do YouTube de The Murmaids
Hello great song I wrote to a girl group in France they done a cover of this song check out their channel SistersGoldenHair and leave a comment
jsteelman1000 1 month ago
Cha-cha anyone ??
4933juju 1 month ago
the one on the far left looks hot
jbbraham 1 month ago
when time was a hell of a lot chiller haha
puursuitofhappyness 1 month ago
yes-the PlainEsthetician.
a simpler time - keep those dreamy eyes....
*sigh*
stevanmadrigal 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
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They sounded so feminine!
Northatlantic2012 1 month ago
Whenever I want to go back to those days, I listen to this song (among others), but mainly this one.
Tony1949d 1 month ago 2
I remember hearing this song playing during my sweet 16 birthday party, I had a 50s/60s theme, everyone got to dress up from either era. Ever since then I've been hooked, I feel so nostalgic listening to it and can't help but feel a little dreamy-eyed too. "Bright stars and guitars and drive ins on Fridays nights, these are a few of the things we love. Maybe silly, but still he is, just what I dreamed about, yes he's the boy that I love." *sigh*
ThePlainEsthetician 1 month ago
@ThePlainEsthetician
It was a special time. Music like this takes me back.
Antlers68 1 month ago
I am just now trying to catch up on Kim Fowley, who is truly remarkable. He can't be pigeonholed can he? Certainly not music-wise. Contrast this beautiful slice of Girl Group Innocence with the terrifying, but hilarious Animal Man (It's on Youtube) Then there is Alley-Oop, #1 in 1960. He produced them all. Any advice on where to start in catching up with his
music? Maybe his solo albums. (I have sampled them, and Wow! real good stuff!)
dweml258 1 month ago
What a beautiful song! 489 likes and ZERO dislikes? Fabulous and well deserved. Oh, yes,
David Gates wrote this. Long before Bread
dweml258 1 month ago
I believe David Gates of Bread wrote this song,
MrBaseballstl 1 month ago
Murmaids should have more hits.
lonehorseman09 1 month ago
Hi Sally! I have always loved this song, and it is an honor for me to be able to allow the world to hear such a wonderful song that has undoubtedly left an indelible impression on so many minds!
TheManofDistinction 1 month ago
@TheManofDistinction CHATTAHOOCHEE records, right? Now there's a label for the ages! A great song and very good quality too.
mercury73732 1 month ago
@TheManofDistinction Hi! It really touches me to hear that. Thanks so much, Sally
sgordonmark 22 hours ago
Hi Sir David! Thanks for your message. I wish you a very happy New Year of good health, love, peace, friendship, music, and all else your heart desires. All the best, Sally
sgordonmark 1 month ago
We were on TV once on the Lloyd Thaxton show. It was a great experience for three teenage girls! Thanks to you all! Happy New Year, Sally
sgordonmark 1 month ago
Teri and I were in the school choir together and had a mutual friend who called me to do the record session because her mother wanted her to do the ironing!. The song became popular in November much to our surprise because of a DJ in San Francisco who gave it alot of airplay. It reached No. 3 in Billboard, Louie Louie was N° 1! David Gates wrote the song, Kim Fowley produced it. Stan Ross was the studio engineer.
sgordonmark 1 month ago
Hi! This is Sally Gordon of the Murmaids. Thank you all for your wonderful comments. You can't imagine what a thrill it is to hear them after all these years. We recorded the tune in June 1963 when Teri and I were in the 12th grade. Teri's father also was a composer. He wrote two songs recorded by Billie Holiday.
sgordonmark 1 month ago
@sgordonmark Hi Sally; We spoke last year. You told me that "Popsicles" was released to the radio stations shortly after being recorded, and it was their own decision about how soon to start playing it, so (per my recollection) it may have been heard on the radio by late summer. That's an interesting bit of trivia. No need to respond; you were so generous with your time last year. I was just responding, mostly, to your comment that this song is still so well-liked these many years later.
57highland 1 day ago
@57highland Hi, thanks for the message. I think what I said was that a disc jockey in a San Francisco radio station liked the song and gave it alot of airplay. This helped promote the record which I think was a hit in October or November, as I had started college. Thanks for your interest. All the best, Sally
sgordonmark 21 hours ago
beautiful song that i love, thanks for posting!
Matuguina11 1 month ago
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The singers were two teenage sisters and their neighbor. The song almost hit #1 in the U.S., but they never received a nickel. The record company kept everything, and sent them a "reconciliation" charging exhorbitant amounts of money against the royalties they were supposed to have received.
simbared 1 month ago
I remember this came out in 1963, I was 13 and just starting to listen to the radio. Only classical and jazz was allowed in the house. It's always been one of my favorite oldies. And one of the hardest to find a recording of.
49kasey 1 month ago
I play this alot and I have it bookmarked. This and another song "You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry" by the Caravelles, takes me back to my days of innocence.
Tony1949d 1 month ago
I believe David Gates of "Bread" wrote this little gem
michaelflorida56 2 months ago
I really loved this music and will forever more!
billeybop 2 months ago
I believe this song came out in 1964. . .
TheManofDistinction 2 months ago
@TheManofDistinction
Autumn, 1963
audrablonde 2 months ago
@TheManofDistinction This song came out in late 1963 but reached number one the week before "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and is often known as the last pre-British Invasion era song to be #1.
MVillani1985 1 month ago
@TheManofDistinction
October 1963
janetatp 1 month ago in playlist oldies rare
@TheManofDistinction
Released in October 1963 hit the charts in November 1963.
janetatp 1 month ago
@TheManofDistinction Close, it was 1963 !
kimsanda 1 month ago
@TheManofDistinction this song was at # 3 on 12/7/63 joel whitburn book of top 40 hits
MrRgd1948 1 week ago
Groovy!
TheTaoOfTheDude 2 months ago
I am an 8 1/2 year boy again after hearing this song! I was living in Azusa, California and I still have technicolor memories of that era when I hear these early 60s' songs...
Transterra55 2 months ago
Love this song. When did it come out? Mid-60's? thanks for posting
dstraightone 2 months ago
These kind of songs take me back to the innocent years of my youth. I was born in 1956. Things were much simpler and pure back then. Thanks for sharing with a captive audience.
SuperBrotherBob 2 months ago
this song is amazzing
jaquelinaballerina 2 months ago
I remember this song! It brings back memories of summer vacation (I just finished 2nd grade and was about to enter the 3rd grade). Wow :) :) :) The song was written by a songwriter named David Gates, who would enter fame in the early 1970s with his group, BREAD.
littlemikey1954 2 months ago
Remember it so well and love it. And the Popsicles. . . look so 60s.
ickiepoo 2 months ago
Excellent song!!!I was born in 1944 and remember it well.Thanks for the memories!
tippimail1 2 months ago
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TheManofDistinction 3 months ago
Absolutely love this song.... thanks.
49kasey 3 months ago
Glad I was able to help!
TheManofDistinction 3 months ago
I love the 60s, grew up with this stuff. Added it to my playlist!! Thanks babe for the memories...
SouthsideSlim11 3 months ago
love it all I grew up in it
kuchek 3 months ago
Good-gads, the memories this song brings back. Nothing really specific but that whole era. There are other songs that bring back memoriess but this one really defines my experiences then. I heard it so much on the radio. Good times, good times.
Tony1949d 3 months ago
Thank you MagicGary for the reply back :)
Tony1949d 3 months ago
Such a great song- so romantic -reminds me of warm summer nights in the early 60's-- driving with a cute guy. Those were the days....sigh.
gustfront180 3 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
The Fischer Sisters father Carl Fischer was a Music Arranger for Frankie Laine and I believe part time manager also!!
MagicGary1960 3 months ago
i was born 1960 ...i love the music my parents listened to back then :o) ~
heapbigtalk 3 months ago
what memories ... i was so blessed to have graduated in 1963...
MrGary917 3 months ago
I was born in 1958 in Tulsa OK, This was written by David Gates who graduated from Will Rogers High School, Tulsa OK in 1958. I believe it was his first hit . He then formed the band Bread. Note: Leon Russell went to the same High School about the same time
TheRichsooner 3 months ago
Then teenage sisters Carol and Terry Fisher and friend, Sally Gordon were the Murmaids. As mentioned in an earlier comment, Popsicles and Icicles was written
by David Gates of Bread. This is the first time I've ever seen a picture of the group
The song still sounds great today!.
owensclock 3 months ago
I Remember............
desert3347 3 months ago
I remember the Kennedy assassination being fresh on my mind when this song was on the radio.
65motowngirl 3 months ago
You are very welcome!
TheManofDistinction 3 months ago
Oh God...I LOVED this song...such a great CHICK song!!!! So romantic...love it! Thanks for posting1
gustfront180 3 months ago
^_^ a 1992 kid listening to greatest musical Time Ever. I wish I could of been born then. lol. c:
Lunatula 4 months ago
Makes you realize how good the music of the 60s was!!! THANKS
pobrepaco 4 months ago
Lovely song of those wonderful times! Damn that I am getting old now, but so happy I was a boomer, brought up in this country's sweet-spot, the 1950s-1960s. Speak, memory!
HickysBoy 4 months ago
Genius in simple basic production. yet the final product is so dimensional, and a beautiful snapshot of teen romance in the early 1960's.
rickyschultzusa 4 months ago
Every aspect of this song works so well, including all the instrumentation, & not just the obvious, i.e. the wonderful vocal melodies & harmonies...The drumming too is brilliant & contributes a lot to the song's appeal! This "little '60s pop song" has some sophisticated & compelling rhythms going on in it, thanks to that drummer, who ever he may be!
Bobjb999 4 months ago
@Bobjb999 The arrangements on these classics was amazing..what brilliance both in the studio and in the production booth...growing up in the 60s I never realized how much genius was around...but I did know enough to love the Beatles music =)
rds1958 4 months ago
A very pleasant song from my tender years. Thanks for putting in up.------Danny Sordello
dannysordello 4 months ago
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Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
robertoamor2011 4 months ago
wow i was 12 when this song came out i remember playing it over and over and over -still love it!!
poconopatie 4 months ago
I first heard this in Dec. 1963 in Anchorage.. What memories it brings back. Some bad, but most good!
Dlanorepmart 4 months ago
Talk about back to our priveleged and innocent age of the late 50's and early 60's. This song brings me back to the days of driving down to Long Beach Island, NJ in our 1964 Bonneville convertible and songs like this on the radio . Sun and surf and the whole summer was ours.
pdbrady650 4 months ago
I was born in 1963 and can remember quite vividly, the music of the 60s and 70s coming in from the 'AM Radio' my parents had put in the kitchen and bathroom.
I wouldn't trade growing up with those songs for anything in the whole world!
TheManofDistinction 4 months ago 20
@TheManofDistinction Same here born in 59
As a pre-teen my AM Radio had tubes and our
TV was black and white, Mercury and Gemini
space shots with tunes like these the soundtrack
for a wonderful childhood.
Winky395 4 months ago
@TheManofDistinction Radios in the kitchen and bathroom, that was living large back in the early 60's and the music was good too. I felt like a millionare with my first transistor in 1962.
crazyromanian1 3 months ago 6
@crazyromanian1 -- You bet. Pre-Beatles. We didn't need them. There was a wealth of goodtimes and fun music. But it's all good. I'm just thinking, people ought to know there was much music in America before the Beatles. But that Kennedy thing. It killed us all, and we needed a foreign sound to break us all outta the cold war blues. You can say it was the best of times and the worst of times. I say, it's what we got. It's all good. It has to be. It's all we've got. Now, then, and tomorrow.
Phil1stalk 3 days ago
@Phil1stalk Well stated!
22AGS 2 days ago
@TheManofDistinction ...Born in 66 and have the same exact memories...so cool!
minapuppa 3 months ago
@TheManofDistinction i know what you mean I was born in 1954 and my older sister constantly had a radio on. There was always pop/rock music in the background of my life. Before I could afford a real transistor radio I would buy one of theose dollar crystal radios shaped like a rocket and clip the lead wire to the light switch near my bed. Remember those? Cheapo crystal radios?
inkey2 1 month ago
My dad and little me... eating at Jim's Burger Haven in Colorado. It was around '84. I realized that with my messy face at five.. I was born too late. :/
janx1979 4 months ago
In January of 2014, this song will be 50 years old!
TheManofDistinction 4 months ago 5
@TheManofDistinction
Youngster
utahaztec 2 months ago
@TheManofDistinction Unbelievable!
jsbach15 2 months ago
I am very happy to hear that!
TheManofDistinction 4 months ago
Thank you! I haven't heard this song in almost 20 years. I've been waiting for it to play on the radio again, but your post came first.
davegoes 5 months ago
Great song written by David Gates of Bread. Great memories. You wish these girls were singing to you.
gkrewer1 5 months ago
Good gads, this song brings back a lot of memories. Indeed, my favorite times for pop/rock songs is the late 50s ~ early 70s. *sigh*
Tony1949d 5 months ago
Ah, the days when pop singers did not have to appear nearly naked on stage -- and when they actually had to be able to know something about harmony!
straightarrow372 5 months ago
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DemianHermann 6 months ago
Number one around Christmas 1963/New Years 1964
546mh 6 months ago
I remember this pretty much innocent tune played a few times -- trust u tube to have it
I can't believe almost fifty years have gone by since it was on the radio.
I pictured in my head back then that these girls were all blonde knock outs. God knows why!! The imagination of a 13 year old.
ranchwagoneer 6 months ago
I miss you Mo...........
janetatp 6 months ago
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jds2010ful 4 months ago
ICE CUBES AND BIG BOOBS
Skremlab 6 months ago 10
@Skremlab
Lol!!!
peasblossom1973 6 months ago
@Skremlab HOOT!!!
minapuppa 3 months ago
Reminds me of my beautiful Mom, who died in 2000. She had a red 1962 Pontiac Catalina and this song was playing on the car radio when she pulled into the driveway.
It's like it happened yesterday...Thanks for the upload.
LMHS63 6 months ago 3
@LMHS63 I know my mom dies in 1961 at Christmas...these old songs remind me of those times...I still miss her so much and I was 11 when she slipped away...
CuervoMa1 6 months ago
@CuervoMa1 Amazing how we think of our moms when we listen to all these old songs.my moms left me Oct 23, 2008 and Almost Every Old song of this era reminds me of her. her favorite was by lesley Gore..Thats the way Boys are 1964. whenever she would hear this song years later even in the Winter of her life..a twinkle would be in her eyes she would smile..pat her feet nod her head and think back to 1964. although she was in her 90s she would just live Up when this type of music came on.
blkshepherd 6 months ago
@blkshepherd Thanks for sharing your memories, Lost my mom Sept 27, 2008 "age 84" three years tomorrow she would sing along and catch the beat to Neil Diamond's Cracklin Rosie, She loved that song XO Caprice
327caprice 5 months ago
@327caprice wow, amazing..you lost your moms a month before i lost mine..so you know Exactly what I am still going through. My eyes welded this morning as i was on my way to work when i thought of my moms. There not a day that goes by I dont think of her atleast once during the course of a day. great lost. but it feels good to talk with others who Share the same lost. and memories..god bless.
blkshepherd 5 months ago
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jds2010ful 4 months ago
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blkshepherd 4 months ago
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jds2010ful 4 months ago
I WAS TRAVELING TO SOUTH CAROLINA AT THE AGE OF 10 WHEN IHEARD THIS SONG. I ENJOYED IT SO MUCH THAT I STILL SING A FEW BARS OF THE TUNE EVERY KNOW AND THEN .SUCH MEMORIES.
LOVE IT.
aud2369 6 months ago
WoW..this brings back many a dream! I remember the California CIF Football games on Friday nights. California back then was a beautiful dream..and now? Well I won't spoil this song sweet memory, but I will say that I left my native California..but it was a beautiful dream at one time and when I hear this song it brings back that special space in time for me.
billeagle51 6 months ago
written by David Gates. yes the guy from BREAD
skitch88 7 months ago
Wonderful memories I was in high school
wb5oxq 7 months ago
This was suppose to be written by David Gates of 'Bread'. You can't go wrong if David writes you a song.
daToinado 7 months ago
Great harmonies bring great nostalgia for 1964 for those of us of a certain age.
pcwill1949 7 months ago
The year was 64.....I was a senior in high school...this was playing on the car radio.....ahhh nice memories!! Suzi
TheSuziclassof64 7 months ago
i was born in 71 and i really dig this song,for some reason this song seems so pure.i really wish i could have had some part in this era
dreadlockrob1 7 months ago
@dreadlockrob1 I think you hit on something. This song has some kind of purity to it. It's probably the lyrics; they're very simple and sincere
57highland 7 months ago
@dreadlockrob1 Just by loving and listening to this music makes you a part of it, If you do some research on this particular era you will understand it much better too. Listen, read, go online and watch documentaries on this era of the early sixties A great documentary to start with is "GIRL GROUPS, THE STORY OF A SOUND" (1983) Good Luck and lemme know what you think.
SuperBrianm 7 months ago
I was born in 1979. This is a very guilty pleasure song for me. I listen to it alone, and never in front of my friends. I keep playing it over and over
AngelaRed 8 months ago 2
great singing,its one of my go to songs..
dedset1 8 months ago
Catchy tune, good arrangement and pleasant voices.
Liked it then. Like it now.
Has it been 50 years?
PacRimJim 8 months ago
A truly beautiful song! Why cant girls sing like this anymore? Now all they do is sing off-key and chant...
59Skott 8 months ago
I had not long emigrated to L.A. and heard this it brings back many happy memories, wish I was still in L.A. OTBnLA
fastandfurious1986 8 months ago
:)
sanjurodog 9 months ago
wonder if it would have been a bigger hit on a major record label?
VTMCompany 9 months ago
Si. . .
TheManofDistinction 9 months ago
Chicas, chicas y mas chicas...
TheJavierm7 9 months ago
I agree!
TheManofDistinction 9 months ago
Zero dislikes... as it should be.
MaceMn 9 months ago 2
You go girls...great song.
ViceroyCDR 10 months ago
You girls will always be 15 and 17, as long as this song is played.
main199 10 months ago
Great song, beautiful harmony, great arrangement. I'ts hard to believe that you were so young and so good.
main199 10 months ago
What a tremendous song ! One of my favorite tunes...My senior year in high school in 1964 is defined by this song...Too bad the Murmaids broke up soon after recording P&I, since they were all headed to college in California. I still get chill bumps every time I hear this song...
betowt 10 months ago
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Bobjb999 11 months ago
I like this song.
RatBatSpiderCrab 11 months ago
so the Beatles were the onese to bump these guys off the top
GeRaRdMyArThUrChEmIc 1 year ago
I can dig that!
TheManofDistinction 1 year ago 2
I was a nine year old top-40 radio listener when this song was a hit in early '64.
It was one of those special '60s songs with an such emotive melody & vocal performance, & so affecting for me, as to transport my young mind to some mysterious & blissful, slightly other-worldly realm (one where seductive-voiced "murmaids" dwell, apparently!). Discovering this Murmaids song was a little like finding the perfect psychoactive drug, but one with no bad side effects, health risks, or legality issues!
Bobjb999 1 year ago 17
@Bobjb999 I couldn't have said that better myself. That is EXACTLY what this song is to me, being a 9 year old top 40 listener in 1964 as well!!
ericom10 11 months ago
@Bobjb999 Well I was a year behind you and when I received a transistor radio for my birthday I was in total bliss!!.....many nights with the radio to my ear so my parents didn't know I was still awake at 11:30 at night, listening to all of the top 40 hits....what a magical time!!
ultraroadmap 10 months ago 7
@Bobjb999 gee an intelligent, eloquent and descriptive remark on YouTube, a rare treasure indeed, like this song and others like it are
ITILII 8 months ago
@Bobjb999 Music is the message of our inner being. To me the music of the 1930's and the 1960's had all of the elements of the ethereal. The opening organ to Light My Fire, and the song White Bird do it for me. That and Mr. Limpet.
paulj0557 6 months ago
@Bobjb999 It was in the spring of my 10 grade when this was out , and oh does it take me back to a time when i didn't have a care in the world. This is a feel good song. And transister radios had an ear plug so you didn't get in trouble late at night.
MrMiamiboy48 4 months ago
Which one of the gals is the lead singer--the one with the singular higher voice? She starts off the song before the others join in.
Tony1949d 1 year ago
@Tony1949d I believe It was Terry Fischer she was the leader from what I understand?
MagicGary1960 3 months ago
Nice~!! :)
webkinzlover1936 1 year ago
The Murmaids were a one-hit wonder all-female vocal trio composed of sisters Carol and Terry Fischer; and Sally Gordon from Los Angeles, California who, in January 1964 reached #3 with this song.
rorigiles 1 year ago
@rorigiles Yeah Carol and Terry Fischers Father Carl Fischer was the Music Arranger for Frankie Laine? Both my parents loved Frankie Laine I thought that was pretty cool.
MagicGary1960 3 months ago
this was near the top of the u.s. hit parade in that brief 10-week period between the assassination of jfk & the beatles' first trip to the states.
wallofvideo 1 year ago 2
David Gates has copyright to Popicles ? Must have , he wrote the song didn't he ? How could anyone else have rights to the song ?
jsteelman1000 1 year ago
Thanks so very much for sharing this. It is one of the most lovely and also most under-rated songs of all time.
tdsouza743 1 year ago
A golden time, I miss it so...
dumboldon 1 year ago
What a song. Sad.....reminds me of lost youth. Wish I could go back to guitars and drive-ins on Friday night. Such a special time!
swain199 1 year ago
@swain199 Cruisin on a Saturday night, drag racin' on the back roads, ah the fun of it all. Well before Viet Nam when life was much simpler. And you could understand the words!!
mk84ldb 1 year ago
Wow you girls are great ! thanks for posting vid I love the Murmaids !
jsteelman1000 1 year ago
This was when Music WAS Music, Thank You for taking me back for a little while, I have this tune on a '45, It's one of my All Time favorite's.
wolfmantip 1 year ago
im madly in love with this song. ♥
♫ ♪ "bright stars and, guitars and, drive-ins on friday night" ♪ ♫
my hubby puts up with listening to it over and over, lol.
wildcowgirl77 1 year ago 2
Written by David Gates of the group "Bread"
embalmermike 1 year ago
@embalmermike kool.
sesabio 1 year ago
Just for you!!
cpkphil 1 year ago
I love this tune so much. One of the best of the era.
MaceMn 1 year ago 27
Thanks for posting the sheet music - I have never seen it before and I'm in the photo! Sally Gordon-Mark, one of the original Murmaids
sgordonmark 1 year ago
@sgordonmark Hello there Sally. I collect records from the 50's and 60's and I virtually have thousands. Of all those 45's, this is the one that is the most nostalgic to me. It hit the winter of 1963/1964 and I purchased that 45 and all the rest you ladies released. I also have the LP. Thanks for the music. I see you are my age and I think you'll agree. That was the best era for music. Take care, Ronnie
jamiesalyer 1 year ago
@jamiesalyer Thanks very much for your message, Ronnie. I appreciate what you said and agree that we were lucky to have experienced the golden age of rock. Remember how we'd wait for the Top 10 to come out on the radio every week or was it every month? American Bandstand, slow dancing, swing dancing, it was all great fun. Thanks for reminding me. Happy New Year!! All best wishes, Sally
sgordonmark 1 year ago
@sgordonmark Hello Sally this is Sir David from New York USA, I noticed that YouTube have been deleting uploads of Popsickles and Icicles for copyright infringement. I know who wrote it but who has copyright for it?
Would not want to loose all of the downloads of it. I have been notifying people that have uploaded it incase if it is deleted.. And How is France with Snow? Here in New York we have in snow after snow storm all of January. Hope to see you on your home page
sixtiesforever1966 1 year ago