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To DobermansRock...thank you very much for the "welcome". All these years later, it still has great meaning. The same holds true for you...we all thank you for your service and if you were an infantryman, please take advantage (NOW) of any help they offer you regarding PTSD. It's truly an ugly...

My favorite song by The Belmonts!!! I have only one question: Who are the two INCREDIBLE backup singers and why don't we know more about THEM? Unbelievable...makes me smile every time I watch it. Someone tell THEM to form a retro group...I'll be the first in line.

Please, please, please "post" the version with subtitles...I would insist that 100 of my friends watch it tomorrow!!! I own the video (yes, video) and it is my top-5 of all time. A remarkable work by Tony Bui (age 26)...backed by a remarkable cast! Simply put...I have a strong affinity for the ...

PtelMeasOmo...thanks for the post. I absolutely felt that way...and still do. We "worked" in a village/jungle environment and had little contact with the indigenous people, but always enjoyed seeing women wearing an Ao Doi. The words to Do Ai are interesting: "Can anyone ever know how many sta...

I was drafted in May of '68, served in Vietnam as a Light-Weapons-Infantryman with the 25th Infantry Division...and saw the worst of it all... Yet I can STILL make myself laugh at what I heard in basic and infantry training. My favorite was, "Push 'em up 'til I'M tired". I did thousands of pus...

Great job KauailsLove...which means you know who Daddy G was!?!

This song is absolutely perfect. Listen very carefully. Rest in peace, Gene...you will be missed.

Gene...we will all miss you...but your songs will remain with us forever. They are absolutely timeless and perfect. Please rest in peace.

Gene...if you can read this, please know how much your songs meant to us in the early '60s...you will be remembered forever. This was my favorite...the octave change was fantastic. Rest in true peace. You will be missed.

Christopher...thank you for the information regarding the bathroom...typical for the times. Just a bit of clarification...the original song that they and Beach Boys covered was performed in 1958 by Bobby Freeman.

To sssmmitt...my sentiments EXACTLY. This has always been my favorite Association song. They played at my HS Graduation (University High, WLA '66) and I saw them in '67 at Ravina Park, Northshore of Chicago. I saw them again performing at a park in Thousand Oaks, Ca in the early 2000s. Why TH...

Bobby...thank you so much for responding...that makes ME feel like there was a point to it all. It's funny how episodes in one's life have lasting effects and remain forever. '67 and '68 were YESTERDAY to me. There were other songs on "Color Him In" that we remember very well...with fondness. ...

Bobby...Why THIS song and "Know Yourself" didn't rise to the top of the charts in '67 is way beyond me!!! We wore the grooves out on "Color Him In". I still can't figure out why the masses weren't there for you!?! It remains an ineffable enigma for me and my friends of that era who followed mus...

Thank you for posting one of my all-time favorites...and I'm a California boy. This song was introduced to me in '68 while I was in the Army at Ft. Ord, Ca. The GI who had worked with Joe South (song writer) was Thomas Aiken. We were in infantry training together and went our separate ways upo...

We had the 45 growing up...so glad to finally see the real version posted. Previously, it was only the Billy Fury version (not bad, but not Darren). Fantastic song of the period.

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Thank you very much for this post...one of my all-time favorites and one of the most overlooked songs of the late sixties. How "More Today" made it and this didn't...they forgot to flip the record over. Thank you Pat Upton. I looked for this song for 40 years...first heard it in '69.

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