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@gozanelli yeah, something about this tune..unforgettable...too bad the Jaynettes didn't produce anything else.
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@TheLateBlackRob I would agree with you. Lots of these 50s pop songs sound like they have mystery meanings but they were really just hastily written lyrics. Same goes for the Shangri-Las 'Remember (Walkin in the Sand).' Many say it was about virginity, pregnancy, etc....truth is, their producer wrote the song in his car on the side of the road, on the way into the studio. He just needed it to rhyme...lucky for him that he struck gold with it.
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@thewildpearl You might be showing your age there -- it may not be a 'secret' anymore, but it's still a huge deal for teens today, and every day.
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I don't know why but every time i hear this song i think of horse racing.
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remember as a kid, the haunting, almost forbidding sound of the music. still the same to me. a memorable tune
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@TheGericsBrothers Well written.
For me it came out a couple of years before I went to Vietman so my "ride" was a bit different than yours, and for reasons I cannot understand the song reminds me of the night-mare of that year in Vietnam. It makes me think of fear and death. Like I said, I don't understand why. Maybe I hummed the song often while I was humping the hills of Vietnam waiting for that bullet with my name on it. I don't remember.
Anyway, good post you wrote.
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@radiopete But the original mono (on "Tuff Records" -- it's up on YouTube, scratches and all) has the GREAT organ fills that are missing here.
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Whoa! Pseudo-stereo.
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first time I ever heard this song in my whole life- was today!
this song lisent Johnny Sackramoni in the car...in the Sopranos! :)
zayedviper 6 months ago 9
@rocco4116
yeah, it was one of those great songs that was magic when i heard it in the middle of the night on the radio on the shelf next to my bed. it was like an echo of things going on out in the city that i wouldn't experience until i was in my teens. those who got it, got it. others who think too much instead of thinking will relate the song to race or ufos or government conspiracies or whatever. too bad. they miss a great ride.
TheGericsBrothers 5 months ago 5