Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Titch - Zabadak (1967)

"Top Of The Pops" Show (1967)

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[ivorlottandtonybroke]

@sirtinycreep My guess is that the words "zabadak" etc don't really mean anything, and that the true meaning is in the chorus that starts at 1:14. These words are (I think):

Look for meaning not in words but in the way you're feeling

If it's love we'll understand, for love is all revealing

Like a rhythm like a spell, it sets your soul in motion

Love that's sure could rule the world, a tide to turn an ocean."

In other words, love is much more important than hidden meanings.

[pandemonsatyr]

@rudedanny Howard and Blaikley were more canny than you think. They knew exactly what they were doing.

[camaldolensis]

@gymnastix I think gymnastix you might find Something Strange by The Herd, also by Howard and Blaikley, quite interesting, and far from insincere and merely calculated, especially bearing in mind it was written in 1967.

[dparmenter123]

Played this on my radio show (WRCT 1980's) about a million times. Wow!

[gymnastix]

@armoredcar3 I don't necessarily mean DDDBM&T, but some of that '60s hippy stuff is embarassing. I more identified with some of the early punk rockers, who weren't reflexively left-wing, and had a slogan "Kill the hippies!" After all, some hippies who re-produced tended to give their offspring ridiculous names like "Chastity," "Moon Unit," "Leaf"and "Rain." Then look what happened to those "damaged daisies!."

[gymnastix]

@armoredcar3  Of course, being young & loopy themselves (not forgetting, also, some of them ingesting vast quantities of chemical substances), many of the music's makers probably, actually believed some of the crap contained within their respective songs' lyrics.

[gymnastix]

@armoredcar3 For many, if not most rock bands of this era (except the ones whose songwriters were also band members, and even then . . . ), the tunes were just so much product, aimed at tapping into the immature passions and fantasies of the young fans who bought the records of these contrived musical "groups."

[gymnastix]

@armoredcar3 I think just being deliberately ambiguous, and perhaps a little trendily mystical (they're excused/forgiven, it was the nature of younger people in these times).

But I think this tune was also co-written by the team of Howard/Blaikley. So the "meaning," if there is any, could be completely calculated and insincere, reflecting the beliefs/thinking of neither the band members nor the song's writers.

[gymnastix]

@johnnymnemonic52 Agreed. But I have, occasionally, seen films of some wilder young dancers (and not always black, gay, or female, either).

Well, maybe not always black or female, anyway.

[gymnastix]

@MattHatter  Thank you for this insight. I have wanted to know which face went with the respective names of DDDBM&T.

After all, this group was hardly as well-known (in The Unted States, anyway), by individual members' names, as were The Beatles, The Monkees, or even as The Rolling Stones.

[gymnastix]

@DemonicFlyingUnicorn I know not all kids had a happy childhood, or even two, good parents. But I did. And even with my mom's illness, they were still mostly happy times for us all, that I would give anything to get back (except, with a cure for cancer).

[gymnastix]

@gymnastix I'm sure younger persons born in the '80s, '90s and the last decade will have their good memories of youth too. But if I had the chance, as in the movie "Groundhog Day," to live one part of my life over and over again, I would choose from 1958 through 1970. Just to have my mom & dad back, and be living in my first home, would be great in itself!