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Title: The Drive, 12/27/05: 1969!
Post by: RGMike on December 27, 2005, 07:46:28 AM

The Drive's most-visited year (it seems that way, at any rate).  Most welcome on this Tues that feels like Mon.

Title: The Drive, 12/27/05: 1969!
Post by: RGMike on December 27, 2005, 08:24:24 AM

BOS Beatles (yay), "Hey Bulldog".

Title: The Drive, 12/27/05: 1969!
Post by: RGMike on December 27, 2005, 08:27:59 AM

VHM Gayle McCormick & A Group Called Smith, "Baby it's You".

Title: The Drive, 12/27/05: 1969!
Post by: Gazoo on December 27, 2005, 08:42:30 AM

Quote from: "RGMike"

VHM Gayle McCormick & A Group Called Smith, "Baby it's You".

A few years ago, when I was doing "Song of the Week" blog-like entries, I wrote one on this song.   Strangely, four years later it's the one I've received the most feedback on, mostly presumably from Googlers.

Title: The Drive, 12/27/05: 1969!
Post by: Gazoo on December 27, 2005, 08:26:34 PM

What's in those Winchester smokes?  That's quite a draw!

(Should have segued into Donovan's "Superlungs, My Supergirl.")

Title: The Drive, 12/27/05: 1969!
Post by: RGMike on December 27, 2005, 09:14:41 PM

Quote from: "Gazoo"

What's in those Winchester smokes?

That commercial is a reminder that while we complain about artists nowadays being "too quick to sell out -- not like back in the days of Woodstock"... here was Santana's "Evil Ways" turned into a cigarette jingle while the song was still on the charts.

Winchesters, BTW, were marketed as "little cigars" when they were just brown cigarettes.  Their main competition in the category was a brand called Tijuana Smalls, which everyone referred to jokingly as "marijuana smalls". LOL!