Practically a novelty song, but the purity of the high harmonies saves it. I have mentioned before that it was an era that everyone, not only groups known for their harmony like the Beach Boys or the Mamas & the Papas, sang harmony and sang it well. It was prominent at the 8th grade graduation party and on into church camp that summer.
Infuriating. The rhythm of the "dah dit dah" bit indicates
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- but the words they sing are
-.-.- (Dah dit dah dit dah)
The latter's an international prosign for 'attention' or 'begin message', the former I think is Ç
I have the best OCD commenters on the internet. Magnificent, really.
ReplyDelete"CDO," one of my friends here would say. "It's not in alphabetical order that way."
I found out recently that my late mother and my aunt went to school with Mark Lindsey of "Paul Revere and the Raiders" fame. They went to high school together in Wilder, Idaho.
ReplyDeleteI forget if it was my mom or my aunt who said he was kind of slovenly back then, sort of like Pig Pen from Charlie Brown cartoons.
Included 'Western Union' in my 2010 post Heartsignals:
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...which could really use an update to fix broken links and add a few more songs.