The Partridge Family has started up on PAX with the pilot episode broadcast this past Friday. There's a short scene where Shirley is out shopping and hears the band's song on a portable radio being carried by a businessman. The man looked strangely familiar. Sure enough, the closing credits revealed him to be Gordon Jump, later of WKRP fame. Weird.
Mal: Then I call it a win. What's the problem? Inara: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, or the part where you have no clothes?
'Trash'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Jon B. - Sep 17, 2006 5:47:21 pm PDT #4068 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
megan walker - Sep 17, 2006 5:47:50 pm PDT #4069 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I think I definitely have enough songs for my party now. Thanks everyone for the suggestions! I really got a lot of great stuff I would never have discovered otherwise. Some favorites:
Favorite discovery: Nanci Griffith, "Summer Wages"
Most appropriate (and fun!): Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood, "Summer Wine"
Most summery sounding: The Cowsills, "Indian Lake"
Best song I should have thought of but didn't: The Motels, "Suddenly Last Summer"
Best "summer" song whose lyrics don't contain "summer": The Fiery Furnaces, "Here Comes the Summer"
Best reminder of how great the music was on BtVS: The Sundays, "Summertime"
Best mention of The Beach Boys: Chuck Prophet, "Summertime Thing"
Best coincidental download: Teddybears, "Yours to Keep"
(The free single of the week—all about driving around with the top down in the summer!)
And I love love love "Boardwalk Arts"—thanks lisah! Do you ever play on this side of the bridge?
msbelle - Sep 17, 2006 5:55:07 pm PDT #4070 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
WHOOT! 2 of my songs made the "most" list. hee.
megan walker - Sep 17, 2006 5:58:14 pm PDT #4071 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Well, they were both made of awesome.
DavidS - Sep 17, 2006 8:49:24 pm PDT #4072 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hmmm. Well, Jilli, your goth music special is showing something about Tupac instead of its TiVo listing. I'll see if it comes on after and adjust. Lame, MTV2!
Theodosia - Sep 18, 2006 3:35:16 am PDT #4073 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Tupac wasn't Goth? I mean, with the dead and all? t /dark sarcasm
The soundtrack for Life on Mars is just fab, truly. UK-Music-That-Didn't-Get-Played-Over-Here is an unknown country to me. (Perhaps not surprisingly.)
(Heh -- I just checked iTunes and to my surprise they actually have "Indian Lake". And now it is MINE.)
Oh, and to round out my morning: here's a clip of Dr. Johnny Fever saying "Booger" on WKRP:
megan walker - Sep 18, 2006 3:59:13 am PDT #4074 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Heh -- I just checked iTunes and to my surprise they actually have "Indian Lake". And now it is MINE.
FTR, iTunes had most of the summer songs suggested.
lisah - Sep 18, 2006 4:20:35 am PDT #4075 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
And I love love love "Boardwalk Arts"—thanks lisah! Do you ever play on this side of the bridge?
Thanks!!! We haven't played over there but we would if the opportunity arose. I wonder where though?
megan walker - Sep 18, 2006 4:37:49 am PDT #4076 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
We haven't played over there but we would if the opportunity arose. I wonder where though?
Good question. We have groups a couple of times a week at the local bar (Andy's in Chestertown-that's where I discovered Mercy Creek), but that gets small pretty quickly, and then there's a leap in venue (generally to the Avalon in Easton). For example, apparently the Avett Bros. used to play Andy's, but now there's no way they could play there, I saw them in Easton. But the Avalon is also Nanci Griffith, RIchard Thompson, etc.
Atropa - Sep 18, 2006 10:13:33 am PDT #4077 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Hmmm. Well, Jilli, your goth music special is showing something about Tupac instead of its TiVo listing. I'll see if it comes on after and adjust. Lame, MTV2!
Waaaaah! Noooooo!
(But thank you for checking for me.)