Tuesday, September 24, 2019

The Turtles

Hey!

 Anybody remember the Turtles? The group from the 1960's?
Well, you know that I do!  I heard a song on the TV today, when I was in a waiting room. Wow, it sure did sound good to my ears.  I don't want you to think that I live in the past and only listen to music from my youth. It's just that there are many songs that are lodged firmly in my brain and I am grateful to hear some of those great tunes in a TV commercial. (For one thing, it has to be a good thing for children to hear catchy songs from the 60's!)

 Okay then, what was the song? You can guess, can't you?  "So Happy Together" is from 1967.  In the USA, this song knocked the Beatles' song "Penny Lane" off the top of the charts. 
"So Happy Together".

  Sing along if you like.



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17 comments:

  1. messymimiSeptember 26, 2019 at 6:52 PM

    Now that song is a happy walk down memory lane!

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  2. Emma SpringfieldSeptember 26, 2019 at 10:14 PM

    What memories this brings. Cool!

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  3. LeeSeptember 27, 2019 at 12:20 AM

    I certainly do remember The Turtles. There was such great music around in those years...still so very enjoyable today.

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  4. LibrarianSeptember 27, 2019 at 12:56 AM

    If the question had come up at the pub quiz, I wouldn't have known the name of the band, but certainly the song. Now I know both, thank you!
    Like you, I have many songs from my youth in my memory bank, but unlike you, sometimes I do not think of a specific song for years until I rediscover it by accident, and then wonder how I could ever forget it.

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  5. Debra She Who SeeksSeptember 27, 2019 at 8:11 AM

    Oh yes, I remember that song! Man, seems like a million years ago.

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  6. pam nashSeptember 27, 2019 at 8:32 AM

    I remember that song also. What was it - the late 1960's? So long but the words popped right into my head.

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  7. I'm mostly known as 'MA'September 27, 2019 at 9:27 AM

    What a great old song it was. More and more I enjoy the old better than the new. But then I am old too.

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  8. Thickethouse.wordpressSeptember 27, 2019 at 10:06 AM

    Such a good memory from so long ago! I am often really bad at remembering the name of the group that sang something I heard so many times. I don't remember the name "the turtles" but I certainly remember this song!

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  9. Mike@Bit About BritainSeptember 27, 2019 at 11:47 AM

    Great - very much a sound of the time, but somehow timeless too! In the UK, Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane was kept of the No 1 slot by Englebert Humperdink (I think)!

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  10. DeeSeptember 27, 2019 at 8:55 PM

    Dear Kay, for the past two weeks I watched Ken Burns' documentary on country music. I never really followed any country music singer, so I was surprised to learn how many names I recognized and how many songs I had heard and sang that had been "cross-overs" from country to pop. There's nothing like music to bring back a time and a place. Peace.

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    1. Janie JunebugSeptember 28, 2019 at 4:23 AM

      I need to watch that. It's pretty hard to beat a Ken Burns' documentary.

      Love,
      Janie

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  11. Janie JunebugSeptember 28, 2019 at 4:22 AM

    Imagine me and you . . . so happy together. That's one of my favorite songs. I sing it to the dogs all the time because the three of us are happy together.

    Love,
    Janie

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  12. SandySeptember 28, 2019 at 4:41 PM

    LOVED that song. I wasn't much into music when I was younger; but I love the music from that time period now. Current music to me is horrible.

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  13. yayaSeptember 28, 2019 at 11:25 PM

    I love when someone puts the 60's channel on Sirius in the operating room...drives the young nurses crazy but some of oldie but goodies enjoy it! I loved the Turtles!

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  14. SmudgeSeptember 29, 2019 at 5:45 AM

    Oh my word, dad says he had that 45 (how many young 'uns would even know that term these days?) and played it until it was so worn you couldn't understand it any more.

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  15. Fundy BlueOctober 6, 2019 at 2:34 PM

    Ms Catch-Up is back at it, Kay. I love the Beatles, but I was very happy when the Turtles knocked "Penny Lane" off the top of the charts. I always felt that PL was a little draggy, and I was tired of it. I loved the Turtles version of "It Ain't Me Babe."

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