dEFROG ON 45 #65: BABY, YR NOT THAT KIND
Oct. 14th, 2013 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogWhen yr a kid in the 70s buying 45s, yr inevitably going to wind up with songs from the reliable hit machines of the era. I’ve covered quite a few already – ABBA, The Eagles, ELO, Steve Miller, Barry Manilow, etc.
There’s a fairly obvious gap there. So it’s probably time to bring up Sir Elton John.
Of course he wasn’t “Sir” in those days. But he was definitely cranking out the hit singles. Elton was pretty ubiquitous on the American airwaves, and my sister and I were in awe of the fact that he used swear words in his songs. (“It’s four o’clock in the morning, dammit.”)
Well, c’mon, we lived in Tennessee and we were barely out of elementary school.
Anyway, even though I liked Elton John, I only ever bought one of his 45s.
And given the nature of other songs in this series, of course it’s the one with Kiki Dee on it.
I had no idea who Kiki Dee was, of course. Great name, though. And I do still like this song – it’s a well-crafted (if slightly overproduced) slice of pop candy.
Nobody knows it,
This is dF
There’s a fairly obvious gap there. So it’s probably time to bring up Sir Elton John.
Of course he wasn’t “Sir” in those days. But he was definitely cranking out the hit singles. Elton was pretty ubiquitous on the American airwaves, and my sister and I were in awe of the fact that he used swear words in his songs. (“It’s four o’clock in the morning, dammit.”)
Well, c’mon, we lived in Tennessee and we were barely out of elementary school.
Anyway, even though I liked Elton John, I only ever bought one of his 45s.
And given the nature of other songs in this series, of course it’s the one with Kiki Dee on it.
I had no idea who Kiki Dee was, of course. Great name, though. And I do still like this song – it’s a well-crafted (if slightly overproduced) slice of pop candy.
Nobody knows it,
This is dF
