It was Easton who was responsible for the sole actual obscenity on the Kingsmen’s recording, one which the F.B.I. never picked up upon. The song was recorded in a single live take. Fifty-six seconds in, Easton drops his drumstick. “Fuck!” he yells. You can hear it, if you listen hard enough.
Well, this is a not so new way of looking at paving paradise.
I think more songs have been written about Hazard, Kentucky than any other town in America. Well, except maybe for Nashville.
You've long been on the open road you've been sleepin' in the rain
From dirty words and muddy cells your clothes are soiled and stained
But the dirty words and the mud of cells will soon be judged insane
So only stop and rest yourself and you'll be off again
The song sometimes called the "hippie national anthem" can be found in all kinds of places. It's been used on The Simpsons and in Forrest Gump, recorded dozens of times by the likes of The Kingston Trio, The Dave Clark Five, Jefferson Airplane, The Staples Singers and the Carpenters (twice). You may have even heard it in a Walmart commercial a few years ago.
The song has gone by a few different names: "Let's Get Together," Everybody Get Together." But the best-known version is called, simply, "Get Together." It was recorded by The Youngbloods in 1967 — the same year as the Summer of Love, where it would become a constant presence.
Bob Crewe, a gay man, wrote "Music to Watch Girls By", much in the style of Herb Alpert, an Italian man wrote "Mexican" music, during an era when simulated wood grain was all of the rage.
I don’t own a television or have internet at home.📺 I do have a smartphone but I get most of my news from the radio or podcasts that I download at work or on the wifi.
I prefer to get my news and entertainment not by the screen but by listening. 📻 Radio is kind of special – with no pictures you have to use your mind to fill in the details. You don’t have the prejudices that images put in your mind, your free to imagine the characters as you see fit.
You can bring a radio virtually anywhere you go. It’s safe to use while driving. Headphones allow you to use on the bus and in most public places without distracting others.🎧 Radio can take you to far away lands without ever leaving where you currently are.
Even when I get older, settle down, maybe finally own land and the off grid cabin of my future, 🏠 I highly doubt I’ll ever have television or Internet at home.
