Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Walkin'

Flashback this morning-
Sometimes songs, people, events just come rushing back out of the blue. Where they come from and why at a particular time, I do not know

Exhibit A- I'm looking at this image, taken on East End Beach last week, and all I'm thinking of is the Shangri Las hit "Remember, Walkin' in the Sand" recorded back somewhere around 1965. The Shangri Las were one of those slutty girl bands that that guys were pulled towards.  Not me , of course, but some guys (insert laugh track here). Although they dressed kind of pretty, I imagined they'd fit in perfectly with the greasers in the teen classic, The Outsiders. They could hide switchblades in their poofy hair! When I heard "Leader of the Pack", I knew I had to see what these girls looked like. Saw them on American Bandstand, Hullabaloo and the Lloyd Thaxton Show.
Like a comet, they flashed across the sky.
Blonde lead singer, Mary Weiss, is still performing.
That's my musical update today.
Remember...

15 comments:

  1. Perfect imprints! I can see why this pic reminded you of that song.

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  2. i like the prints...lol "slutty girl bands"...i bet they look wholesome now compared to the slutty entertainers today!

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  3. Those prints look surreal! I'm reading the book The Beatles Are Here! by Penelope Rowlands. I think you'd like it, don't know if I mentioned it on your post about the Beatles coming to America in 1964.

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  4. don't remember the band, but love the steps!

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  5. Wonderful photo complete with optical illusion. The footprints look to be above the sand rather than depressions in the sand. Yes, I remember those bands, but never drawn to the music, but I may have had a few fantasies about slutty girl bands, didn't everyone?

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  6. Love that pic! Memories , they come and they go, who knows why and where, but they're so powerful!

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  7. Nice prints! I can't place the band name, so it must have been before my time.

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  8. My first thought on seeing the photo was of Longfellow's "The Tide Rises . . ." and these lines: "The little waves, with their soft, white hands,/ Efface the footprints in the sands, / And the tide rises, the tide falls . . ."

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  9. I remember them well and now have visions of the original American Bandstand playing in my head. Watched it every day after school!

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  10. Birdman -- You certainly have a great retention of all those popular songs -- barbara

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  11. Nice shot. I love musical memories.

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  12. You certainly brought back some memories for me with this post!

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