Young girl-- get out of my mind!

For some reason, this morning I have an old song in my head.  It's one that hasn't aged particularly well.  It's a song called from 1968 called "Young Girl", and it was sung by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.  It has a nice melody and Gary Puckett's vocals are soulful enough... but the lyrics are about an older guy who wants to get into a young girl's pants.

"That come on look is in your eyes..."  Eeew!

I guess the men of today can relate to this song, patronizing as the words are.  Gary sings, "Get out of here before I have the time to change my mind..."  Yuck!  Control yourself, man!  Well, the words are kind of gross, as is the sentiment, but at least Gary can sing decently.

I don't know what put this in my head today.  I do see that it's in my library, although I don't think I've recently listened to it before today.  And I haven't been a "young girl" myself in over thirty years.

Wikipedia tells me that Gary Puckett and the Union Gap only lasted a few years.  They were active from 1967 until 1971, before I was even born.  However, during that time, they had a hit in "Young Girl" and even played for Prince Charles at a White House reception.  I wonder if the good prince enjoyed this music.  He did marry himself a "young girl" years later.  We all know how that turned out.

I've been neglecting this blog lately, which means it may be time to retire it.  Or maybe I'll just continue to do what I've been doing for years, which is to only write new posts when inspiration hits.  You'd think with as much time on my hands as I have, I could do that every day, but I've been busy thinking about other stuff.  Maybe 2021 will be a less traumatic year for all of us.

Danny Bonaduce wants to be your magician...

I discovered this truly cringe inducing song yesterday...

Here's Danny Bonaduce, who was probably at puberty when this was recorded...

As we all know, Danny Bonaduce played Danny Partridge on The Partridge Family, which was a huge hit back in the early 1970s.  Danny Bonaduce can't sing, but he is a gifted and natural comedian and he was playing a role on a TV show about a family band.  So, I guess the powers that be wanted to harness his moneymaking abilities for as long as possible, and they had Danny make some pretty crappy music.

This song is kind of catchy and it has some hilarious sound effects.  But the lyrics are disturbingly suggestive for a boy his age.  Consider these words:

I'll be your magician,

Touch you softly with my magic wand.

And like a puff of smoke,

your resistance will be gone

I'll be your magician,

Gonna conjure up a lover's groove.

And once you're under my spell, Honey,

I'll make love to you...

The rest of the lyrics as well as handy guitar tabs can be found here.  

I have heard that Danny Bonaduce was sexually active from a very young age, but it still seems kind of wrong that a kid his age was singing a song like this.  I wonder who decided this was appropriate?  I'm sure the decision was all about making money, and perhaps it was also influenced by drugs.  Still, it's just a dreadful song that is unfortunately very catchy.  I now have it ringing in my head.

I've seen other videos by Danny Bonaduce in the 70s... it was smack dab in the middle of his awkward teen years.  I give him props for surviving and later using that mortifying time to further his comedy career.  

He's a comedian, not a singer.

I hate this song enough when it's done by Simon and Garfunkel, let alone Danny Bonaduce.

I miss the 70s... probably because I didn't have any sense during that decade and this kind of stuff went right over my head.