Genre: Easy listening
Places I remember: The Little Red Bookshop (Hastings)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Games People Play lends itself to this kind of treatment.
Gear costume: Raindrops Are Falling On My Head (ditto)
Active compensatory factors: Famous for Burning Bridges, the theme from Kelly's Heroes, this was the first album from MGM records head honcho Mike Curb.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Games People Play lends itself to this kind of treatment.
Gear costume: Raindrops Are Falling On My Head (ditto)
Active compensatory factors: Famous for Burning Bridges, the theme from Kelly's Heroes, this was the first album from MGM records head honcho Mike Curb.
I was drawn to the album by the Beatles' covers (Come Together/Hey Jude) and the record cover which, although tragically unhip for 1970, does feature the NZ flag! Curb also has a go at Give Peace A Chance and I was keen to hear what he did with it (it's as you'd expect - pretty dire). All that, plus it was cheap - only $10.
Ultimately it's anodyne schmaltzy pap and I should have known better given Curb was a right wing Nixon supporter who ditched acts from MGM because of their drug associations, but sometimes you have to have a punt. Right!?
Worst moments: Sweet Caroline, Long Haired Lover From Liverpool - yeuch!!!
Where do they all belong? I've learned my lesson with The Mike Curb Congregation. Burning Bridges is still cool though.
Where do they all belong? I've learned my lesson with The Mike Curb Congregation. Burning Bridges is still cool though.
"I've always liked the Gale Garnett song "We'll Sing In The Sunshine" (No.1 on US Cash Box chart!)...and not just because she was born in NZ...Auckland!!! She moved with her parents to Canada when she was 11, later on performed on "Shindig", "Red Skelton Show" etc and won a Grammy Award too. She did lots of US TV incl "Adventures In Paradise" "Hawaiian Eye", "77 Sunset Strip", "The Real McCoys", "Bonanza" and even "Kojak" in the 70's. She played Aunt Lexy in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" too. Dolly Parton picked "We'll Sing In The Sunshine" as one of her favourites for her album of cover versions....She's 78 now...
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