Genre: American pop
Places I remember: It's October 1970 and I'm watching Kelly's Heroes in the movie theatre. It's my 13th birthday movie choice. Pretty sure this was the last time I celebrated my birthday with a trip to the movies.
Why this song now? I rewatched the film last night (bought the DVD from HMV).
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles/Gear costume: Just the song this week
Active compensatory factors: On the back of the film, this song was huge in New Zealand - #1 for two weeks in March 1971.
I didn't buy the single, but I'd seen the film and loved the song - it was all over the radio.
The song appealed because of the cultural association to the film and it's a cool pop song, solidly within the lines of the early seventies. The Cowsills, The Partridge Family, Edison Lighthouse - there were tons of bands sounding like this in 1970.
Weirdly (for 2018), the song plays three times in the movie - opening and closing credits and about the middle (!) over a platoon on the move in trucks scene.
Where do they all belong? Interestingly, it's very much of its time - there are lingering sixties sensibilities and pop music in the seventies was going to quickly leave Mike Curb behind (glam, disco, then punk made him redundant).
