Confessions of an adult teenybopper
The year is 1965. A teenybopper is born. Well, not really born so much as becomes aware of music and its powerful abiltity to move, change and explain the world.The songs that did that? Check it out dog: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones; I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch), Four Tops; Wooly Bully, Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs; You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', Righteous Brothers; Downtown, Petula Clark; Help!, The Beatles; Can't You Hear My Heartbeat, Herman's Hermits ... ahhh the Herman's Hermits...
And then there were I Got You Babe, Sonny and Cher; Help Me, Rhonda, Beach Boys; This Diamond Ring, Gary Lewis and The Playboys; Stop! In The Name Of Love, Supremes; Mr. Tambourine Man, Byrds; Hang On Sloopy, McCoys; Ticket To Ride, The Beatles; Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, James Brown and The Famous Flames; Like A Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan; Ferry Cross The Mersey, Gerry and The Pacemakers; and Down In The Boondocks, Billy Joe Royal...
And yes, Elvis was making a little music, and there was the Dave Clark Five's Catch Us If You Can. Oh, and The Beatles' Eight Days A Week and Marvin Gaye's I'll Be Doggone ... and there was Gary Lewis and The Playboys, Tom Jones, Martha and The Vandellas, the Yardbirds, the Searchers, and more Sonny and Cher and the Turtles ... and (Smokey Robinson and the) Miracles and The Tracks Of My Tears ... Did I mention the Dave Clark Five? Little Anthony and The Imperials? Four Tops? the Animals ... I can hear the music, spinning on those vinyl 45s .... Oh, oh, and the Do You Believe In Magic by the Lovin' Spoonful ....
Yep. I'm a teenybopper. Okay, so i'm an aging, adult-like teenybopper. But I'm a teenybopper who sincerely misses the screams of younger teenyboppers on American Idol each Tuesday and Wednesday night .. .And I'll keep missing it until its next go round.
So, there you have it. Confessions of an adult teenager who is enthusiastically devoted to popular music and to current fads.
I miss Idol ... and the hope it brings to all of us that we, too, can be a little pitchy and still survive our judges.
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