Best music of your senior year

[bayoubill]

I dropped out of school at the very beginning of the tenth year. I lived and worked on a farm until I joined the military just 2 days after my 17th birthday in 1956. During what would have been my senior year, my favorite song was The Marine Corps Hymn. However, this thread is about other music and I do remember times when the entire barracks went to sleep to the sound of Joni James:

Joni James "Among My Souvenirs" - YouTube

sweet tune... hadn't ever heard it before... 'n [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqCLsp5owY8"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqCLsp5owY8[/ame]a very nice lookin' lady singing the tune...

btw... here's a tune from 'round about the same time...

 

[bayoubill]

Rolling Stones - Paint It Black

Rolling Stones - Paint It Black - YouTube

you wanna go there, Ropey...?

'k...

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcgZIz0Fd-w"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcgZIz0Fd-w[/ame]

 

[NoNukes]

1969

Honkey Tonk Women
Come Together
Proud Mary
Get Together
Everyday People
Sweet Caroline

 

[BDBoop]

a tune from before I was in my senior year...

but it gives a sense of the way things were back then...

'n I fuckin' loved Otis... 'n still, to this day, mourn his untimely passing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ddLvbCQbU4

Same here. I didn't discover him until my early 20's and then I was like omg. Seriously?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ6OrrkeVFo]Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

1969

Honkey Tonk Women
Come Together
Proud Mary
Get Together
Everyday People
Sweet Caroline

based on your choices, lemme take a wild guess...

after 40-some years, you're finally in a position to take over your dad's insurance agency...

 

[BDBoop]

1969

Honkey Tonk Women
Come Together
Proud Mary
Get Together
Everyday People
Sweet Caroline

based on your choices, lemme take a wild guess...

after 40-some years, you're finally in a position to take over your dad's insurance agency...

Bill, don't be a Dick. I want to hear from everybody, not just people who hear like you do.

 

[BDBoop]

1969

Honkey Tonk Women
Come Together
Proud Mary
Get Together
Everyday People
Sweet Caroline

Out of that list, I'm torn about three different ways - but I would say this is my favorite.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JvkaUvB-ec]Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People (Audio) - YouTube[/ame]

"Ooh, sha-sha ..."

 

[bayoubill]

a tune from before I was in my senior year...

but it gives a sense of the way things were back then...

'n I fuckin' loved Otis... 'n still, to this day, mourn his untimely passing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ddLvbCQbU4

Same here. I didn't discover him until my early 20's and then I was like omg. Seriously?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ6OrrkeVFo]Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long - YouTube[/ame]

even after all these years, I still vividly remember how stricken I felt when I saw on the front page of the local newspaper that he'd been killed in a plane crash...

'n that was, what, nearly 50 years ago...?

 

[BDBoop]

a tune from before I was in my senior year...

but it gives a sense of the way things were back then...

'n I fuckin' loved Otis... 'n still, to this day, mourn his untimely passing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ddLvbCQbU4

Same here. I didn't discover him until my early 20's and then I was like omg. Seriously?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ6OrrkeVFo]Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long - YouTube[/ame]

even after all these years, I still vividly remember how stricken I felt when I saw on the front page of the local newspaper that he'd been killed in a plane crash...

'n that was, what, nearly 50 years ago...?

46, close enough. And I was only nine at the time, so no clue of him or what a loss that was.

 

[BDBoop]

For me ... and this is just cursory, but the death that most stunned me was Marvin Gaye.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9BA6fFGMjI]Marvin Gaye - Mercy, Mercy Me - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

1969

Honkey Tonk Women
Come Together
Proud Mary
Get Together
Everyday People
Sweet Caroline

based on your choices, lemme take a wild guess...

after 40-some years, you're finally in a position to take over your dad's insurance agency...

Bill, don't be a Dick. I want to hear from everybody, not just people who hear like you do.

sorry, Boop... it seems to be in my nature to be a smart-ass jerk this time of night...

'specially after I've had a few whiskeys...

 

[BDBoop]

based on your choices, lemme take a wild guess...

after 40-some years, you're finally in a position to take over your dad's insurance agency...

Bill, don't be a Dick. I want to hear from everybody, not just people who hear like you do.

sorry, Boop... it seems to be in my nature to be a smart-ass jerk this time of night...

'specially after I've had a few whiskeys...

I know, hon. You can trust me to yank you one by the short hairs when that happens.

 

[BDBoop]

And for anybody who graduated in 1973 - half the time, this is how USMB feels.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8StG4fFWHqg]Stealers Wheels - Stuck In The Middle With You - Offical Video + Lyics - YouTube[/ame]

 

[NoNukes]

1969

Honkey Tonk Women
Come Together
Proud Mary
Get Together
Everyday People
Sweet Caroline

based on your choices, lemme take a wild guess...

after 40-some years, you're finally in a position to take over your dad's insurance agency...

No, I am an artist and live in a small village on the east coast of Ireland. You could not have been much more mistaken.

 

[editec]

Billboard top 20 1969

№ Title Artist(s)
1 "Sugar, Sugar" The Archies (sucked wankers)
2 "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" The 5th Dimension (okay at the time)
3 "I Can't Get Next to You" The Temptations (great tune!)
4 "Honky Tonk Women" The Rolling Stones (good but overplayed)
5 "Everyday People" Sly & the Family Stone (Okay)
6 "Dizzy" Tommy Roe (gag me with a spoon!)
7 "Hot Fun in the Summertime" Sly & the Family Stone ((still love it)
8 "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" Tom Jones (wretch!)
9 "Build Me Up Buttercup" The Foundations (okay at the time)
10 "Crimson and Clover" Tommy James and the Shondells (okay at the time)
11 "One" Three Dog Night (GREAT tune then and now)
12 "Crystal Blue Persuasion" Tommy James and the Shondells (hated it)
13 "Hair" The Cowsills ( a joke tune)
14 "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" Marvin Gaye (meh)
15 "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" Henry Mancini (Ok)
16 "Get Together" The Youngbloods (barf)
17 "Grazing in the Grass" The Friends of Distinction (don't remember this at all)
18 "Suspicious Minds" Elvis Presley (yeech!)_
19 "Proud Mary" Creedence Clearwater Revival (Yeah I liked it okay)
20 "What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)" Jr. Walker & The All Stars (not my style at the time)

 

[Zander]

Billboard top 20 1969

№ Title Artist(s)
1 "Sugar, Sugar" The Archies (sucked wankers)
2 "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" The 5th Dimension (okay at the time)
3 "I Can't Get Next to You" The Temptations (great tune!)
4 "Honky Tonk Women" The Rolling Stones (good but overplayed)
5 "Everyday People" Sly & the Family Stone (Okay)
6 "Dizzy" Tommy Roe (gag me with a spoon!)
7 "Hot Fun in the Summertime" Sly & the Family Stone ((still love it)
8 "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" Tom Jones (wretch!)
9 "Build Me Up Buttercup" The Foundations (okay at the time)
10 "Crimson and Clover" Tommy James and the Shondells (okay at the time)
11 "One" Three Dog Night (GREAT tune then and now)
12 "Crystal Blue Persuasion" Tommy James and the Shondells (hated it)
13 "Hair" The Cowsills ( a joke tune)
14 "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" Marvin Gaye (meh)
15 "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" Henry Mancini (Ok)
16 "Get Together" The Youngbloods (barf)
17 "Grazing in the Grass" The Friends of Distinction (don't remember this at all)
18 "Suspicious Minds" Elvis Presley (yeech!)_
19 "Proud Mary" Creedence Clearwater Revival (Yeah I liked it okay)
20 "What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)" Jr. Walker & The All Stars (not my style at the time)

What? ..it's a real classic!!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUrkOwJoZ1o&feature=kp]Friends Of Distinction ~ Grazin' In The Grass 1970 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[BDBoop]

lol!

Okay, back to me and mine. I remember being completely shocked when a sophomore told me that 'their song' was this one. SHOCKED, I tell you!! 1975, Take it to the limit.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwASii2f5c8]Eagles - Take It To The Limit - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Vandalshandle]

1963:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Xj72bP0To]Roy Orbison - In Dreams ( live Black and white night).avi - YouTube[/ame]

One of the best senior prom songs ever!

 

[BDBoop]

While we're on the subject - anybody remember their Jr/Sr Prom theme?

 

[SAYIT]

I wish I could remember my senior year. Or my junior year. Or my...