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Special confession
Friday, March 1, 2013 at 09:44AM
I wish to confess today that one of my favorite songs of all time is My Special Angel by The Vogues, 1968.
I used to be poetry -- albeit the unrhyming kind -- in motion, roller skating to that song in the late '60s and early '70s. I knew the lyrics, the beat, the sway, the whine of the sax, all by heart.
But that didn't keep me from attending a concert given by The Lettermen in Atlanta around 1975, and at request time, asking the gents to sing it.
I was in the front row and I yelled it right out.
"That's by The Vogues," one of The Lettermen corrected me. And he didn't come down to where I was and whisper it in my ear, either.
Apparently I didn't even know enough to go to the right concert.
Maybe I meant to yell out Put Your Head On My Shoulder or When I Fall In Love, but I imagine they'd already performed those that night, along with all their other big hits.
Whatever they sang, it wasnt My Special Angel, and more's the pity. Why couldn't they have sung it? Would that have been so difficult? It was, after all, request time.
Ah well. Bygones.
I used to have difficulty identifying Charlton Heston versus Burt Lancaster too. I don't recall how old I was before I could finally tell them apart.
Likewise Jack Klugman and Karl Malden.
And for a long time I thought Katharine and Audrey were sisters. The Hepburns.
What have you to confess today? Let's hear it.
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Happy Weekend ~ Happy March
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Reader Comments (5)
CH and BL???? Hahaaaa.... ME TOO! I Still get them confused.....
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I totally heart your new picture. Gorgeous.
I used to wonder how my Mum and Dad could remember all the names of the great actors and musicians. It was so confusing to me, as we never had television and so I only saw them in movies. Now, of course, I wish I didn't know the names of so many actors etc., although I am quite proud of the fact that I can say "Huh? Who's that?" when I see or hear the names of most of the new clutch of famous/infamous "celebrities".
And I saw The Lettermen at Disneyland in August 1976.
And I always eat the crusts first when I eat a sandwich.
And, weirdly, this is the second thing I have seen on my internet rounds this morning that included the word "confessions".
Oh dear, I don't know if I could confess too much today. I love both your songs, and would probably ask the wrong band for the right song as well. I'm not one to attend many concerts, other than Roberta Flack and Charles Aznovar. So the only confession I have today is, I kinda had a thing for Ward Cleever, until I realized how much work June had to do, and how Ward always got to make the big decisions with his boys. I couldn't be June Cleever, she never got a break, and she always had to be dressed to kill. I couldn't clean my fireplace with my pearls on, I just couldn't.
So much to confess...ha: read my blog. Much has been confessed therein already *wink*