Life long question?

[KWend54]

Growing up in The 70’s with a rock and roll influence I look back now asking several questions that I’m sure those in my age also ponder. Not new questions, for me, but questions that have been lifelong. I have much respect for the knowledge, both learned and life lessons, of our astute membership, so maybe they can settle this for me.
Was “Crackling Rosie” a hooker since she was a store bought woman? And why “Crackling”? And why would a chair have the ability to hear “I am”?
Important life questions?

 

[protoolman]

Rock and Roll? Wasn't Neil Diamond about as cool as Barry Manilow? My mom had quite a few of his 8 tracks.

 

[mr.deerstalker]

what happens if the "hokie-pokie" was NOT what it was all about?

 

[RC44Mag]

Never heard of that tune but this is a song about Rosie and it’s R&R!

 

[blume357]

Still trying to figure out why Lucy was up in the sky with diamonds....

 

[sfhogman]

FWIW, Cracklin' Rose was a cheap fizzy rose wine. If ya got no woman, there was always Cracklin' Rose....

 

[contender]

I too grew up with a heavy music influence from the 50's through the 70's. Neil Diamond was one of my favorite artists.

Many, many songs have lyrics that are confusing, or are a mystery to the masses. Only the writer knows the true history behind many of the strange stuff we have heard.

But I do believe Crackling Rosie was about a wine.

 

[golferboy426]

Rock and Roll? Wasn't Neil Diamond about as cool as Barry Manilow? My mom had quite a few of his 8 tracks.

Early Neil Diamond such as Solitary Man, Kentucky Woman and Girl you'll be a woman are classic 60's ..If you know what I mean is underrated....I'll even take the duet of You Don't Bring me flowers

 

[JAYDAWG]

Never heard of that tune but this is a song about Rosie and it's R&R!

Bon Scott AC/DC.......the best rock-n-roll. Period.

 

[JAYDAWG]

Still trying to figure out why Lucy was up in the sky with diamonds....

Four Brits on acid.......

 

[Ride1949]

what happens if the "hokie-pokie" was NOT what it was all about?

 

[KWend54]

Early Neil Diamond such as Solitary Man, Kentucky Woman and Girl you'll be a woman are classic 60's ..If you know what I mean is underrated....I'll even take the duet of You Don't Bring me flowers

All good ones that I sing in my head still!

 

[WAYNO]

Crackling Rose is definitely a store bought wine, and likely the closest thing to a date when men severely outnumbered women.

 

[Watertender]

Rock and Roll? Wasn't Neil Diamond about as cool as Barry Manilow? My mom had quite a few of his 8 tracks.

I have a good one about music that was not appreciated by the captive audience that it was being played for....

I worked in a maximum security prison for many years and one of the lieutenants was Polish. When the convicts would act up he would play polka music over the loudspeaker system. He would announce "da muzikk" in his Buffalo Polish accent... "Dat was Little Wally an da HoopyShoopy!!! Dat was da Beer Barrel Polka by Frankie Yankovic"!!!

He would do it about once a month and the ghettoites would complain. It was hilarious.

 

[Watertender]

Crackling Rose is definitely a store bought wine, and likely the closest thing to a date when men severely outnumbered women.

Wild Irish Rose in a paper bag... Cracklin' Rosie!!!

 

[JAYDAWG]

Ok,
A bit of a reveal here.......
60 this year.

100+ concerts "back in the day"
KISS, AC/DC, Motley Crue, Van Halen, Twisted Sister, Scorpions, Bon Jovi, Hagar, Def Leppard, Quiet Riot.
I've seen them all.
THE LOUDEST was Neil Diamond, April 8th 1989 in Seattle.
No BS.
Decibel level was off the charts.
Maybe he figured all the audience was his age and deaf anyways!!

Rock on........

JaydaWg

 

[blume357]

I was not much of a concert goer.. but the loudest one I ever went to was here in Greenville at Furman University in an auditorium. Johnny Winter and Leon Russell .... two of the whitest guys on the planet it seems.. (if you look past Johnny's tattoos) half way through the concert with Johnny Winter two roadies carry this dead white guy wearing Raybans out and sit him behind a piano... I mean white as a brand new cotton sheet, he falls forward and his head hits the key boards and the roadies spend sometime waking the dude up... then he sits up looks around and realizes where he is and starts playing... took me a few years to realize it was just part of the show.

 

[gnappi]

Many of the 60's-80's rock lyrics were just drug induced babble and I never gave them a second thought.

 

[Mobuck]

I was already going deaf in my late teens so music was just a jumble of noise even then.

 

[Hvymax]

I started wrecking my hearing when I got my hands on the Improvised Munitions Handbook in the early 70's. Every 14yr old needed one!!!

 

[Fox Mike]

Then we had Tutti Frutti with "Whop bop b-luma b-lop bam bom!". Too cheap to hire a drummer?

 

[vito]

Not only did most lyrics not make any sense, you have to wonder about people basing their worldview on the words put down by a rock and roll music composer who likely is on drugs.

 

[Johnny-Baseball]

what happens if the "hokie-pokie" was NOT what it was all about?

Then I guess you'd have to turn yourself around.

 

[Jeepnik]

Not only did most lyrics not make any sense, you have to wonder about people basing their worldview on the words put down by a rock and roll music composer who likely is on drugs.

Most of us turned out just fine. Now what were we talking about. I need a snack.

 

[settup6]

Never heard of that tune but this is a song about Rosie and it's R&R!

Nice thing about being a little older, I got to see them do this song live in 1978! They were the warm up band for Aerosmith and by the time they got done we almost forgot we came to see Aerosmith! Damn they were good

 

[friendly]

I have a good one about music that was not appreciated by the captive audience that it was being played for....

I worked in a maximum security prison for many years and one of the lieutenants was Polish. When the convicts would act up he would play polka music over the loudspeaker system. He would announce "da muzikk" in his Buffalo Polish accent... "Dat was Little Wally an da HoopyShoopy!!! Dat was da Beer Barrel Polka by Frankie Yankovic"!!!

He would do it about once a month and the ghettoites would complain. It was hilarious.

I worked in the County Jail. There was a speaker system that had a radio, and the inmates had to listen to whatever we listened to. Not much complaining about the Sunday Mexican hour, but boy did they complain during the Sunday Polish hour.

 

[el caminero]

what happens if the "hokie-pokie" was NOT what it was all about?

Thats the dance mickey did on my watch

 

[el caminero]

Then we had Tutti Frutti with "Whop bop b-luma b-lop bam bom!". Too cheap to hire a drummer?

That was from the days when each group would sing on the streetcorners, or malt shops, and nobody had any instruments (drums, horns, saxophones, whammy'd guitars) they were still poor schoolboys. That trad carried on with beatbox-mouthed rappers. The wah-wah stompbox is from the muted horns and guitar whammy and harmonica.

 

[Watertender]

I want to know "Who put the Bomp in the Bomp shu bomp shu bomp"???

 

[el caminero]

A line stolen from another oldie is..."you'll never know"...