Here is a commercial from 1967 when McDonald’s was boasting that they had 600 restaurants. I probably haven’t heard this jingle since I was a kid and I was able to start singing along with it. A perfect jingle since the goal is for you to remember the place and hopefully, the song gets stuck in your head!
Month: September 2022
Video Heads Need Cleaning
Oh, the kids today don’t know the struggles. Everything in our day was physical media and subject to all sorts of problems. Photography, video, and even money are now digital/electronic. Sure, it is not without its problems but they are so much less today! But I remember wanting to record on my cassette player the first run of the Brady Bunch off the TV in the 70s. Recording TV was truly revolutionary!
Tokin’ With Lawrence Welk
It’s hard to believe this song was performed on the Lawrence Welk Show in 1971. At the end of the clip, Lawrence Welk calls it a modern spiritual song. It is not known if this was serious or if a writer pulled a prank on the show but this song One Toke Over The Line was originally performed by Brewer and Shipley and the lyrics are a direct reference to smoking the Mary Jane, weed, reefer or jive LOL.
If your dad made you watch Lawrence Welk like mine did, you can now show them the type of abuse you had to endure!
Forgotten Hit: Holdin’ On
I have over 5,000 songs on my mp3 player from the ’60s through the ’90s. I like putting it on a mix to hear a large variety. It also gives me ideas for this page.
Holdin’ On came on and it had that driving sound from the ’80s but I couldn’t remember who performed. Turns out to Be Tane Cain. At first, I thought that was the band name but that is the performer.
She is the daughter of actor Doug McClure and she first appeared in the TV series The Virginian when she was just 5 years old. In the 1970’s she met and married Journey’s keyboardist Johnathan Cain. Now known as Tané Cain she got a record deal with RCA. The first release Danger Zone failed to chart but his song Holdin’ On made it to number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100. Billboard described her as “an artist to watch” She hated when people compared her to Pat Benatar even though her music was produced to sound like Bentar’s. She prefers the comparison to her idol Grace Slik. RCA never renewed her contract and she never recorded again. She went on to play Elle Woods in the 2001 movie Legally Blonde.
Mini NFL Helmets
Oh, the money I spent on collecting these mini helmets, twenty-five cents at a time. Of course, you would get duplicates and never the team you wanted it seemed. Fortunately, I grew up with four other brothers that I could trade with but these weren’t like the baseball trading cards most of my friends collected. Today, you didn’t have to buy them a couple at a time but you can go to eBay and buy the whole collection for just twenty-five bucks!
