Blue Truck, Red State: Sunday Drive: I Get Around

Sunday, August 11, 2024

Sunday Drive: I Get Around

Gay Beach-Ipanema-Rio de Janeiro Brazil

Ah, the sounds of summer - 60 years ago (!) and still just as fine as ever. The Beach Boys performed this hit on the Ed Sullivan Show on September 27, 1964:

The crazed modern world has nothing to compare to this.

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2 comments:

Frank said...: I loved The Beach Boys even though they were super hetero in almost every song they did. They always sang about Girls on the Beach and Wendy and Barbara Ann and the Surfer Girl. So why was I so infatuated with them? I wasn’t identifying with their attraction to girls and they never seemed gay. I will say that I still like their sound and they remind me of the many days I spent at the beach - even though there was no surf along the Connecticut shore.; August 11, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Russ Manley said...: The Beach Boys were just being themselves, writing about the things straight boys loved - surfing, cars, and girls. Nothing wrong with that. And they had a kind of musical magic for a time, as did Lennon & McCartney and other artists we could name. It's just a happy sound, damn good music, and you don't have to be one way or another to enjoy it. I remember when it was all fresh and new and exciting - very hard to believe that was 60 FUCKING YEARS AGO!

In my mind, it was just the other day. Where does the time go?; August 12, 2024 at 2:06 PM