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Loved this relationship story - and what thoughtful gifts (apart from the metaphorical boot, of course).

I rather like Leonard Cohen. 'Everybody Knows', ironically, for a Cohen number - always makes me laugh - and then of course feel very guilty about it!

Eddie Cochrane - well, much jollier all round, really. 🕺

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Lol re your dad being banished. I love the words of his songs, the ones I can understand at least, but the whole effect is to dampen the atmosphere. "Odd" is certainly one way of describing it!

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Great read, Terry. I don't know any Rod M, but makes me want to take a read.

My dad is a big Cohen fan. He used to get banished to his study to listen to it because mum found it too melancholy. I like it, but it does indeed seem an odd choice after Santana.

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Ps, don't read it unless you have plenty of tissues, if you're basically a big softie like me.

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Noted*

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Yes, also a big softie here 😄. Notes, thanks.

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chortle!

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I remember sobbing into a new boyfriend's shoulder one night, overcome with emotion over Norwegian Wood. It was the 70s. We'd lost sight of the likes of Eddie Cochran.

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Well it IS a beautiful song. Actually, so had I until my girlfriend bought Mr that record. 😀

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And now I’ve gone off to read Rod McKuen … I seem to remember him appearing on my parents’ bookshelf when I was a kid

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yeah, well take plenty of tissues with you.

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Rod McKuen, now there's a blast from the past. So funny about the Leonard Cohen music bringing the group down, down, down. 😄

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Yeah well, it was a weird choice!

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😅

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😆

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I get it, Terry, but if I had to choose between Eddie C and Rod McK, even now it’d be Eddie!

Still, the gifts of a first girlfriend are rarely trifles.

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Me too, but why not both? 😁

I agree with the ‘trifles’ bit, definitely.

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Well, I was never a fan of McKuen, but on your rec I shall reread.

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Buy a big box of Kleenex then

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1956! Eddie Cochran, hep cat par excellence. Love the knee action. And as for Jane Mansfield's bullet bra, well, thank heaven THAT fad was gone before I ever needed to wear one..

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His whole performance is kind of strange, body-wise. As for bullet bras, I was too young to appreciate them. 🤣

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And then there was Eddie's biggest hit, the immortal "Summertime Blues": "I'm gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler/I've been working all summer just trying to earn a dollar"...

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That was the first record of his I ever heard! Brilliant

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That's a very healthy perspective. & I remember Rod McKuen. My mom looked at my choices in potential role models with some dismay & even tried to dissuade me from being a fan ! Since dad was away her opinion had more clout / oomph !

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Thanks, Daniel! I still think he's an acquired taste, and I'm still not sure I've acquired it!

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I can even remember a TV series from the same period, approximately, " Dark Shadows ", a Gothic " soap opera " which had Jonathan Frid as a Dracula - type vampire. My mother, being a solid Southern Baptist, tried to discourage morally sketchy content from my youthful optic nerves lest Baal gain a foothold. 👁️👁️

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I don't blame her!

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Jonathan had groupies, Sylvester McCoy, one of the actors who played the Doctor, even played Dracula to acclaim.

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I didn't know either of those things!

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I keep apprised of pop culture even more since getting back into digital art. I' thinking about doing a digital Carmen ! My stepsister LOVES Bizet & it's one of the few operas that doesn't make me feel like hibernating.

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definitely a strange combo! I could never stand Pam AYRES TBH. I knew about the Dave Dee connection, but had no idea about the multitracking stuff. Thanks!

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I didn't know she'd been a spy. Mega cool.

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