"....You were workin' as a waitress in a cocktail bar When I met you I picked you out, I shook you up and turned you around Turned you into someone new Now five years later on, you've got the world at your feet Success has been so easy for you But don't forget, it's me who put you where you are now And I can put you back down too
Don't....don't you want me? You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me Don't....don't you want me? You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me It's much too late to find You think you've changed your mind You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry
Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me? Oh
For some inexplicable reason ...today iam mostly humming...
"Oh! Carol, I am but a fool Darling, I love you... though you treat me cruel You hurt me...and you made me cry But if you leave me...I will surely die Darling, there will never be another 'Cause I love you so Don't ever leave me Say you'll never go I will always want you for my sweetheart No matter what you do Oh! Carol.....I'm so in love with you...."
I rarely know which songs Bill is singing. They're like the generic tunes my grandfather would sing as he repaired something around the house or something.
Well, you brought it up, so here’s The Cyrkle with Red Rubber Ball
At least they did twice as well as most “One-Hit Wonder” groups! Sadly, like so many groups that had to depend on other writers for their material, the well dried up quickly. I loved both their hit songs. I was 10 when RRB was really racking up on AM radio in ’66. One day, while riding with my aunt in her car, the song was playing on our local AM station and we listened to it. At the end of it, the DJ started scat singing over the closing chords (remember how DJ’s would talk over intros and outros – made me furious), going “Doobey doo, doobey doo, doobey do wop, doo! I screamed “Shut up, dipsh*t!” at the DJ before I realized what I was saying. My aunt was cool with that.
Gave both songs a listen today. "Turn-Down Day", while catchy, has a rotten-sounding vocal. Yesterday I had a migraine headache and thought the song sounded awful because of that, but no it's the vocal. I'm noticing the awfulness of many a tune that were hits and which I once loved.
Red Rubber Ball was written by Paul Simon, was it not?
Gave both songs a listen today. "Turn-Down Day", while catchy, has a rotten-sounding vocal. Yesterday I had a migraine headache and thought the song sounded awful because of that, but no it's the vocal. I'm noticing the awfulness of many a tune that were hits and which I once loved.
Red Rubber Ball was written by Paul Simon, was it not?
Correctomundo! Simon wrote RRB and TDD was by Keller and Blume. Brian Epstein gave the band their name and John Lennon came up with the unusual spelling of "Cyrkle" - other than those minor items they were quite original.
They were talented musicians and singers. They started out as a "Frat Rock" band - what band in the 1960s DIDN'T start out as that or a "Garage" band?
A classic from the 80s, a John Peel favourite. Pete Wylie and Josie Jones. Pete's riposte to the government of the day's attempt to destroy the city of Liverpool. Which they failed to do...
I'm surprised the Liverpool FC hooligans-of-the-day didn't already destroy the city.
God, look at that 1980s hair! Who could take anything they sing about seriously?!? (I have no opinion of the UK's government of that day, so please don't view this as a defense of it).
I'm noticing the awfulness of many a tune that were hits and which I once loved. 
