This would so totally not fly anymore now...

That was a funny G. Glitter slam.

a radio show i listen to did a segment on this about a month ago, they found a lot of cringy kind of pedo songs from the late sixties early seventies

i'll see if i can find some of the songs

This was one of the "one hit" wonders, wasn't it?

If you play all three at the same time it doesnt sound that offensive anymore. Will that hurt my computer? I mean physically of course.

That depends. How old is your computer?

My computer's fine, but I don't feel well at all...

I always thought Tom Jones was singing this kind of songs....

Well now you are Able 2 Know.

I don't think it's a pedo song at all. Heh -- reminds me of me as a teenager dating college guys. I could have pulled off any age up to mid-20s by the time I was 15.

But, you're right, nimh. Probably would get turned into something totally different today than what it meant at the time.

Edit -- thanks, Tico, I haven't heard those songs in a long time.

We can call it Hawkeye's Theme (only with a different ending?)

This is the one the always creeped me out.

This one's always kind of confused me ... because the lyrics are a little ambiguous about whether he's singing about the character's wife or daughter. Well, OK, they're not really ambiguous, they're about his wife. But it's just, the way he describes her, it's like the way you'd talk about your little girl growing up, and this whole thing of a guy describing his young wife the way one could also describe one's daughter just kind of unnerves me. And yet, for sure, it's also a very moving song, if you can get through the kitsch of it that is.

This one's about his daughter....

Huh, that's funny. Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey" actually directly followed Gary Puckett's "Young Girl" in the jukebox-based Cashbox charts.

And the story of Gary Puckett & the Union Gap is pretty sad, actually.

"Those little eyes / so helpless and appealing"

Yes, I see what you mean....

Not a song, but a book...

Mo came home the other day with a book called "Dear Garbage Man".

It is the heartwarming story of a garbage man's first day on the job and he just cannot believe all the awesome stuff being thrown away. He can't bear to put it in the truck so he ties it all to the top of the truck.

When he gets to the town square he unloads it all and the grateful citizens cart off whatever they can use.

What a guy! A real pioneer in recyling!

But wait!

Our story isn't over quite yet....

The next day our hero starts his route only to find all of the things back on the street with notes explaining that the items can't really be used after all.

This time the garbage man does not hesitate to load the items into the truck because, after all, it's all going to be used to fill in swampland so the city can build a new playground!!!!!

Ahhhh, happy endings -- 1957 style.