Friday Featured Track
The song that has been on my brain the most this week:
- “You Baby” by The Turtles, the title track to the folk-rock/pop band’s second album, released in 1966.
This perky ditty is one of the many songs of the ’60s my dad owns on vinyl 45s. I have very clear childhood memories of my sister and me singing into hairbrushes and dancing on our parents’ bed to this fun love song.
With its peppy percussion and backing oohs and ahhs, this song is perfect for bopping along in the car with the windows or the top down. (Although with the weather as steamy as it’s been, it’s probaby best to wait until after dark for open windows.)
Interesting rock ‘n’ roll tidbit: After The Turtles split, founding members and dual frontmen Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman joined Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention under the unusual moniker “The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie.”
Check out this vintage black-and-white performance of “You Baby,” courtesy some clever YouTuber. (Don’t worry, the bouncy bleachers don’t fall; this isn’t a miniature disaster flick.)
-BAM
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I’m not ashamed to say this song was played at my wedding reception. It always makes me happy.