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>>>>>Now you've gone and done it. The only way I got this song out of my head was to replace it "OOO OOO OOO Looking out my back door"
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>>>>Dangerous territory for those of us of a certain age and geographic location circa early 70s. Memories of elephants ...
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>>>( and now I can't get Yellow River and Cracklin' Rose out of *my* head )
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>>Ok. That does it! From the guy who quoted "Do You Hear the People Sing", we now get "Cracklin' Rosie"????? Jeez. Man, I'm beginning to think you alone were separated at birth. The mere idea of Neil Diamond makes me want to run and hide. Big fan too of I Am, I Said? Stupidest song ever written... well, ok, maybe not counting MacArthur Park.
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>Oh, Cracklin' Rose wasn't exactly the number I was punching on the juke box, but there was a time when you couldn't walk into a bar or a massage parlor in Bangkok, ChiengMai, Vientiene or Saigon without hearing it at least 100 times, sometimes by Neil Diamond, sometimes by a band who had learned the words phonetically. And, of course, Creedance. And Paint it Black will always sound like helicopters and Jumpin' Jack Flash puts me in the Barbarella discoteque in Singapore.

Unfortunately, when that was going on in Bangkok, etc, it was also happening here in North America.

>Just Proustian Madelines in an old man's memories of temps perdu

I like that. Can I use it?