what are you listening to THIS VERY SECOND?

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I was actually good at Trig and Algebra, but I don't remember a slide rule. My worst was Chemistry.

I'm trying to think of more of my dad's fun music from that era.

OMG I just remembered one!


wowwwwwwwwww memories of my dad! He called me Susie Q! He used to sing this! (slightly inappropriate now, lol)

That might have been something "old fashioned" by the 1970s....like inkwells were.

I used to like The Captain and Tennille.

I knew a girl I used to call Suzie-Q. It's a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Their first hit from 1968.

I was called Susie Q almost exclusively until I was about 13. I don't remember my father calling me anything else.

I used to love this song -- dancing in my grandparents' garden in Los Angeles with my cousins April and Tricia.
They had palm trees and a "cocktail" swimming pool with coloured lights at night. It was our muskrat pond.

I liked calling girls that.....it was cute, and flirtatious----but not really sleazy.

I was considered a pretty naive kid, actually, by most girls. A little too "goody-goody."

There was a bubblegum song called "Goody Goody Gumdrops" which I liked. I used to say that phrase sometimes. And when I was upset, I'd say "Phooey!"

Yep....Muskrat Love!! !!

Phooey lol

I think the reason I got into Elton John and Crocodile Rock (Susie) was because my dad called me Susie Q.
(When I wrote his eulogy I signed it from Susie Q).

I find Susie-Q to be cool. Reminds me of Sadie Hawkins Day (when the girls used to pursue the guys), or of Becky from Tom Sawyer. A feminine girl who's not too prissy. And she's nice, too.

The Buckinghams did a song called "Susan" in 1967.

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I remember this on the radio in California, riding in one of those huge old cars going to an Italian restaurant.
I was about seven.

I suddenly miss my maternal grandparents and cousins.

The name Susie / Susan is yellow, and so are a lot of my childhood memories (synaesthesia).
I never read Tom Sawyer but I don't like prissy girls either.

I will look for Buckinghams

In the meantime this just came on youtube following Dont Go Breaking My Heart, so enjoy.

Second last song at the Elton shows.

I think of it as the first song after Elton John "got it together." Supposedly, he was living too wild a lifestyle before 1976, then mellowed out in 1976, and didn't wear those big glasses any more.

Elton John was BIG around 1974-1975. Kids used to fight to get the latest Elton John album.


I used to find the song "Daniel" sad. I even was sad when I heard it as a little kid.

Now with the Captain and Tennille, you're playing more songs from my youth. Here's another my Mom used to play and sing around the house.



The first few notes of this song are very similar to the first few notes of New Order's version of the Joy Division song - Ceremony. I never realized that until now.

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My mother used to listen to “Leave me Alone” by Helen Reddy. She used to want to be left alone lol.

I was just wondering if you were out there, Magna! Hello!

I liked Anne Murray too!

Here is that Buckingham song. I don't really know it, but it's sweet!

Anybody remember "Dust in the Wind" by Boston?

I LOVE THIS SONG

I wanted it to be my ....um...... first song. lol