[SamAdams76]

Thanks for posting this. Wish I could say this brought back fond memories but back in 1966 when this song was popular, I was just getting out of diapers and learning how to eat with a fork.

Good song though. Those guys looked like they were having fun.

Did anybody notice how that seagull flew by in the background at around the 1:22 mark of that video? I'm thinking that was totally unscripted but it worked! That seagull was pretty awesome.

[spankalib]

They WERE having fun weren’t they?
His smarmy chuckles - played and recorded perfectly for the subject matter of the song.
I thought the “gurlz version” (what? @ 20 yrs. later?) highlighted an interesting change in styles...
- it was harder, edgier, angrier - though the girl tried to carry off the chuckle, the music was fuller (jmo)
- the videography difference. Notice how the camera becomes part of the song in the later version. It jerks the viewer around, never letting us ‘settle’ on any one scene. I do not like that style. It’s distracting. Unnecessary. Like looking through ADHD eyes.

Though technically ‘cruder’ I suppose, the earlier version had a lighter innocence to it (yes, and a seagull!). It was better...