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Rick Nelson - Garden Party live
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Posted on 01/19/2022 4:31:36 PM PST by FLNittany

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1 posted on 01/19/2022 4:31:36 PM PST by FLNittany
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To: FLNittany

This song always reminds me of the fishing road trip dad took the family on to Kamploops in 1972. Hotter’n hell that summer.


2 posted on 01/19/2022 4:36:22 PM PST by skeeter
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To: FLNittany

There is a great story behind this song. The garden was MSG. And the party was a oldies concert he got boo’d at because he tried singing some new songs. All they wanted was “ hello mary lou” he was disgusted with singing the same songs every night. The man was real, the man was really a golden person .


3 posted on 01/19/2022 4:39:27 PM PST by Ikeon (Amund abruy was a thief who got caught and a was a general pos. Never talk to THE COPS )
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I wish I had his hair. And of course his talent. He was a good actor as well obviously.


4 posted on 01/19/2022 4:40:51 PM PST by FLNittany
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Always loved that song. “Yoko brought her walrus” cracks me up.

Ricky supposedly wrote the song as a response to his perception he had been booed at Madison Square Garden the year earlier. But some people who were there claim that the crowd wasn’t actually booing Nelson but some sort of crowd skirmish with the police that Nelson couldn’t see from the stage.


5 posted on 01/19/2022 4:41:56 PM PST by irishjuggler
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If memories were all I sing, I’d rather drive a truck.


6 posted on 01/19/2022 4:44:27 PM PST by Ikeon (Amund abruy was a thief who got caught and a was a general pos. Never talk to THE COPS )
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To: FLNittany
Rick was the real deal when I was in high school in the '50's.

Poor Little Fool

7 posted on 01/19/2022 4:45:17 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: skeeter

I lived in Logan Lake once upon a time!


8 posted on 01/19/2022 4:45:42 PM PST by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP))
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To: Ikeon

All they wanted was “ hello mary lou”

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A truly great song, great arrangement and an iconic lead by James Burton. Who wouldn’t want to hear it?

Burton played some incredible leads on Nelson’s songs, taking many of them into another dimension.


9 posted on 01/19/2022 4:48:01 PM PST by Starboard
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To: rockabyebaby

Did you catch any fish? Cause we didn’t.


10 posted on 01/19/2022 4:49:46 PM PST by skeeter
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To: FLNittany

The guy was a genuine superstar. Probably bigger than Elvis at one time.

As someone who was alive back then, I don’t think so.

Rick Nelson got his start on his parent’s TV show (Ozzie and Harriet) in the 1950s. I doubt if the average adult today would know who Rick Nelson was but would know who Elvis was.

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11 posted on 01/19/2022 4:50:24 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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12 posted on 01/19/2022 4:54:28 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Which is why I typed “at one time”. Not now. “At one time.”


13 posted on 01/19/2022 4:56:18 PM PST by FLNittany
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Sort of like Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Salieri was big in the moment but faded into obscurity while Mozart has become immortal in a sense.


14 posted on 01/19/2022 4:57:19 PM PST by DoubleNickle
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Rick Nelson appeared at the old Good Time Theater (formerly John Wayne Theater) at Knott’s Berry Farm when I was working there while in college. Pretty sure it was the summer of 1976. I was heading out to the employee parking lot on Western Avenue when I overheard a ruckus at the back entrance to the park. It was Rick Nelson arguing with an employee working the gate. Seems the talent could only get so many people in free and he was pissed because he had more in his entourage.

Just a little random incident I still remember well.


15 posted on 01/19/2022 4:58:30 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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What 1970’s movie did he sing this song? I was teen and loved it. I’m thinking 1974-1976 era.


16 posted on 01/19/2022 5:03:52 PM PST by setter
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He was a great singer and star. I remember the shock of his death on that New Year’s Eve. Wonderful songs. He had real talent.


17 posted on 01/19/2022 5:05:57 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team sco uts photo-op locations.)
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To: FLNittany

Such a great song. Always enjoyed that.

Do you really think it is live? It sounds like a studio recording and lip syncing.


18 posted on 01/19/2022 5:07:42 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: setter

McLeod (1972) 1st episode of 3rd season “The New Mexican Connection”. Rick Nelson sings “Garden Party” in a concert sequence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Party_(Rick_Nelson_song)


19 posted on 01/19/2022 5:09:51 PM PST by DFG
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I didn't know his twin sons were so accomplished. They sound much like dad and have the great harmony of twins.

Nelson Brothers Live in Austin, Texas -- a tribute to their dad.

20 posted on 01/19/2022 5:11:02 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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