Posted on 08/11/2018 6:04:18 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Here is pop nugget from the past that only more "seasoned" Freepers will remember.
Released in 1967, it was a Top 30 hit in America and had an otherworldly vibe to it. Very trippy and psychedelic. I can almost picture Frank asking his daughter what the hell she and Lee were smoking to come up with this one.
I was just a small boy when this was popular but I remember hearing it on the radio. The accompanying video I linked here has a post apocalyptic "Planet of the Apes" feel to it. I did not discover the video until recently.
Personally, I think the song stands the test of time very well although the recording techniques used are definitely primitive by today's standards.
Nobody ever did get around to telling me about Phaedra.
Art Bell used this song as bumper music. Very psychedelic indeed.
There is an interview with Mr. Hazlewood somewhere in the Art Bell archives. Phaedra storyline is discussed. I don’t remember much about it. I’ll do a search.
George Noory who replaced Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM continues to use that song for their bumper music.
That’s nice, but Nancy is a leftist tool. What bother?
There is this:
Phaedra is best known for her role in Euripides’ play, the Hippolytus. The plot follows a pattern of sexual intrigue and betrayal that has parallels in ancient Mediterranean myths, mostly notably, the Biblical account of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife.
Phaedra married Theseus who has a son, Hippolytus, from a previous marriage to Antiope. The young Hippolytus, however, angered Aphrodite by shunning her worship and devoting himself entirely to Artemis, the virgin goddess of the hunt. To punish him, Aphrodite compels Phaedra to begin lusting after the young man. At first, she resisted, and sought magic cures for her passions, or at least a noble death. Hippolytus learns of Phaedra’s desire for him through Phaedra’s nurse and launches into a fierce denunciation of women — a locus classicus for misogyny.
Out of shame and guilt Phaedra hung herself, but not until she’d left a letter condemning him of trying to rape her. Hipploytus was trapped into silence because he had promised that whatever Phaedra’s nurse told him, he would never repeat. Therefore, when confronted by his father he was defenseless. Out of anger Theseus asked Poseidon to punish Hippolytus, which he did. Hippolytus died as Poseidon’s bull emerged from the sea frightened his horses. Unfortunately, after it was too late, Artemis revealed the truth to Theseus concerning his son and Phaedra.
In a typical Euripidean deus ex machina, the goddess Artemis is questioned as to why she stood by and allowed her devoted follower to be destroyed. She reminds the chorus that there is an agreement among the gods that the favorites of one divinity can be destroyed by another divinity at will. It is scant consolation that she promises that someday she’ll similarly destroy a mortal favorite of Aphrodite in revenge. And so “As flies are to wanton boys, are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport” (Shakespeare, “King Lear”).
Midnight in the Desert =>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cmUpgvmFk4
Cusco Inca dance => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLiLMboE9I8
That was a big hit in the first weeks of 1968. It got a lot of airplay out here on Boss Radio 93 KHJ and if I remember correctly, it even made the playlist on my favorite radio station at the time, KWIZ at 1480 kilocycles. KWIZ played mostly oldies, but occasionally, a newie would sneak onto the playlist.
I remember my parents had the 8 track and we listened to it many times over the course of a long road trip. I guess I was 8 or 9.
I was more of a Beatles fan, but something about that album really appealed to me.
Whatever happened to Hazelwood? He was in a movie called The Moonshine War with Patrick McGoohan and Alan Alda. Good flick.
Lord I’d forgotten that song. I was a second grader.
I know that recording. It’s more a musical experience, vs listening to a ‘song’. Very interesting and alluring.
Sort of Clint Eastwood meets Peter Max.
Also, I was not aware Art Bell used this song as bumper musiic. In my younger days, I used to occasionally do "all-nighter" drives and his show would be on the radio late at night. He creeped me out more than once. I never became a regular listener but I immediately recognized his appeal.
He spent some years in Europe after his ‘60s success. He was more of a songwriter and producer than a performer.
He wrote These Boots are Made for Walkin’, and I think he produced it for Nancy.
Holy smokes! I totally forgot about this song, but now that I hear it, I remember it well. I was 10 years old when it was playing all the time on the radio in Los Angeles, and I thought it was weird then. I doubt very seriously I’ve heard this in 50 years (I’ve never listened to Art Bell).
It doesn't seem to be found on many "oldies" playlists.
I’ve had a Nancy Sinatra cd for about 20 years now in my vast music collection titled “You GO-Go Girl. It was produced by Lee Hazelwood and Billy Strange. Lee wrote about four or five songs on the album. Nancy sings Your Groovy Self...that was the song she did on the Elvis Presley movie Speedway which I still have on vcr tape. And she does You Only Live Twice from the Bond movie of the same title.
Having said that, I still despise her!
When I first got into classical music, I took a liking to the music of Wagner, especially the instrumental preludes and overtures to his operas. As I learned more about him, I realized he was a rather nasty man who was an anti-semite and on top of that, was practically worshipped by Adolf Hitler with much of his music being co-opted by the Third Reich.
But the music was stupendous and I even started getting into the full operas. So like many others, including Jews, I was able to separate the art from the man so that I could appreciate the music.
But I agree, it's tough to do sometimes.
Although her father was once a liberal—he recorded JFK’s campaign song when he ran against Nixon—by 1980, he was supporting Ronald Reagan.
He died in 2008. Renal cancer.
But, once upon a time.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyAZQ45uww
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