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Music Appreciation

moniss

(6,209 posts) Fri Nov 29, 2024, 10:35 AM Nov 29

Check out the prices

and remember how cool it was to get a sandwich for 60 cents, a big root beer for 20 cents and you had room left over for an ice cream cone. A dollar for yours and a dollar for buying the same for the girl you just met who has sparkling eyes and then you walk along after and reach for her hand as you walk. When she takes your hand you get a jolt to your heart and you start thinking that if this is forever it would be really cool.

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Check out the prices (Original Post) moniss Nov 29 OP

Yes, the good old days - if that's 1966 like the Turtles cover - when minimum wage was $1.25 an hour. :) Cool song, highplainsdem Nov 29 #1

highplainsdem

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1. Yes, the good old days - if that's 1966 like the Turtles cover - when minimum wage was $1.25 an hour. :) Cool song,

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Fri Nov 29, 2024, 12:23 PM

Nov 29

though.

Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan of the Turtles also recorded a lot as Flo & Eddie, including with T.Rex/Marc Bolan.

Producer Tony Visconti wrote in his bio that they rehearsed this song at Kaylan's Laurel Canyon home before recording it the next day:

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