Do you think these people have the slightest clue what they're singing about in this "modern spiritual" song?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.As a side note.....It's been a long time since I've seen a woman in a white pinafore.
TheoryNumber3
Level 8
Sep 10, 2020
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This is not a modern spiritual. It is a junky country song.
wordywalt
Level 9
Sep 9, 2020
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I know that... but that's how they referred to it in the video... a modern spiritual song.
@Fred_Snerd I remember that group! Love it! Can't understand a word she's saying, but I like it anyway.
@Fred_Snerd I'm a honkytonk woman so I like it. That's some obscure country music you're diggin up.
Maybe the boss didn't, but some of the low key folks were just there for a paycheck and airtime and Ill bet many knew.
Beowulfsfriend
Level 9
Sep 9, 2020
1
sounds like the wheel bearings going out on my truck........
Redneckliberal
Level 7
Sep 9, 2020
4
Omg so funny.
Same show had Bobby & Sissy dancing in low quality Batman and Robin costumes to the bat man TV show music in elevator music format.
My Stepmom is a huge Lawrence Welk fan.
My life has always been cring.
Willow_Wisp
Level 8
Sep 9, 2020
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Saw this before and it's the funniest thing ever.
starwatcher-al
Level 7
Sep 9, 2020
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I've never considered this song to be a spiritual. I've always just thought of it as a pro-weed hymn.
Sgt_Spanky
Level 8
Sep 9, 2020
4
Jeez people, pay attention. The band leader in the above video referred to it as a "modern spiritual song". We sang the hell out of that song in the 70's when we were stoned.
WTF?!?!? That's fucked up man. The song was released in 1970 and was number 10 on the charts by 1971. I was a senior in high school, turned 18 6 months before graduation, had my own car and was literally one toke over the line a lot. The term 'sweet jesus' had nothing to do with religion.
Good times.
silverotter11
Level 9
Sep 9, 2020
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Not a bad song but I'm not going to watch the Lawrence Welk version. Goes to show how people in my generation ended up. The generation of hippies has fallen so far.
Theresa_N
Level 8
Sep 9, 2020
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I'm not sure I agree with that. The hippies of the 60s are the liberal seniors of today. There will always be the free thinkers vs. the brainwashed.
@TheoryNumber3 this area of the Ozarks was heavily bought up by hippies in the 60s and 70s . They, their kids and grandkids almost all became Tea party member ultra evangelicals over time who are all far more conservative than the original farmers were a few decades ago.
@wolf041 How is that even possible? That's very depressing if true. Do you have anything you can send me about that?
@TheoryNumber3 it's just been an observation over a few decades. I've watched it go from leaning progressive ( aside from the areas that were always kkk strongholds)during the Clinton governor years to mindless hardcore ultra right wing everything. Ever since that ultra right wing nut Hucksterbe slithered in after Clinton went to Washington it's just got steadily worse since. n
From Wikipedia:
Mike Brewer gives this account of the origin of the song, "One day we were pretty much stoned and all and Tom says, “Man, I’m one toke over the line tonight.” I liked the way that sounded and so I wrote a song around it."
The song gained popular acclaim while the band was touring as an opening act for Melanie, after they received an encore but had run out of other songs to play. Spiro Agnew said the song with its reference to marijuana use was "blatant drug-culture propaganda" that "threatens to sap our national strength," pressuring the FCC to include the song on its list of music banned from the airwaves because of drug references.
It is an official one hit wonder.
Mofo1953
Level 9
Sep 9, 2020
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Tom Shipley lives about 33 miles form me but I have never met him.
melanie, BOBOS PARTY, 1969. thank you. ................ is the same coutry? same planet?
@holdenc98 She's scary!!
@OldMetalHead Tiptoe thru the tulips? Now THAT was an inexplicable phenomenon
@TheoryNumber3 Tiny Tim died a number of years ago here in Minneapolis, very poor I believe. They held a big funeral at the basilica.
@Theresa_N I did not know that. He was a phenomenon
I read an article years ago about how awful working for Lawrence Well was. Rules about private and public behavior, dress codes, etc.
UUNJ
Level 8
Sep 9, 2020
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