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  • Hang On Sloopy

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 27 19:53:10 2025
    Rick Derringer, who sang the hit songs "Hang On Sloopy" and "Rock and
    Roll, Hoochie Koo" in a music career that spanned several decades and
    also included collaborations with Hulk Hogan and Weird Al Yankovic,
    died on Monday. He was 77.

    https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com/post/3lq6wpnlp3c24

    Hang On Sloopy

    A cover...not his

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 27 20:08:50 2025
    Hang On Sloopy

    A cover...not his

    Never understood that song. Sloopy, what is that? Someone's name?

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to fungus@amongus.com.invalid on Tue May 27 21:25:45 2025
    On Tue, 27 May 2025 20:08:50 -0600, Retrograde
    <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    Sloopy, what is that?

    [Verse 1]
    Sloopy lives in a very bad part of town (Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
    And everybody, yeah, tries to put my Sloopy down (Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
    Sloopy, I don't care what your daddy do (Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
    'Cause you know, Sloopy, girl, I'm in love with you (Ooh, ooh, ooh,
    ooh)
    And so I say now

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbZq5idUJcI

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Wed May 28 18:27:43 2025
    On Tue, 27 May 2025 21:25:45 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    On Tue, 27 May 2025 20:08:50 -0600, Retrograde
    <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    Sloopy, what is that?

    [Verse 1]
    Sloopy lives in a very bad part of town (Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
    And everybody, yeah, tries to put my Sloopy down (Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
    Sloopy, I don't care what your daddy do (Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
    'Cause you know, Sloopy, girl, I'm in love with you (Ooh, ooh, ooh,
    ooh)
    And so I say now

    So basically, "it's the 60s and we're all on drugs" or something like
    that (ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh).

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to fungus@amongus.com.invalid on Wed May 28 20:04:12 2025
    On Wed, 28 May 2025 18:27:43 -0600, Retrograde
    <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    So basically, "it's the 60s and we're all on drugs" or something like
    that (ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh).

    I have not compared the original with Rick Derringer's version. I
    have not associated drugs with that tune. In 1964, I don't recall
    drug usage being widespread. Rick was 17 at the time of the
    recording, and in later years, he did use amphetamines.

    1964 song written by Wes Farrell and Bert Berns.
    "Hang On Sloopy" (originally "My Girl Sloopy") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_On_Sloopy

    What is the meaning behind the song "Hang on Sloopy"?

    As legend has it, the song's namesake is tied to Steubenville native
    Dorothy Sloop, who -- depending on the story you hear -- either struck
    up a conversation about her name with young men at Dixie's Bar of
    Music in New Orleans or, during a difficult moment there onstage, was
    cheered from the crowd with a kindly "Hang on, ..Sep 26, 2013
    www.dispatch.com

    "In 1967, the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, and the
    Monterey International Pop Festival[12] popularized hippie culture,
    leading to the Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States,
    and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to fungus@amongus.com.invalid on Wed May 28 20:23:47 2025
    On Wed, 28 May 2025 18:27:43 -0600, Retrograde
    <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    So basically


    "Derringer has been on the scene since 1965, when he was the
    16-year-old front man for the McCoys, a group that hit No. 1 with
    "Hang On Sloopy." Back then, he once said, was "like Christmas every
    day. What teen-ager could ask for more than to have the top record in
    the world, girls screaming and pulling your clothes off everywhere you
    go?"

    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-04-ca-19122-story.html

    Rick Derringer - Back To The Blues (1993) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtQlVBgFCEw

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu May 29 18:15:21 2025
    On Wed, 28 May 2025 20:04:12 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    On Wed, 28 May 2025 18:27:43 -0600, Retrograde
    <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    So basically, "it's the 60s and we're all on drugs" or something like
    that (ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh).

    ... In 1964, I don't recall
    drug usage being widespread.

    Fair enough, I forgot the 60s didn't begin until the end of the decade.
    I stand corrected. But I *am* annoyed I've had this crap song stuck in
    my head all day.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to fungus@amongus.com.invalid on Thu May 29 19:36:58 2025
    On Thu, 29 May 2025 18:15:21 -0600, Retrograde
    <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    ... In 1964, I don't recall
    drug usage being widespread.

    ....the 60s

    In larger cities, "underground music" may have been played via AM
    radio stations, but in many locations, local sponsors would have
    rejected such music.

    "Underground music is music with practices perceived as outside, or
    somehow opposed to, mainstream popular music culture." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_music

    "The Fugs are an American rock band formed in New York City in late
    1964,[2] by the poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver
    on drums.....The band was one of the leaders of the underground scene
    of the 1960s and became an important part of the American
    counterculture of that decade.[3]"
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fugs

    "One of the earliest uses of the term "psychedelic" in music was by
    The Holy Modal Rounders in 1964. The genre gained significant traction
    during the "Summer of Love" in 1967 and continued to evolve throughout
    the late 1960s and early 1970s"

    "The original members of the Beat Generation used several different
    drugs, including alcohol, marijuana, benzedrine, morphine, and later psychedelic drugs such as peyote, ayahuasca, and LSD. They often
    approached drugs experimentally, initially being unfamiliar with their effects.....In the 1960s, elements of the expanding Beat movement were incorporated into the hippie and larger counterculture movements." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation

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