These days, my anxiety level is getting a bit high. Most of the time I just feel like curling up into a fetal position until 10:00 PM on November 6th, when, for better or worse, it will all be over. So, as far as music is concerned, I’m retreating into the past, into the glorious 60s, when even the third raters were making great music.
I may have put up Lou Christie before, and in fact, I may have put up this very video, but I don’t care. This is not great music, but if you were around back then, and even if you weren’t, this stuff can’t help but make you feel good. One thing I like about Christie is that he didn’t take himself at all seriously. This video is from Fabian’s Good Time Rock & Roll Show. Fabian, from what I can recall, was a rock ‘n roll idol totally fabricated by pernicious capitalists who saw him as an Elvis Presley clone. Whatever. He apparently had some hits, but I can’t recall any. Christie, on the other hand, had several fun smashes. I know there’s good music being made today, but one thing, I think, has disappeared. Even when Christie’s gypsy cried, beneath it all, everyone was having fun. Not that it’s unjustified, but there’s too much despair nowadays. Anyway, here he is, singing two of his greatest hits.
Now, as a bonus, here’s Lou, again on the Fabian show, with fellow relic Leslie Gore.
Eleven days. O God who does not exist, make them pass swiftly.
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