Perry from OttawaDear Kevin from Oregon.But I remember that song on her car radio :) But it was kind of cold on that day, early June 1968, and I think she finally gave up. I was in a summer recreation program, and my teacher/coach was driving us around town trying to find a place where we kids could run around and be kids. Kev from Rogers, ArI remember this song from 1968.Ralphm from Sebring FlKevin from Oregon: Get off the stuff NOW! NO one hears that or ever has.except you, who obviously partakes.They were girls and guys our age: 18, 19 years old, 20 years old, who were into the music." (Check out our interview with Floyd Marcus.) We find that out on the road, when we're out on the road, our fans weren't just little kids coming to see us. But I think it caught on with a lot of older people, too. And that was probably the young teenager that was neglected in the industry with all the music that was coming out. So when 'Simon Says' came out, and 'One, Two, Three Red Light' came out, and 'May I Take A Giant Step' came out, there was a market that we were playing for. I think it was kind of a rebellion, and people wanted a rest from all that. The Beatles had morphed from this pop group into Sergeant Pepper, It was getting heavier out there. There was Jimi Hendrix, there was The Doors, Zeppelin came on the scene around '69. But looking back in retrospect, we feel that its time had come, because people in that five-year period were kind of tired of all the heaviness of music. When these songs were released, especially 'Simon Says' being the first one in '68, a lot of people didn't take to it, feeling it didn't have a lot of substance. But I think a lot of it was that there was so much serious content in the years of the Vietnam War, and all the rebellion that was going on, all the drug culture that was going on. There was so much social commentary in music back then, there was a lot of sexual innuendo. I guess it partially came as a rebellion against the music. Floyd Marcus told us: "There wasn't really a genre at that time. "(Poor Old) Mr.At the time, the term "Bubblegum Music" didn't exist."May I Take A Giant Step (Into Your Heart)" (Elliot Chiprut) – 2:24."Reflections From The Looking Glass" (Frank Jeckell, Mark Gutkowski, Ted Gutkowski) – 3:04."May I Take a Giant Step (Into Your Heart)" Mark Gutkowski – Lead Singer and Organ Player.The album cover featured film strips from a photo shoot of the band members, a design that presumably inspired the cover of Swedish pop group Secret Service's 1979 single "Oh Susie"/"Give Me Your Love." Track listing This claim is disputed by original drummer Floyd Marcus, who has stated that all five men listed really were behind the instruments. It's been debated whether or not the members of the band actually played on the album since the Ohio Express, another band put together by Super K Productions (headed by Jerry Kasenetz and Jeffry Katz), actually consisted of two groups: one that produced the records and another that toured and promoted the name. Released in 1968, it included two songs that appeared on the Billboard Hot 100-the most from any of the group's albums-although it was not their highest-charting album. Simon Says is the debut album by the American bubblegum pop group the 1910 Fruitgum Company on the Buddah Records label.
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