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Here's a tough one, 'Catters!

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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 10:47 AM

No it's "Dum Dum" by Brenda Lee. Go hear and subject yourself to it.
http://www.icast.com/music/1,,1026-5552984,00.html


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Mbo
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 10:43 AM

Actually, Bart, it's called "Kiss Me In The Car" and was the very first song from John Berry way back in oh..1994. Great song...his stuff reminds me SO much of being on Okinawa. Glad to see he's still going strong despite the brain anyeurism he had a couple years ago. BTW you can get the lyrics for "Kiss Me In The Car" right here.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 10:41 AM

Definitely, Brenda Lee. Now it's going through my head. Thanks for nothing. There must be other lyrics...

Kat, you get more special every day. An amazing lady.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Robby
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 10:40 AM

Thanks for tryin' Spaw and Bart. By the way, Spaw, I had no idea that you were such a sensitive romantic.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Jim the Bart
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 10:14 AM

Kat - I think ping-ponging between "serious" and "fun" comes with the territory, whether talking about this or going through it. I like your thoughts on recognizing that romance and sex are different and on being able to figure out which one you should be anticipating. Sometimes that's very hard to do. These thing seem so much clearer in the afterglow. We haven't even mentioned that other bugaboo "love", which is a whole different conversation.

There's a great country song about relighting the old romantic pilot light called "Kissing in the Car" by John Barry. It got some soul to it.

Sorry I can't help you out, Robby, but both Theresa Brewer and Brenda Lee make me break out in hives. And I have to get back to work now. Which is neither sexy nor romantic, but which I do love. Kinda. Sorta. Drat. Have yourselves a wonderful day.
Bart


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 10:11 AM

While we're all working on Robby's, I feel a need to tie this offshoot up a bit. (and I got your pictures Pansy...great lookin' Bird!!!)

Its funny how a few words can trigger memories and the beauty of the 'Cat is that we are generally open and trusting enough to share the experiences, be they good or bad or somewhere in between the two. There were lots of bad times I remember and lots of good ones too. Whatever the feelings we all have, its a fact that we can only go through it once and the sadness I feel for those days is accompanied by equal parts of joy. We discussed some time ago that we no longer have the traditional "rites of passage" that were an integral part of many tribal cultures and that things like the above and "going to the prom" may be what we have substituted.

Still, the best thing to come out of the above ramblings by a number of us is a closer feel for each other and a better idea of who we all are. This doesn't happen many times in our 3-D worlds and makes the 'Cat and its people quite special. Thanks gang.

And now back to Doo-Wop City............Robby, I got no idea!

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Robby
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 09:19 AM

Can we get back to the "dum-dum" songs for a minute, 'cause this one has been driving me nuts since yesterday. Does anyone remember the name of the female recording artist who sang a song that went something like this:

Ah-dum-dum-a-diddely-dum. Oh, yeah!
Ah-dum-dum-a-diddely-dum. Sing it out.

I thing it was either Theresa Brewer or Brenda Lee, but then it could be someone else entirely.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 01:46 AM

Just read your steamy little remembrance of High School romance,Catspaw.That was a jewel. Those drive-in nights with all those steamed-up windows.All those James Bond films I only saw the first half of.That perfumed garden in the backseat of my '61 Galaxy.The prim and proper manner of that girl you had admired in study hall melted completely away. The hot taste of a kiss that stayed in your mouth til you fell asleep,and the smell of her cologne you found in the collar of your shirt the next morning.And those bra clasps..just when I got good,they moved 'em up front. Hello!


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: WyoWoman
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 12:53 AM

You are SO on, 'Spaw ...

ww

(Did you get my t-bird photo? My email evidently went blooey for a while and may still be puny...)


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 12:45 AM

I dunno, Bart. In spite of what I wrote, I did have all kinds of romantic notions about the sex and what I thought it should lead to, which it didn't. We were divorced 5 years later, me with two babies.

I think because I was so honest with my kids, they grew up with a much better idea of what real romantic love can be and how one can have it with or without the sex, and that sex doesn't necessarily lead to romantic love.

Frankly, I am glad my youngest, at 23, has the ability to disconnect. While she has no illusions and can enjoy a tumble with the one she calls her f***buddy, she still has a romantic's heart, albeit with more realistic expectations. One day, I know, she will find someone, when she is ready to look, who has a love of old poetry like she does; who loves horses the way she does; who wants to run his fingers through her long, long auburn hair and all of the other romantic things and it will be good.

I think the third time being married has worked so well for me because I had the experience of learning the separation of sex and romantic love. Too many people get them confused.

Oh, hell, here I've gone and kept this going in a serious direction when it really was just for fun! Ah, well, it's interesting, anyway.

Thanks,

kat


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Jim the Bart
Date: 29 Sep 00 - 12:34 AM

As much as I like to engage the imagination from time to time, I do acknowledge both Peter T. and Kat's reality checks. The fact of the matter is that "all this freedom" has really made things tough for young people. As I see it, our culture has always placed too much weight on s*x while forgetting it's symbiotic relationship to "true heart romance". There is a disconnect now that makes things tougher than they were when we were young. The expectations are different, as are the payoffs.

But I still believe in even "third rate romance". And as I sit here right now, with the doe-eyed romantic gently tucked away somewhere in the back of my mind, the cynic takes the floor and poses his questions: Haven't we had enough? Can't we get past this? Won't we ever get this out of our system? And I say "no, sir. Not in this life."


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 11:59 PM

Gee, Spaw, ya sure know how to get a gyrl all worked up! Really beautifully written, darlin'. Reminds me of the dance we went to from the Mducat Juke Joint, wasn't it? Oops! Does Karen know about that?**BG**

This all came at the close of the 60's for me and I ended up the way of Peter's friend, except that I had never even heard of abortion so didn't even know if it was or was not an option.(I later found out it wasn't available in Colorado. Someone I knew wound up going to New Mexico for a legal *D&C*.)

I do remember not wanting to do the parallel bars and such in gym class and hating our macho gym teacher because she was a bitch about it. I was expected to leave school, which I did, in the middle of my next to last year. I completed that year, with a home teacher. I was suddenly married at 16, a mother at barely 17; my last year of high school never to be.

I do not regret this, though, and have never wished it otherwise. Truth be known, I loved all of the making out, esp. in his 1963 Ford Galaxie convertible, esp. out in the desert in the middle of winter, with the high Rocky Mountain sun warming up our bodies, while the cold air teased certain parts of mine to attention. The main thing that was different for me, by then, from what Spaw has portrayed, is I knew that I wanted IT as much as he did and I made no secret about it. I didn't care if I was considered easy, a slut or anything else. In fact I announced to him, that I thought "god had invented sex to be enjoyed!"

Later on, it seemed this insistent urge might not have all been hormonal to me; when I learned about reincarnation and such, it seemed romantic at the least, divinely ordained at the best, to believe my son was knocking on the door, so to speak, urging us to *plant the seed* that would become the wonderful, loving child he is.

I went on with no stigma, even though it was not the common thing it seems to be, today, for girls to get preggers in high school. I did also go on to champion the right of girls to know about and have available birth control, so they needn't go through what Peter's friend did.

I don't know how they do it these days, because quite frankly the fear of pregnancy seems mild to me, compared to the fear of AIDS, human papiloma virus (which caused cervical cancer in my oldest daughter, from her very first sexual experience,) hepatitis, and all of the other STDs out there. I know there is some romance left because she, my son, and I have talked about it. I made sure they were armed with as much information as they wanted and needed. Unfortunately for her, she still wanted to believe in the good of someone she didn't know very well and let him talk her into not using a condom. I guess some things never changed, eh?


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 10:54 PM

So Pansy...Say I pick you up in my T-bird and we go check out the Nautilus?

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: WyoWoman
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 10:46 PM

Still, there's a great deal to be said for taking it slowly and working up to intimacy, if that's what you want. (Or collapsing on top of each other in a frenzied heap going at it like Little Bunny Foo-foo, if you're more in that mood ...) But what's icky and unsensual these days is the quest for quickly "closing the deal" or moving on.

And I don't know that taking things slowly and building up a good head of steam, so to speak, is equivalent to sexual gamesmanship. It's more in the nature of walking down a path you don't know well rather than dashing headlong into unfamiliar territory, assuming because you've done It before, you've done It with This Someone. It's always different, or ought to be. Otherwise we're not dealing with individuals, but with some projection of what's going on inside our own heads. (The larger ones, on top.)

ww

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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Metchosin
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 10:00 PM

A date Spaw? Anytime.........the dance wasn't just on the floor.....

Peter T. Yup, your right too, but as the Animals eventually said "Pain, more pain, but I laughed much louder then.......


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 06:57 PM

What a Tragedy.

..........sorry, had to be said...........

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 06:54 PM

Re: Tragedy.Wayne, Thomas

b. Thomas Wayne Perkins, 22 July 1940, Battsville, Mississippi, USA, d. 15 August 1971, Tennessee, USA. Wayne was a classic one-hit artist, the younger brother of Luther Perkins, the guitarist who developed and first played the trademark two-string guitar style behind Johnny Cash. Wayne attended Humes High School in Memphis, where a few years earlier the young Elvis Presley had come and gone with little fanfare. There Wayne formed a group called the De-Lons, which was recorded by Scotty Moore, guitarist for Presley, for the Fernwood Records label, which Moore co-owned. That first single did nothing, but Wayne's second single for Fernwood, a weepy ballad titled "Tragedy", made it to number 5 in the US national chart. The song had renewed life in 1961 as a hit for the Fleetwoods. Wayne recorded for other labels but was unable to follow that hit, although Presley recorded a song he had written, "The Girl Next Door Went A Walking", in 1960. Wayne eventually moved into production work, but his life was tragically cut short when he was killed in a car collision near Memphis in 1971.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Peter T.
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 05:49 PM

My last was posted in reply to CP's.
yours, Peter T.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Peter T.
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 05:40 PM

Yes. And I apologise for dumping on what was actually a fun thread. As you say, sometimes things just hit an old nerve, and bring bad memories. She went on to be fairly happy, and is now a grandmother, I hear. So we go on.
yours, Peter T.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: domenico
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 05:37 PM

what does this site have against brackets???!!!!

Sheesh, a guy can't even post a good "" around here...

To the confused, the title of that last rant was:

"...bemoaning the state of Art Schools today"


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: domenico
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 05:34 PM

...my god, we would do our work, sniff our toxic fumes emanating from our projects, smoke a LOT of grass, dose every available Friday night, screw like bunnies, all while bemoaning our tuitions and the realization that a BFA was a very expensive wall-hanger...most of us dropped out, and are making our way in the arts, or not, but it didn't matter, we were *Artists*, man... :)

Schooling: CalArts California College of Arts and Crafts San Francisco art Institute

Results: 220 transferable Units in Electives No degree Lucrative career in Silicon Valley House Wife 5 cats piles and piles of artwork collecting dust in garage New Hobby: RenFaire (integrating Theater/Dance/Music/Crafts/Costuming/Set Design)

Yeah, I'm happy....

Mbo, do whatever the hell you want... :)


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 05:24 PM

How about a date Sins?

Peter, your point is well taken and I would agree that there was and often still is, a sad and tragic side to the whole thing. This place has such an odd effect on us all doesn't it? It only takes a few words to trigger a graphic memory and in this case mine took a different direction than yours, one to a happier and more innocent memory of a time I can never recapture but wouldn't trade. In a different mood, I may well have gone in your direction.

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 05:10 PM

Uh, guys? You finished yet?
I have a 45RPM of Thomas Wayne doing "Tragedy". I'll have to dig it out and see the date. Maybe we're both right.

Spaw, leave Mbo alone. And Mbo, if you want Spaw to leave you alone, stop feeding him (and Kendall) lines begging to be answered. All this talk about adolescent sex and petting...just how the hell am I supposed to sleep tonight? Add to it Sophocleese with ostriches and Charlton Heston. OH OH TRAGEDY. BOOONNGGG!


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Peter T.
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 04:37 PM

I keep in my mind the picture of a dear girl friend of mine (not sexually), a 15 year old out in our local hiding place, puking from morning sickness, trying to decide if she is going to kill herself, wondering how to find some backstreet abortion, too terrified to tell her parents, and haunted by how much longer she was going to be able to keep on the school swimming team before it got obvious. The year: 1962. The reason: not well liked, and thought "putting out" would get some respect from the high school senior guys. And knew nothing about her own body. Oh, the dance of romance, the glorious vicious early 60's. (I am not saying this kind of thing has stopped, but some parts have changed in a few places, like the abortion part, thank god). Much of the rest is "guy talk" about playing sexual "chicken" in that era -- and I speak as a confirmed romantic.

yours, Peter T.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Mbo
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 03:33 PM

Here's what I discovered today...clean your glass, don't over-agitate, and black does not reflect light!


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 03:28 PM

Beautiful Bart.....Just perfectly said!!!

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Jim the Bart
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 03:15 PM

And then?. . .And then?. . .

Spaw - where were you when I really needed this information? Like last week. At least it seems like last week. . .

Thanks also for including the real lesson, at least implicitly, by stopping where you did. A gentlemen never tells all. You have to leave something to the imagination.

Phewie on both Peter and Mbo. I agree with the master flatulater on this one. It's not about being a playuh. It's all about the dance of romance. It's not about conquest or subjective moral issues. It's about experiencing the beat of the heart. It's about tactile sensations. It's about pharamones, Jones. It's about finding out for yourself what's going on (that's Marvin Gaye you hear, singing softly in the background). Remember, Matt, my friend: What profits one to gain the world if you end up a dull boy, Jack. So as much as I will admire your initiative and hard work, don't forget to smell the roses, Moses. The age of discovery goes by much too quickly. And once it goes, it's gone. Someday you will be sitting there, rewinding your life experiences and running them once again across your minds eye. And it won't be an art class you choose to linger on. Some lessons you learn, some you absorb, some become you.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 03:13 PM

Yeah, right....Keep up the good work....nobody else ever had it like you..........right.....blah, blah........hopeless.

Hey PT.....I think we may have found another area where we disagree a bit! I know what you mean, but I see it differently.

How about a date Mets?

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Peter T.
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 02:39 PM

But what of art and beauty? (just joking, Mbo, keep up the good work).

yours, Peter T.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Mbo
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 02:24 PM

Like my favorite Kinks song says "I'm NOT like everybody else." Yeah right, Spaw. I'm trying to build a career here. Oh, maybe YOU'D like to come down HERE, pay for my plane ticket so I can go kiss the one I want to kiss, while YOU can do all my homework, and they'd damn sure better be A's. And I wasn't lying about this place. ECU School of Art is the best art school in the state. Only slackers and playuhs spend more time doing the nasty than getting good grades. This isn't highschool anymore, this is the big time, and we work ten times harder than we actually would if we had a job. Get real, I've got work to do. I have neither the time nor the desire to go around feeling up girls in cars. Or anywhere else for that matter. And if that makes me a WIMP then so be it. "I don't want to live my life like everybody else, because I'm NOT like everybody else."


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Peter T.
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 02:14 PM

I thought at that age, and still think, that the rules and rituals of making out in that period were hideous and degrading; saturated with fear of loss of virtue, pregnancy, reputation, and grim with hypocrisy. It was not a happy game for many. I look back on it with no nostalgia at all. I was using "making out" in its more generic sense.

I am still concerned about the future of art schools. It is deeply depressing -- it seems as if art schools have been drifting towards some ridiculous notion that they are there for the job market.

yours, Peter T.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Peg
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 02:13 PM

hmm, thanks for the erotica interlude, 'spaw. There is nothing like a good necking session. Kissing for a long time with someone who really knows what they're doing is the most fun there is (well, next to playing traditional music, I guess).

Not to be picky, but I think the actual rhythm/words of that riff for Come Softly darling goes, ahem, like THIS:

Down, DOWN, down-doo-bee-DOWN-bee-doo-bee-doo,
Down, DOWN, down-doo-bee-DOWN-bee-doo-bee-doo etc. (in the correct descedning emoldy of course...I will not be able to get this out of my head.

And the first similar song I thought of when I started reading this thread was "Come and Go With Me".


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Metchosin
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 02:01 PM

Spaw! you've brought tears to my eyes and..............well, lets keep that bit under wraps 50's, 60's style.

Mbo, forget all about that mocho sh*t and learn how to ....Dance! Not as a means to an end, but an end in itself and the rest will come. Nobody melts a woman's heart like a good slow dancer, even today, according to my daughters.

The wonderful thing about slow dancin' at the Sock Hop then, was you could try it out with no strings attached, under the teacher's eagle eye and if you clicked with your partner, Wow! young heart yearning , breath short and butterflies in your tummy.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 12:51 PM

Meebo, do you post this stuff just to get a reaction or is it true? I'd like to believe the former, but everything tells me its the latter. The art of making out is probably about lost in today's world, but I imagine there are still a few practioners around. There is nothing quite like it and, I hesitate to say this, for me, sex was anticlimactic.

Gawd......I hate being this old. The 60's may have changed many of the customs, but those of us who were there then know it didn't happen overnight. We were the offspring of reasonably straight parents and had grown up with Ozzie and Harriet sleeping in twin beds after Ricky came home from the malt shop. For a lot of us, the early sexual conquests were far more closely allied to the 40's and 50's then with the changing world we lived in. Do you remember? Wasn't it great?

Making out..........whether it was in the den, the woods, or a car, it was always something special. Guys went into it with a game plan. There was a certain progression to be followed and if you strayed outside the lines you were either a jerk or a tramp. Holding hands, that tentative arm around her shoulders.....did she move a little closer? Then you lightly stroked an arm, gave a gentle squeeze. If you got this far on a first date, well that was about right. If it had gone well, you stood at the door and waited making idle little chit chat and looking into each other's eyes. A slight touching of the hands led to an embrace and as you pulled your head back, your eyes met and both of you agreed to the kiss.

Maybe the next time was a dance. The hand holding and such was a bit freer now and those slow dances led to the next phase. At first your bodies didn't touch, but as the evening went on the separation slowly disappeared. You could feel another human being who had a body different from your own and you slowly explored the softness and the curves. If it was a formal dance though, the girl seemed to be more assembled than dressed and you could feel the ridges and hooks and fasteners that seemed to bind her in an iron grip. Yet even that was wonderful and mysterious. The evening ended hopefully with another kiss and embrace, longer this time with some stroking. What a night!

Then there was the car. It didn't have to be a car, but it often was. Everywhere had a place to "park." Maybe you went to dinner or a movie or a football game first, but you ended up out there watching the submarine races. This had to be by mutual consent and it was rarely verbal. It was the guy's lead, but the girl had to agree. Maybe she turned on the radio and asked a question. It wasn't much, but you knew. You repeated all that had come before with more time and passion. The first French kiss was a special moment since you knew that perhaps tonight you would go further yet, stroking her breasts, a hand on the knee. The next time you were there, maybe your hand could explore the wonders inside her blouse and you could brush your hand over the clasp on her bra a few times. Was she willing? Did she lean back against the seat or did she open her back to you? When the moment came, most of us fumbled with those stupid clasps, no piece of male clothing having anything like it. Did she reach around to help? Wow, you really knew then didn't you?

A few dates later you had become comfortable and had begun to stroke her legs and run your hand over those lovely soft curves. Now it was time to try for the big move, her panties. Skirts were wonderful things to the average male although panty hose left something to be desired. With a skirt you could slowly work your way up and down her legs probing a bit more with each stroke until you touched that smooth, silky fabric so alien to the male child. Cotton undrewear could really slow you down a bit at this point. It didn't really matter though, you had reached that which was both most wonderful and most mysterious. You stroked your hand over the fabric and later allowed your fingers slide under the legbands a bit. NOW was the moment of all great truth. It required the girl to understand a move that I believe they must have to practice since its subtlety is so complete. No man in the world can remove a seated girl's panties without her making a slight lifting and twisting movement. Without it, you were stopped.....or a rapist. That movement was a tacit agreement to go on to the next step, not sex yet, just the next step along the path.

Ya' know, breakin' up may be hard to do, but fallin' in love was great. I think of all the times when I went through this in my teenage years and I wonder what it is that you wait for Meebo? There are so many wonderful people out there to be with and so much affection to be shared. "Ms. Right" didn't show up til I was 36 and the whole groping thing changes as an adult to some degree, more open, more honest perhaps. I would never have traded those years before though when everything was exciting and new. It will never be like that again.

Spaw


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Mbo
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 12:48 PM

They must have changed, Peter. Art school now is always being tired and spending long hours doing work. I haven't seen anyone else making out here either.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Peter T.
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 12:20 PM

(1) Mbo, I thought you were an art student. What is happening in the art schools of the nation? What is the point of an art school if you aren't making out all the time? (cf. Rodin, seriatim)

(2) Roger, it is clear that the current system of Doowop notation is far too ambiguous. What is happening in the music schools of the nation? I can only hope that they too are doing what they are supposed to do (cf. Franz Liszt, seriatim).

yours, Peter T.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 11:37 AM

...any one else remember the Johnny Otis Show with "3 Tons of Joy" ?(Three ladies of [very] generous proportions):
"Doo-Wop de dooby dooby, Doo-wop de dooby dooby...Mama, he's making eyes at me...."
Is that how yo'd put it , Pete (your other versions were as I'd do them, except you'd be in tune!)
RtS (I may be pedantic but that doesn't mean I'm right)


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 10:32 AM

I don't have any "make-out" music cuz I've never made out. Though I do have music I like for thunderstorms, driving on a sunny day, driving on a cloudy day, feeling pumped, when I ache, and even music for 4pm in the afternoon on certain sunny Autumn days.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Noreen
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 08:34 AM

No, Catrin, that was bum diddy bum diddy bum diddy bum diddy bum diddy bum diddy BUM BUM BUM!!! (Sophia Loren?)

Peter, I agree- we're desperately in need of some standards here! :0)

And the *sigh* was in the past tense, Catrin. My friends were all in love with Donny Osmond, so it could have been worse....

Noreen


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Robby
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 07:46 AM

Thank, Metchosin. It's nice knowing that after 40+ years I havien't completely lost my marbles. I sure remember making out. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I also remember necking and petting. Ah, the memories, but that's another Cat's story.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Catrin
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 07:31 AM

Noreen - I can't believe your *sigh*ing over David Cassidy - I thought you had taste woman!

For what it's worth, dum diddys etc. always make me think of that ridiculous love scene with Peter Sellers and watsername - 'it goes dum diddy dum diddy dum diddy dum diddy dum diddy dum diddy DUM DUM DUM'


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Noreen
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 04:05 AM

WW, Metchosin- we called them 'slowies'! Don't they do slowies any more? Shock horror!

Noreen


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Metchosin
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 03:08 AM

Well you can copy and paste your way to it. http://www.cybersunday.net/music/


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Metchosin
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 03:05 AM

oops! now its forbidden fruit.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Metchosin
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 03:03 AM

Sinsull and Robby, of course The Fleetwoods did Tragedy, I have it here on my vinyl collection and you can also listen to it here The group was one of my favorites and that song can still put a lump of nostalgia in my throat after forty years.....forty years?........ Oh jeez!

WyoWoman, we called them "gropes". They don't seem to do that anymore do they?....... Too bad......so little romance.....


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: WyoWoman
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 12:33 AM

Here's how old *I* am: We used to have "makeout" music. Remember makeout music? I don't want to start an entire thread because my reputation already preceeds me, but ... wasn't that just the best? Slow dancing to "Town without Pity" (my sister's records, honestly. My OLDER sister ...) or the Righteous Brothers. Johnny Mathis (my sister's records, I'm tellin' ya) is still the best ...

Lots of dum-dum doobie-doo's in makeout music....

ww


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Peter T.
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 08:49 PM

Strange that no one ever developed a consistent vocabulary for these. When I think of "Only The Lonely", I go: "Dum, dum, dum, dum de doo wah" which is different than others would vocalize it. My version of Breaking Up Is Hard to Do is nothing like Big Mick's ("down's" surely, not "dumms"). Where is the International DooWop Standards Bureau????
yours, Peter T.


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: Noreen
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 07:46 AM

campfire, I remember the Partridge Family doo-bee-doing it (with the lovely David Cassidy *sigh*).

The original request made me think of 'Only the Lonely' too- picture it, Peter and Rick, all around the world there are people 'dum-dum-dum-doo-be-doo'-ing because of you?!

LOL

Noreen


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 01:51 AM

Jeri, do you remember what channel you saw the composer movie on? Might be able to backtrack in the schedules and find out the name of it. Sounds like something that would be on IFC (independent film channel.)

BTW, ya'll are way too old. I don't remember half of the songs ya'll are saying were so popular. Sheesh, what a bunch of old farts!**BG**

katthekid


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Subject: RE: Here's a tough one, 'Catters!
From: WyoWoman
Date: 27 Sep 00 - 01:29 AM

Well, yes, but Peter T. does those dum dum doobee doobee wahs in a really articulate way ...

ww


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