Immature Female

 Song 790: This week the playlist comes around to Young Girl by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, written by Jerry Fuller, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. Back when spring showed up during my junior HS year in 1968, a quintet who identified themselves as a modern musical version of the northern soldiers from the U.S. Civil War era got a bunch of us teenagers singing along with their anthem about the need to end a romantic exchange. For most of my school years growing up, I enjoyed learning about the history of that 1860s conflict and so the Gap's outfits appealed to me. I also liked joining their initial chorus lines, but back then, I often didn't understand many of a song's additional lyrics, and so I didn't really realize that the singer was in fact admitting, as an adult male, to having unknowingly molested an attractive underage feminine charmer who had kept the secret of her youth from his realization.

Questioning Amorous Timing

Song 789: This week the playlist applauds When Will I Be Loved by Linda Ronstadt, written by Phil Everly, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. Ms. Linda had in the early chilly months of 1975 explained to us about our lack of value, and then, just as the warmer months began to arrive, she started asking about when she would receive some proper affection. I lived in the Windy City area at the time, and I always felt relieved when the temperatures began to rise in late March. Spending a lot of time behind the wheel, I regularly got to hear her question mark coming out of the car speakers and I often echoed her queries. I had had a brief romantic exchange four years earlier with a bipolar young woman, and misunderstanding that energy dynamic in my early adult years, I endlessly searched for another lover who could make me feel the same way. Without meaning to do so, I mistreated and made blue a few, but I never cheated, lied to, put down or pushed 'round any of those attractive young women.

I’m Unconcerned

 Song 788: This week on the playlist you can hear It Don't Matter to Me by Bread, written by David Gates, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. At the end of the summer break that followed my freshman year at Northwestern University, around this time 55 years ago, the radio began sharing the sound of a tasty quartet expressing their indifference to a certain other person's actions and it didn't take long to sing along with that disregard. The college only provided residence for first-year pupils, so at the time I had to move into an Evanston apartment a short distance from the campus and I shared an affordable place with a few fellow students. However, I did not have an empty room waiting for me in that place because I had to split my bedroom with another guy. Back then, I didn't know if time was on my side, but I did feel fortunate that at least I had gotten an economical place to reside in the college town.

Your Genuine Possession

 Song 787: This week the playlist recognizes You Really Got Me by The Kinks, written by Ray Davies, and you can find a cool YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. The Fab Four Got Me in February of 1964 and in the next few following months, a bunch of their British Invader colleagues did as well. Near the end of that subsequent summer, as I got close to the beginning of my eighth-grade year, a quartet of Kinks started letting us know about how an attractive female had acquired them, and it didn't take long to learn the lines and sing along with that retaining anthem. Back then, sometimes I couldn't sleep at night for a little bit because I shared a bedroom with my older brother and he often snored, but fortunately he usually didn't keep me awake that long. At that time, I did always wanna be by the side of a special young girl my age, and she really got me going, but we never did actually embrace, and her family left our region at a certain point, so I'll probably never know if she had really wanted to be by my side.