Comments on: Baby I’m a-laughing

By: Western Dave

Western Dave — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:05:55 +0000

@Indyanna I did twenty minuntes on Jefferson Airplane in my 60s class last year. With a special emphasis on the Volunteers album and the controversy around “We should be together” and then paired it with the Ballad of the Green Berets. So it was relatively fresh in my mind.

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:11:39 +0000

@ Western Dave: Oh, I get it. Volunteers of America. Up against the wall…. Running a little slow these days, the moreso each decade we go back. I didn’t even get a riff off my own joke.

By: undine

undine — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:36:04 +0000

Did not get the joke or even know the band that sang this song, although once I clicked on your link it came back to me as a strongly repressed memory filed under “Bad Music of the 1970s.”

Every time I see “Gates” something in a headline, my first reaction is “Bill? Bill Gates is going to donate his fortune to get us out of this mess?”

By: Janice

Janice — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:53:16 +0000

Hey, kiddo, watch it! I was nine in ’72. I even owned a cassette of their greatest hits. (Not an 8-track, sorry to say.)

But, yeah, I snorted at the joke!

By: Feminist Avatar

Feminist Avatar — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:26:33 +0000

For me Bread is this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/bread/

By: Western Dave

Western Dave — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:37:12 +0000

@Indyanna Way to put Historiann’s back against the wall. That said, we can be together on this Bread thing.

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:06:55 +0000

@LadyProf. Yeah, In noticed that one of the comments under the Youtube itself says something of the same thing about the last point, in a bit courser language.

By: LadyProf

LadyProf — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:59:03 +0000

Although it too is annoying, “Diary” has some redeeming value. Words + tune = treacle, and historians here can probably confirm that no diary has ever been found “underneath a tree,” the better to rhyme with “meeee.” But after all those song lyrics extolling violent jealousy, I give Gates a couple of points for saying that the woman he’d been with is not his property.

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:39:31 +0000

p.s. Maybe you know a good “Volunteers of America” joke?

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:38:44 +0000

We were ALL three that year, Historiann, and the whole world was an elevator. I’m almost getting nostalgic for hating on it, and hoping for a Jefferson Airplane reunion tour. Back then, I mean.