His hat. Her hair. These lyrics.
Can someone please explain to me WHY??? And HOW? How in THE world did it make it to #4 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart and spend four weeks topping adult contemporary?!
I can’t embed it, but really, truly…you NEED to click this link and travel back to 1976 with me.
Unless you can enlighten me (and I hope you can), it’s a mystery for the ages.
What song do you think we’ll be scratching our heads over 30 years from now?
Thanks to the Captain & Tennille’s website for this hilarious Zits comic strip! I love how they can laugh at themselves…:)
I am going to be optimistic and say we’ll be scratching our heads over nearly every pop song that’s come out in the last 10 years. Have you listened to the lyrics lately? One phrase repeated over and over with a lot of tech effects. I tease my mom mercilessly over “Muskrat Love,” BTW.
there is certainly no accounting for taste, especially in popular music lately. I recently read an interview with Paul Simon, who said something to the effect of “you can have a great song, and a decent track (recording, rendition) and not get far, but a decent song and a great track will be a hit.” in short: style over substance.
Maybe my band should cover that song? We could slip it into the set list between Born To Be Wild and Free Bird.
Nah.
Good grief!! I guess the passage of time dulls the memory of such nonsense. You’re right, this totally defies explanation.
And the hair? My sister had that do.
And why was he such a silent captain? And how did she get so many perfectly straight teeth? A trip to the Osmond compound?
But now you know the secret for your marriage, right? Love will keep you together. And if you sing and jingle a jangle, you can float like the heavens in your own happy little muskrat love marriage! LOL!!! 😀
Thanks for that strange little blast from the past!
I love, love Zits! It’s the one I read first each day.
Dear robin. We’ll be scratching out heads over Paris hilton of course!
Heather, you’re probably right (and sadly so!).
Bobw, spot on.
Carol, I’m trying to picture your cover of Freebird. Ohhh, that’s delish!
Dianne, oh, my…you are on a roll, girlieQ! Thanks for the SMILES!
Daisy, my kids and I are BIG fans–we have tons of their anthologies.
Dear Little Miss Moi, yes…she absolutely defies explanation…s i g h.
Thanks for the link to the, um, music video. Boy, that took me back to Mill Creek East Elementary field day, when we were allowed to wear shorts and bring our transistor radios and hang outside running sprints and playing games all afternoon in the spring sunshine. I remember those radios blaring “Muskrat Love” among other explanation-defying ’70s hits popular among the 12 and under crowd. It all seems so innocent….