The back cover copy (by “Gemini,” of course, because it was 1968) explains the album’s concept: live on on side, studio on the other. I spent endless hours hanging at his house, listening to records, riding bikes together, messing around with chemistry sets (nearly setting his house on fire, but that was just the one time) – all the stupid stuff pre-teen boys get into. we were fixated on Mad Magazine, we spent hours listening to George Carlin together, I’m sure we had the same tastes in television. I was good friends with a kid named John who was in the class below me. My school had split-grade classes, so my fifth-grade class also had fourth-graders in it, my sixth had fifths. I was 10 or 11, the summer after either 5th grade or 6th. I used to know exactly when this happened now it’s not so clear. It was a big hit in 1968, but I associate it with a summer idyll a couple of years later. Though I appreciate the effort a composite took in 1968! And no, I don’t know who put a 2 in a circle, but that’s certainly not what I paid for it.Įveryone knows “Build Me Up Buttercup.” Everyone loves “Build Me Up Buttercup.” It’s a fantastic, good-time pop love song. I know this is supposed to be all hippie-dippy and flowerchild and love and all, but somehow, it’s creepy. And it’s going to be perhaps the earliest story from my life that I’ve told regarding any of these records. This one is going to be more about one song (yes, that song) than it is about the album.
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