Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<I'll beg to differ -- LOL !! She looks really good to me....>> Really. That was the beauty of the era. Women didn't wear bras unless they were 50 years old or 48DD. I remember the first time I stuck my hand up a young lady's shirt and ran into a bra. Crap. It freaked me out. I thought she was into bondage or something. Well, more or less.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling You old perverts. LOL! So edumacate me. Who is "Sloopy"? What kinda name is that anyway? Was that a popular name back then? Is that a secret nickname for her free flyin' girls?
Originally Posted By chickendumpling I found this article called "Who is Sloopy and What Is She Hanging Onto?" Here you go: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6d9wlc" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/6d9wlc</a> "“Hang On Sloopy” was a No. 1 hit record for The McCoys in 1965. Who? “They were really a kind of a one-hit wonder,’’ said Meredith Rutledge, assistant curator of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. But then the Ohio State band began to play a brass, instrumental arrangement of the song that very autumn at Buckeyes’ football games in Columbus. The song caught on with the fans, who sang along with the “Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on’’ chorus. Twenty years later, the General Assembly of Ohio formally resolved that “Hang on Sloopy’’ would from then on and forever into eternity be “The Official Rock Song of the State of Ohio.’’ “Whereas,’’ the legislators declared, “`Hang on Sloopy’ is of particular relevance to members of the Baby Boom Generation . . . ‘’ It’s a short song about a young man’s love for a young woman from different socioeconomic circumstances. Hey, it was the 1960s; like everything then, it had meaning. Now, in the year 2007, “Sloopy” is often heard at Jacobs Field in Cleveland during Indians’ games. The fans love it and have taken to chanting the letters “O! H! I! O!’’ in cadence to the chorus." Fascinating. But I still don't know who Sloopy is and what she's hanging on to.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling No kidding villains? That's too funny. I have never ever heard of anyone actually named Sloopy. Except in that song. And I even know a woman named Ziggy. No kidding.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains I would say my sister was 4 when she started with Sloopy so that would have been in 73 until about 78 or so.. Funny I can't remember her last name - but I can remember the gym and about where it was...
Originally Posted By Big Thunder very cool find Road Trip, loved the walk down memory lane, I was just a kid when this song was all over the AM teeny bopper stations and it was a favorite of mine too. Dave wrote: "Also note that their 16-year-old leader, Rick Zehringer, went on to became known as Rick Derringer" Wow I never knew that! A friend of mine was a booking agent for Derringer and a few other bands in the 70's I cant wait to share that trivia with him [which he probably already knows, but at least I can pretend I am in the know for a minute] VBdad, I also appreciate the young Rascals clip links, when I think of the the hang On Sloopy era I also think of the Young Rascals which were big faves of mine in the mid sixties Other groups from that era included... Tommy James & the Shondels 3 Dog Night The Lovin Spponfull The Grass Roots and more here's one of my faves from when I was in 3rd grade... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQYeifj_31E" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...eifj_31E</a>
