Whatever the hell you're on Kevin, get off it! 99.9% of people who listen to this song hear Simple Simon Says as.Simple Simon Says! Only you have made that connection to an hallucinogenic most people never heard of. ![]() Perry from OttawaDear Kevin from Oregon.But I remember that song on her car radio :) But it was kind of cold on that day, early June 1968, and I think she finally gave up. I was in a summer recreation program, and my teacher/coach was driving us around town trying to find a place where we kids could run around and be kids. Kev from Rogers, ArI remember this song from 1968.Ralphm from Sebring FlKevin from Oregon: Get off the stuff NOW! NO one hears that or ever has.except you, who obviously partakes.They were girls and guys our age: 18, 19 years old, 20 years old, who were into the music." (Check out our interview with Floyd Marcus.) We find that out on the road, when we're out on the road, our fans weren't just little kids coming to see us. But I think it caught on with a lot of older people, too. And that was probably the young teenager that was neglected in the industry with all the music that was coming out. So when 'Simon Says' came out, and 'One, Two, Three Red Light' came out, and 'May I Take A Giant Step' came out, there was a market that we were playing for. ![]() I think it was kind of a rebellion, and people wanted a rest from all that. The Beatles had morphed from this pop group into Sergeant Pepper, It was getting heavier out there. There was Jimi Hendrix, there was The Doors, Zeppelin came on the scene around '69. But looking back in retrospect, we feel that its time had come, because people in that five-year period were kind of tired of all the heaviness of music. When these songs were released, especially 'Simon Says' being the first one in '68, a lot of people didn't take to it, feeling it didn't have a lot of substance. But I think a lot of it was that there was so much serious content in the years of the Vietnam War, and all the rebellion that was going on, all the drug culture that was going on. There was so much social commentary in music back then, there was a lot of sexual innuendo. I guess it partially came as a rebellion against the music. Floyd Marcus told us: "There wasn't really a genre at that time. So it wound up on our first Fruitgum Company album." (Check out our interview with Floyd Marcus.At the time, the term "Bubblegum Music" didn't exist. And Jeff Katz and Jerry Kasenetz who were our producers, when they heard a lot of the songs, they liked them, they thought they would fit. I just kind of wrote this song playing with those lyrics. So I really didn't think about whether the song was light or bubblegummy. I point this out to my kids, that there was a pretty diverse terrain of music back then, from about '64 to '69. ![]() It was: "You think you're in a bubblegum world playing in sandboxes, too, I'd just like to tell you, girl, you're too old to think it's true." I was playing on the words a little bit, and there was a pretty wide range, a pretty big spectrum of music in the '60s. We were fans of Hendrix and The Beatles and The Stones, and Cream, and Yardbirds to The Animals. Before the band started, even, we were all fans of heavier music. The 1910 Fruitgum Company was a classic "Bubblegum" band, and had several hits in the late '60s in this style, including "Simon Says" and "Indian Giver." Floyd Marcus explains: "I wrote a lot of different stuff back then.
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