Mama Kat Thursday: Lime In The Coconut
The Mama Kat blog prompt for today is: "Share a favorite song from when you were 16 yrs old...and is it still a favorite?" Wow, that takes me back---all the way to 1972! That's when I was 16. The world was still reeling with Flower Children and Vietnam. Everyone, guys and girls, in high school wore shoulder-length hair parted down the middle. Teachers were being busted for pot. We only had 3 television channels to choose from and Princess phones were the "in" thing because they had push-buttons instead of a rotary dial. Turbulent times, those days. That's about the time I started listening to the radio. I can't say any one piece of music was ever my favorite, though one had to hear whatever was popularover and over and over on the school bus all the way to school, then back again. They tended to stick in your head, but generally not for 42 years--with the exception of one that's still with me: that song "Lime in The Coconut...