Posts Tagged ‘Tommy James & The Shondells’
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Song Of The Day: Tommy James & The Shondells: “Crystal Blue Persuasion.”
3March 18, 2010 by Citizen192
Randy Newman’s “I Love LA” reminds me of “blond bombshells”, neon swimsuits and aerosol cans filled with hairspray. It’s not the Los Angeles I identify with, in the 80′s or now. But every time I hear Tommy James & The Shondells singing “Crystal Blue Persuasion”, I drift to a Los Angeles filled with laughing abuelitas, carne asada sharing the grille with bacon-wrapped hot dogs, up-to-no-good cousins, a 1955 Chevy Belair surrounded by grown men contemplating the next fix, playing catch in the front yard and, of course, drinking a Tecate out of a can. I have four days left in
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