My friend jack eats sugarlumps
The Smoke “My Friend Jack” An EP on Impact records (1967 – French)
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“Sweet Caroline” Neil Diamond Uni Records (shown here with a very special spindle girl – my sweet Caroline!)
Officially released on September 16, 1969, Neil only recently revealed that he wrote this after seeing a Life magazine photo of Caroline Kennedy riding a pony in the mid-sixties. But every Caroline owns it. The song has been a tradition at Boston’s Fenway Park since 1997, and since 2002 it has been played at every game in the middle of the eighth inning. Elvis liked to sing it.
Sweet Caroline
Good times never seemed so good
I’ve been inclined
To believe they never would
The Adventures of Babar the Elephant Philips France As I imagine many of my generation do, I remember Babar well from those first oversized books I read and reread as a young boy. Like Bambi, it begins with his mother getting shot and killed by hunters. Pretty heavy. I should go back and read it again.
The Rolling Stones “Jumping Jack Flash” (released originally in May 1968 b/w “Street Fighting Man”) and “Honky Tonk Women” (released originally in July 1969 b/w “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”) Decca Records
One picture has the band with Brian Jones and the other with Mick Taylor. Taylor, who at 17 had replaced Eric Clapton in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, joined the Stones in June, 1969. Jones died in July, a month later. Though Brian was at the recording of “Honky Tonk Women” in early ’69, by the time it was released he was out of the band and replaced by 20-year old Taylor whose guitar work was overdubbed for the release of the single. Mick Taylor was with the Stones until he left the group in December of 1974, to be replaced by Ron Wood. Many would say that the Mick Taylor years were the band’s greatest period.