7-songs popular the year I turned six #music
Welcome to Monday’s Mewsic Moves Me on Sunday!
This month’s honorary co-hostess 
ℳ𝒶𝓇𝓎 from Jingle, Jangle, Jungle has done an excellent job. Bravo to you, girlfriend! 👏 We hope you’ll want to take the spotlight at a future date. Rounding out September, we’re closing the month with her final request, to build a playlist of songs popular when you were in the first grade or the year you turned six.
Being a December baby, the year I turned six was 1967. I probably didn’t start grade one until the fall of ’68. That was a lot of years ago. To draw inspiration for song choices, I built my playlist using songs on Music Outfitters. From the list of 100 tunes, I grabbed seven titles that resonated with me emotionally. I don’t have any particular memories tied to any of these songs but rang the loudest in my head when I read through the song titles. Are you ready to dance? 💃🕺
- Windy ~The Association
- I’m a Believer ~The Monkees
- Georgy Girl ~The Seekers
- 98.6 ~Keith
- Snoopy VS The Red Baron ~The Royal Guardsman
- Ode To Billie Joe ~Bobbie Gentry
- The Letter ~The Box Tops
How old were you in 1967? What is your favorite song from this year?
Please read…this is a mewsic linky party, which means all participates are sharing songs that one can listen to from YouTube or Vimeo and a not a post about mewsic or mewsicians. Failure to meet this basic guideline puts your URL in danger of being removed or labeled – NO MUSIC.
Next Monday ‘your choice song picks’, we have a first-time honorary co-hostess, Robin from Songbird’s Crazy World and I hope you will return to boogie with the 4M crew. It’s time to hit the dance floor!
Keep those tunes playing, your body swaying, and I’ll be boogieing over to see you soon. Have a sparkletastic day! 😉
X💋X💋, Cathy
45 Comments
Stacy Uncorked
I remember my mom being a fan of The Monkees – great set, Cathy! Fun to boogie to! 🙂
Cathy Kennedy
Stacy,
I recall you telling me that your mom was a Monkees fan. Don’t tell her I got a chance to see Davy Jones in concert in the 80s or she might flip out. lol That was a lot of fun to see him and some other great oldies performing.
Michael Todd
Great Play List, Cathy… Thanks!
Cathy Kennedy
Thanks, Myke! So glad you came by for a little boogie session. 🙂
Kathe W.
up to no good…that’s for sure! Have a great week!
Cathy Kennedy
Kathe,
That kitten is too cute to be up to no good which makes the caption all the funnier. 🙂
songbird1329
I was 7 in ‘67. Love your playlist. I’m still a Monkees fan.
Cathy Kennedy
Robin,
I think everyone at this party loves the Monkees! Thanks for boogieing with me. 😉
Marie Moody
HOLY COW CATHY….!!! I have to say out of all your tunes I like the Ode to Billy Joe & The Letter…… and of course Snoopy!!! Those are some great tunes to say the least. Did you see all the wonderful songs people posted today? That surely was a fun project/theme wasn’t it? I enjoyed it. Anyway, great job girlfriend, but I’ve been sitting a long time have to get up and move around to say the least. I think I have one or two more gals left. BIG HUGS and thanks for dancin’ with this ol’ broad!!! hahaha Love ya girl and you DEFINITELY ROCKED THE HOUSE TODAY!
Cathy Kennedy
Marie,
I find that anytime I go back into time to look at and listen to old mewsic then it’s not a lot of fun but it sparks some good memories. Thanks for joining me on the dance floor, darlin’!
messymimi's meanderings
In ’67 i was 4 years old, and i loved that Snoopy and the Red Baron song. They had a few follow up songs, including one where Snoopy and the Red Baron were racing to see who would get to the moon first.
Cathy Kennedy
Mimi,
There were follow-up songs to Snoopy and the Red Baron? I didn’t know this, now I’ve gotta find them. 🙂
Kim @ Storms and Stardust
Cathy, and other dancers: I know this is annoying, but I am going to put a test link in here so that I can screenshot the error I am getting so that Brent from LinkyTools can try to figure my issue out. I am sorry for the mess!
Cathy Kennedy
Kim,
Go ahead, knock yourself out! It won’t bother me in the least. 🙂 I know it can be aggravating when you’re doing what seems right but you hit a wall. Hopefully, Brent can tell you want the deal is.
Kim @ Storms and Stardust
Unfortunately, I think the problem is with my Macbook. It could possibly be the blog, too, but I have disabled every plugin and gone through every setting, and there is nothing different in the settings than when I last successfully used Linky. But I get a weird message when trying to upload from file. I can get it to work on my iPhone, so that is probably what I’ll have to do until I can figure this out, or replace the computer. The Apple forums have zero info about the message I’m getting. You are correct, it is VERY frustrating. Thanks for all your help!
mjgolch
Great tumes,thanks for playing along.i went back to 1928 for my tunes/first grade.😂
Sandee
As I type Windy is playing. I loved that song and still do. Awesome and your playlist is spot on.
Awww on that kitty. So cute and they never get in trouble. Bawahahahahahaha.
Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. Love and hugs my friend. ♥
Natasha
Nice music, Cathy. I linked up with a piece of fiction, erm non-fiction that has some music. :))
I was born in 1972, but I love the swinging sixties. <3
Big hugs xoxox
https://natashamusing.com/2019/09/the-show-must-go-on-friday-fictioneers-natasha-musing/
csuhpat1
I was not born in 1967. I enjoyed all of your picks.
DrillerAA
I am actually surprised that I recognized any of these songs. I was in Vietnam in 1967, and musically it was a lost yer for me. However, with the exception of 98.6, they all bring back memories of great music and simpler, if not somewhat divisive, times in this country. The Letter is probably my favorite from this group, but the Monkees broke the boy band mold with I’m A Believer. The Association single handedly gave us the “soft rock” genre. Nice set of tunes to begin the week.
angelswhisper2011
Those were the days, huh, CK? We love almost all the music of ’67. Granny was a little older then and these songs are still in her memory. Pawsome! Pawkisses for a Happy Monday and I hope I can hop along everyone later as Granny promised😸🐾😽💞
Kinga K.
I know 3 of them ❤
Cathy Kennedy
Thanks for stopping by to boogie with me, Kinga! Have a songsational week. 🙂
Mary B
Hiyas Cathy!
Stopping by for Mondays on Sundays 🙂 In 1967 I was 2. I loved each of these songs, but I do recall Georgie Girl being one of my favorites. Thanks for playing along this week. I had a lot of fun picking the themes this month. Maybe I’ll have to come up with more ideas for another month.
~Mary
Cathy Kennedy
Mary,
It’s been a blast having you onboard this month. You came up with some great themes and yes, please think about being honorary co-hostess again anytime. 🙂
15andmeowing
I have only heard of #’s 2 and 3. Sorry I am sitting out yet another music hop. Have a great week! XO
Cathy Kennedy
Ellen,
No worries. Just come by to boogie with me anytime, even if you don’t have a mewsic post. I love that you play along with me. 😉
Kim @ Storms and Stardust
I LOVE I’m A Believer and Ode To Billie Joe! As for me, I wasn’t yet born in 1967 – but there was some fantastic music back then!
Here’s my link, in case I have lanky issues again (I have tried manually uploading like you suggested, and still couldn’t get it to work for me, so I am all out of ideas at this point ::sadface::)
Cathy Kennedy
Kim,
I see that you linked up but your image doesn’t show. Unfortunately, I can’t fix that. Do you know what size your image is that you trying to upload to the Linky Tools? I know it can’t be larger than 2MB. I’m sorry for the trouble. Thanks for dancing with me, though!
John Holton
I owned most of these 45’s and played the grooves off of all of them. ’67 was the year Dad died, and music definitely helped me get through the year.
Cathy Kennedy
John,
Ahh, I’m sorry to hear that 1967 was such a sad year for you. Mewsic is a wonderful way of dealing with those low spots in one’s life. Thanks for joining me today, my friend!
John Holton
Shortly after Dad died, we were invited to go on a trip with most of the family. The restaurant at the hotel had a pretty good jukebox, and my brothers and I just played “I’m A Believer” and “I’m Not Your Steppin’ Stone” by The Monkees over and over. It was almost healing: Dad was gone, but we still had The Monkees…
Jacqui Murray
Windy–I can still sing that one! Great memory.
Cathy Kennedy
Jacqui,
I forget the lyrics of most of the tunes I grew up hearing.
-Eugenia
Yikes! I was 22 in 1967! No matter though because I stopped counting at 50! 🤪 Great mewsic, Cathy!
Cathy Kennedy
Eugenia,
My mom was also born in 1945. That’s cool! By the time, she was 25 my brother and she were born. I hadn’t even had my first by that age and couldn’t imagine having one as young (16yo) as she was when I born but it was nice having a young mom. She taught me how to do a cartwheel which I thought was cool. 🙂
-Eugenia
Wow!, your mom was young, which I think that would be cool! My mom was 30 when I was born and young at heart! We were very close and I would teach her the latest dance steps.
Alana Mautone (@RamblinGarden)
I’m a December baby, and I used 1958, which would have been the year I turned six, but it turns out some of the tunes I picked may have been 1957 or 1959….no matter. I got a little carried away. So, in 1967 I turned 15, and your tunes were part of my middle school (then, called Junior HIgh) or high school years. So many good songs from 1967, too many to list, but you hit a couple of my favs – I’m A Believer and Windy (I had both of these albums and probably wore them, and my Dad’s ears, out).
Cathy Kennedy
Alana,
Oh yeah, I forgot we share the same birth month! When I was in school, they called middle school Junior High, too. “I’m A Believer” and “Windy” are huge hits that never got out of style! 🙂
Brian Frum
Those were all good tunes! The Dad was 14 in 1967, dang he’s old!
Cathy Kennedy
Brian,
Old is like a dirty word in my book. Dad is mature. I’ll leave it at that and you can decide if he’s mentally or physically mature. 😀 Thanks for boogieing with me!
Thomas Anderson
Hi, Cathy!
Happy 4M Monday on Sunday, dear friend!
Like you, I have a birthday late in the year. In 1967 when you were age 5 and 6, I was age 17 and 18 and a Dell rat. It was a big year for me, a transitional year. I graduated high school and started college. The songs you picked helped form the soundtrack of my youth. Each one brings back vivid memories.
Whenever I hear “Windy,” I flash back to the two years I worked as a produce clerk in a supermarket. As I bagged potatoes and trimmed endive for the display case, I listened to a radio in the back of the store and kept it tuned to my favorite top 40 station. “Windy” played often. “I’m A Believer” immediately transports me to the Shady Dell where The Monkees’ double-sider (with “Steppin’ Stone” on the B side) became a Jukebox Giant. “Georgy Girl” reminds me of going to see that Lynn Redgrave movie with my cousin Paula, the one I saluted on her 70th birthday back in February. “98.6” was another huge Dell song, a reminder that the dance hall jukebox was undergoing a change in 1967. The West Coast sounds of the counterculture – sunshine pop, psychedelia and hard rock, were coming on strong, embraced by rat packers, and filling jukebox slots once occupied by innocent doo-wop and traditional sweet soul love songs. “Snoopy VS The Red Baron” was another Dell hit, reminding me that the Rodentia Intelligentsia loved listening and dancing to novelty records. Although it was first released in November 1966 and was a chart hit during the 1966 Christmas season, the record returned to the Dell jukebox for the Christmas season of 1967 and was just as popular as the year before. “Ode To Billie Joe” brings back a specific memory of a day I attended the York Interstate Fair. I was resting on a bench in a building that housed domestic fowl and rabbits. It was a hot, dry afternoon. A large fan was blowing my way and the circulating air, although smelly, felt terrific. A nearby radio was turned on and Bobbie Gentry’s hit played during the few minutes I sat there. That pleasant moment stayed with me all these years. I remember “The Letter” as one of the last records to appear in the Dell jukebox before I left town for four years of college and living away from home for the first time. The Box Tops single reached #1 on the chart the same week I arrived to start classes at Penn State.
Thank you for this opportunity to reminisce, dear friend Cathy. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a boogietastic week ahead!
Cathy Kennedy
Tom,
You’re the age of my uncles. I always felt like a younger sister to my uncles and aunts because there aren’t too many years that separate us. Heck, my mom is only 16 years older than me. When I was growing up people often thought we were sisters. Most if not all of these song features are ones that my uncles and aunts played. I don’t ever recall my folks listening to rock mewsic in my early years. The closest they came was when they watched those popular 70s variety shows. I take that back, I do recall my folks playing the radio and sometimes I’d hear some of the popular rock tunes from that era but it wasn’t often, though. I’m delighted my song choices brought back some fond memories of yesteryear spent at the Dell. The 60s was a producer of some great classics for sure! Thank you for taking time to hit the dance floor with me, my friend. I’ll boogie over to see you soon! Have a songsational week!
Debbie D.
Great idea for a theme! I was 12 in 1967 and remember all of these songs. Huge Monkees fan at the time, but starting to get into harder-edged music. That year was the “Summer of Love”, which popularized the “Hippie” concept. 😎
Cathy Kennedy
Debbie,
It’s funny how the once make-believe band we know as the Monkees grew in popularity and doing quite well on the charts. I don’t think there is anyone out there who hasn’t heard of or isn’t a fan of this fun 60s group. The 60s were a wild time. I still recall the shock of many with the’ Summer of Love’ ideology. Nowadays, I think they call that sort of living, Swinging, but wait…wasn’t that a term that came out of the 60s? If I’m not mistaken I recall an episode of Mad Men where the word ‘swinger/swinging’ was used. Thanks for stopping by to boogie with me, darlin’!