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"Feelings...Nothing more than feelings..."
Some hit records have a long tail before we consider them lost.
I planned to have this blog only go back to the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976, since that's about how far back I might remember when a song was new. I wouldn't have been old enough to care, but I might remember it. But it's been suggested that I include this earlier ballad by Brazilian singer Morris Albert.
You never, ever hear this song anymore. But it took many years for people to stop talking about it.
Many, many years after the song was a hit, I was a high school junior. There was a student in my class who always acted up. He threw puzzle pieces across the room and yelled, "It's raining puzzles!" When the school took us on a walking tour to see holiday decorations in a department store, this student thought a customer was a mannequin, so he slapped him on the back and said, "Hey, look at this dummy!" He once taped his own mouth shut with "Support Our Troops" stickers.
He entertained me.
He acted just as hilarious on the school bus. The bus driver and monitor were two aging women who didn't exactly have enlightened views on matters of public interest. Someone once discarded a torn, shit-stained pair of underpants on the school bus, and the aforementioned student declared, "Inspector 12 is gonna be mad!" He also still had Morris mania 15 years after "Feelings" was on the chart.
We were on the bus one day, when he got a big, silly grin on his face and begin singing "Feelings" with new lyrics. "Poo-poo...Nothing more than poo-poo," he sang. The bus monitor and driver were absolutely furious!
Come to think of it, how can there be anything more than poo-poo? The mere existence of poo-poo should be enough.
But that was it for "Feelings."
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