Very sad, thanks for the notice. This Kirkman guy was talent extraordinaire.

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@@M-isty correct

As all humans are mortal and all flautists are human, all flautists are thus mortal. I think it total bs but them the brakes apparently.

Sad to hear 😢

That's so cute. Thanks for sharing the story Mary.

Well, are you Mary and if not, did they marry?

*hey wait a minute*

It’s like those situations where someone’s hinting about an ancient legend only for the viewer to find out that they were a key factor of that legend

@@axjagfilms brilliant storytelling on mary's part, one of the most wholesome things i've read in the comments section lol

They weren't underrated. They just wrote one or two good songs. Overall they were boring.

@@tixximmi1 na underrated

@@rcruz262 Gentle Giant was underrated. The Association got their fame back then.

@@tixximmi1 “Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.”

The Association weren’t underrated, of course not! Great hit this group had!

evocative of time gone by -- from an eternal past to an eternal future.

This is acid generated

The vocalists back then in the 1960s were awesome because Autotune software did not exist. The vocal talent had to stand on its own. Many ostensibly talented modern singers rely on Autotune. I doubt a lot of modern singers could have made it back then.

Just saw them on the Happy Together Tour. There were three performing. It was like looking at a legend.

Tried to tag you in this one before I saw your comment

And i wonder what he would think about today’s society and machinery.

Brian Cole was immensely talented, not only for his humor, but also his creative bass lines and vocals. We lost him far, far too soon.

I was there as a witness..14 years old. This song blew me away!

I like my rock and roll to be 3 guitars and drums, not backed up with 50 piece orchestras. It's about the trip and not the destination.

I was only 11 in 66, but this song blew me away, still does after all these years....!

Brilliant comment.

I'm glad you were there, so you can share what it was like.

yes, they were very accomplished musicians and great vocalists.

@@gerrydooley951 Accomplished? I love these guys (and ones not in the band at this time, but the best) and want to learn more about them than what Google says

the bands in the 60's were hardcore musicians and performers.

The Monterey Pop footage is proof. I was shocked at how great they were.

A lot of the old groups used the Wrecking Crew... Google it.

@Tony Harris this ain't no joke, bloke. This is critique of girls who take little interest in anything but their being.

Actually .... Song is about "pot".... ie.. MaryJane.... " "Now my empty cup is as sweet as the punch" ... Smoke weed.... Don't be a juicer....which the 60-70'80's we're into...

I need a Dramamine just reading it.

@@thomasgarbe8354 Didn't I know some young ladies just like that? I can't vouch for how kindly or effectively I countered those situations. My favorite was my being involved with an older woman, a 9th grader, while I was a lowly 8th grader. We were briefly 'dating' (seeing each other on weekends at the mall, holding hands after school, etc.) and she comes up to me in the hall between classes demanding to know why I was "using" her as she put it. To this day I have no idea what she was referring to. None. She may actually have been troubled as I heard that she died from a drug overdose just after she graduated from high school in '73. I've made a few attempts to run down the truth of the matter over the years without any results. This girl was _very_ pretty. In memory she looked like Natalie Wood at age 21.

Only dead people are care free

I’m working on it !!!

I'm listening to great Group. March 2020

They remind me here of Devo

Jump on! You can ride me back all the way...

You are right on the mark ManofSteel. My sister and I ( African American ) loved a whole spectrum of Music. We were pre teens in the mid 60's and We were huge huge fans of The Beatles, Herman Hermits, Stones, Hendrix, Turtles, Byrds, Three Dog Night, Association ( especially Along Comes Mary ) and on and on as well as The Temps, 4Tops,Supremes, Al Green, et al. I personally believe that the 1960's was a very Optimistic time ( there is an intriguing book titled The Fourth Turning by William Strauss, Neil Howe, very prophetic ,and historic about the 'seasons' of time ( Spring, Summer, Fall Winter ). Indeed the tide turned around 1973 or so, and if you do your research you'll find that 1973 or so was just about the time of the 'slow' introduction of outsourcing and robotics in manufacturing which lead to a slow demise of the middle class ( for black folks and white folks ). The music of the Optimism season ( the Spring ) will never be the same as the one of the Winter.

I'm Black and I love all kinds of music too. Maybe the next generation of kids coming up will bring the unity back.

Clearly the best time.. Music now divides everyone more than anything...

ManofSteel3720 I believe you're referring to the song 'Windy' by The Association, not The Turtles.

@113624494843669232730 The people who made that music HAD to be born,as they were conceived at a time before the pill and abortion.After that,many geniuses in all fields were never born.

The Bloodhound Gang did a cover of this!!

Think i prefer the BHG version tbh both are good!

I was only 11. Love this song. It's from a different time. Wish I was back there ☺

THEY TOO HIP FOR hof

Not alone dude!

God, you're cool.

Not old.. older!!..

As soon as I started this video, I thought I saw this when it was aired way back when.....Class of 1966 coming up on 72 and still like this song

Right there with you, CL 👍

are you saying the association should be part of the association?

They're NOT?!

they're a phony association,not good enough to be associated with this association,who just happens to a genius sound ,then and now,some of these groups are way too good to be in the HALL

DONGOE You got that right!

I wouldn't want to be associated with an association that would associate with me! (with apologies to Groucho!).

Being in a cover band made it more fun.

The 60s really was an exciting time! Everything was being questioned clothes, music, relationships, and the government. Music was really exciting and rapidly changing the Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, The Temptations, the Doors, Chicago, Santana, The Moody Blues. "There was Revolution in the air"

It was the best era ever!! (Although, we certainly would've been much better off to not have lost so many of our young soldiers in 'Nam!!) Also, the Drug scene took way too many lives! But, everything else was Amazing! I'm so glad I'm a Baby Boomer too!

Yes Sir Buddy, We of that generation had the greatest music ever. The 60's and 70.s were almost unbelievable as far as the music went. When I hear some of the music now I almost go into a trance and remember exactly what it was like back then.

We like to think our music was the best and sometimes I think it's true. I feel validated when twenty-somethings like all the old stuff (like my eldest son does, for example). Then again, there are lots of new bands doing really cool music as well, you just have to sift through the garbage to find it, which we always had to do anyway. The only reason people nowadays don't know about garbage from back in the day is because it was...well, garbage. It's musical Darwinism at its finest.

This music never gets old, incredible indeed.

Right?! I have heard the song before - my parents "down-streamed" the album to me; and Pop Radio ["Oldies"] exposed me to it; but SEEING them, performing it live like this, just gave me goosebumps. Like, Wowsville, Man.

Listening in Match 2021

Nope, I'd never heard of them either, shame, I reckon they may have gone down well given the chance.

yes they are a gem

You have very good taste.

Alberto Olmos good news the Moody Blues were inducted in the 2018 class.

I have 7 feet of vinyl.... I know because my sister measured it as we were packing to move into our new house in Cali this weekend! Association, Moodys, Neil Diamond, so many beautiful songs...

Go Now

Yep

I could have told you, because I sang it in the shower for years! (Or attempted to...)

Compared to "Subterranean Homesick Blues", "Along Comes Mary" is a breeze.

It is, and for some of the parts, hard to play.

After 50 years, I totally agree.

Remember Mary isn't a girls name. It's about drugs. (Mary)

@@tixximmi1 No, it is not. Rumors do not count. Please cite a verifiable source that quotes the song's writer professing the drug's "association" (no pun intended).

@@gmail4218 I'm not your mother. It's pretty much general knowledge. I've heard that also from interviews with the group. Maybe you're not old enough when they were around.

@@tixximmi1 "Common knowledge" is not a verifiable source. The Association had nothing to do with writing the song, so their interviews are meaningless. You have no proof.

Yep,boomers have lived the life........

I with you man! These guys, as nerdy as they look, put out some serious tunes! and vocals that require serious talent and not assisted by some machine!

Ronald E. Childs Amen to that I miss the 70's. I remember the peace sign and we'd say "Peace man!!!". lol. an era never to be captured again were in a different America now.

@@franniebanani6532 and putin...............yup, different

Ronald E. Childs Amen

You're right that slide from the warm-up was brilliant caught me by surprise ......

I like that, the song about weed encapsulating the 60's

Ah, the Summer of 1966. All kinds of good music. Along Comes Mary is THE song that conjures up memories of happier times.

MerleOberon John dead for four years ,Bobby will be soon ,as will be Martin . War to stop the the dominos from falling starting to go south.Nixon and Agnew looming in distance . I loved the Smother Brothers . ( mom loved you more)

...This show was, perhaps, the start of real TV. They got into a lot of trouble doing shit that other variety shows only dreamed of doing.....But, their greatest achievement was getting away with it.

@@waynemartin2399 mom liked you best

@@rigelmoon9030 they got away with it until they didn't. they got cancelled. they rose to the occasion. who would have ever suspected the brothers smothers of all people to be subversive. god bless em

They had a great act....it was always something to see when they made an appearance....and, the shtick they did always had a slight edge to it. As a kid from the fifties, they scratched me right where I itched. They came along at the right time.....they were destined for greatness. I love 'em still.

Love their fashion -- velvet, stripes, etc. Wow.

@@topofthecircle know what you mean!..

listen to a guy called bladee

opinion

+Aubrey Hart The Association were indeed a very special west coast harmony band. They really thrilled me in the sixties and now I am in my sixties they still do. These guys really encapsulated all that was best of the golden age of pop. Such sublime melodies and such beautiful romantic lyrics. Wonderful!!

Aubrey Hart True! I remember seeing this performance when I was 7 years old! Always liked the"Smothers Brothers show".

Bowling for Soup is hilarious when the lights are out and they're wasting time while stuff is being set up on stage.

These guys are like a pre version of devo.

+Aubrey Hart This is no different than any other group's pre-song snappy patter.

In their time at least, they were certainly well-known, for their hits like this one, and the huge #1 hit Cherish, Windy and Never My Love.

the lyrics are amazing! Great song writing by Tandyn Almer!

Top Comment...LoL...

Right? Irresistible!

Smothers Brothers valued the music acts, and their show was the best host, I'd say better than Ed Sullivan, who often rushed groups on and off.

Yes great intro...even though he didn't add..."and the machine shall be called The Wrecking Crew!" lol

AGREED!!!!

☆

mrfester42, you've lost touch! You are so out of it. You must be ancient. You are an f-ing dinosaur. Go back under your rock! How dare you actually listen to a popular musical composition applying a level of education and/or experience in the artistic and technical difficulty in creating such a piece of music, and then make the outrageous claim that it is somehow BETTER than the computer-generated endless 3-beat loops found everywhere, particularly in lazy urban, rap, hip-hop, and pop music today. Your comment mrfester42, so short, so simple and TRUE is nothing short of genius.

Well actually, Jim Yester, who was the one singing the song, says in a video interview that for the song (written by the late Tandyn Almer, friend of L.A. artist like Brian Wilson), the instruments were played by members of the Wrecking Crew, a group of studio musicians who played on mostly all of the records coming out of L.A. in the Sixties.Still, it was a great tune, and the Association was one of my personal favorites in that day...

Michael Luther While it is true the Wrecking Crew played on the Association's records, the band could play instruments themselves. The recording studio required this arrangement. The Association played instruments in live performances. They were the opening at at Monterey Pop Festival but because they performed the 1:20 Association Machine bit, festival organizer John Phillips edited the band out of the film. He told them it wasn't the image he was looking for! Because of that decision, the Association did not achieve as much notoriety as the other artists in the film had.

What's interesting about this group was that their songs were more complicated that the usual pop songs of that era--that's what made them stand out---plus they clearly had a good and unique stage show down. Always loved the hell out of this song, even if I thought it was strange and didn't get some of the lyrics. Cool to hear them sing this live instead of lip-synching like more groups of that era did.

mysticmaverick: They still were popular and had major hits of their own--including this one, which is one of their best known hits, and was a staple of classic rock stations for years. Loved their performance at the Monterey Pop Festival when I saw it years ago. Apparently they weren't hippyish and wild enough for the Monterey fest,lol!

Thanks for that info. He is a great musician! You can see by Jim's (Jim Yester's) fast chord movement that he was trained in Jazz, as it seems most of this band was.

Larry Ramos (born Hilario Ramos) was Filipino with Chinese and Spanish mix born in Hawaii in 1942 and died of cancer in 2014 was a Grammy winner (with The New Christy Minstrels-1963) before his joining of The Association.

@@romanopaso This was 1967, not 2017. He wasn't a Woke pussy. He laughed, then insulted the guy who said it. Then they both laughed, since they both knew it was joking around and nothing else.

I was gonna say, he looks Filipino not Japanese!

The guitar was a fender knock off made in Nippon.

I wish studio musicians got more credit. The credit they deserve. This is a thought provoking song, and I think it opened the gates to more imaginative lyrics.

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Hahahaahaa “live playing” hahaha ahahahahah ohhh my... just look at the drummer,.... ya, not playing it... they didn’t even play the song on the RECORD themselves... The Wrecking Crew did.

@@gordonclement7550 true they were a pr band with good voices. They were an Avenue for well written unbranded songs. But even though they weren’t the greatest musicians, or song writers they did “perform”some well written songs that were hits.

The worst was American Bandstand. For whatever reason, no one could even lip sync their own songs at show.

Lead vocals were a live track, that's about it.

@@circusitchlook at John Mellancamp’s American Bandstand performance. He is just mocking the whole idea.

Great material...plus instruments. Sound's 🎼🎶🎶🎵🎸🥁🎹

That is too cool

Hope u n joy

I love these videos but they are lip syncing and pantomiming.... really electric guitars and mikes with no wires amps etc.....

@@laurachristianson1688 That's the way everyone did it on TV back then. I've seen them do this for real, live, and it sounds just as good.

@@laurachristianson1688 the music is a track but those vocals were live 🎶❤🎤🎶

now ur talkin blob, TMBG

I was lucky enough to the Association at Disneyland for grad night in 1966. It took us months to get 5he words straight. Now there are a select few who can sing along. I highly recommend the entire album. Enter the young, Requiem For the Masses, and Everything that Touches You. BTW Carol H. I miss you!

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