Xavier from Plantation, FlMy all-time favorite childhood song.always thought he was the cutest member of the band. just wonder why mark looks the way he does in both videos, like he hates the song. i have seen two vidoes of the song and he does not look happy to sing it in either video. Mamie from Cleveland, OhI'm curious as to why Mark always looks so unhappy, to me, he looks unhappy when he sings this song.peaked at #4 (for 4 weeks) on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart it had entered the chart on January 21st at position #77 and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100 (and for 6 of those 14 weeks it was on the Top 10).īetween January 1968 and August 1969 the quintet had seven records on the Top 100 with three making the Top 10 (besides this one, the other two were "1,2,3, Red Light" (#5 for 2 weeks in 1968) and "Indian Giver" (#5 for 1 week in 1969). Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 3rd 1968, "Simon Says" by the 1910 Fruitgum Co.On the same 'Bandstand' the New Jersey quintet also performed "May I Take A Giant Step (Into your Heart)" and the following month on April 14th, 1968 it entered the Top 100, eventually it peaked at #63 and spent 9 weeks on the chart. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 9th 1968, the 1910 Fruitgum Company performed "Simon Says" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'.Īt the time the song was at #4 on Billboard’s Hot Top 100 chart.no ones mentioned it yet on here but it cant be a coincidence. Kevin from Oregon I can't confirm it for sure but the way they say Simple Simon sounds alot like psilocybin: the psychoactive ingredient to many psychedelic mushrooms.No underlying psychedelic meaning, no mushrooms or any other vegetables involved at all. Teacher would say, Simon says put your hands on your knees (head, toes, touch your nose, touch your ears etc.) if you got it wrong your were out. We used to play it at the end of the school day. Jan from DevonKevin from Oregon: Simple Simon was a game way, way before the song.Whatever the hell you're on Kevin, get off it! 99.9% of people who listen to this song hear Simple Simon Says as.Simple Simon Says! Only you have made that connection to an hallucinogenic most people never heard of. Perry from OttawaDear Kevin from Oregon.But I remember that song on her car radio :) But it was kind of cold on that day, early June 1968, and I think she finally gave up. I was in a summer recreation program, and my teacher/coach was driving us around town trying to find a place where we kids could run around and be kids. Kev from Rogers, ArI remember this song from 1968.Ralphm from Sebring FlKevin from Oregon: Get off the stuff NOW! NO one hears that or ever has.except you, who obviously partakes.They were girls and guys our age: 18, 19 years old, 20 years old, who were into the music." (Check out our interview with Floyd Marcus.) We find that out on the road, when we're out on the road, our fans weren't just little kids coming to see us. But I think it caught on with a lot of older people, too. And that was probably the young teenager that was neglected in the industry with all the music that was coming out. So when 'Simon Says' came out, and 'One, Two, Three Red Light' came out, and 'May I Take A Giant Step' came out, there was a market that we were playing for. I think it was kind of a rebellion, and people wanted a rest from all that. The Beatles had morphed from this pop group into Sergeant Pepper, It was getting heavier out there. There was Jimi Hendrix, there was The Doors, Zeppelin came on the scene around '69. But looking back in retrospect, we feel that its time had come, because people in that five-year period were kind of tired of all the heaviness of music. When these songs were released, especially 'Simon Says' being the first one in '68, a lot of people didn't take to it, feeling it didn't have a lot of substance. But I think a lot of it was that there was so much serious content in the years of the Vietnam War, and all the rebellion that was going on, all the drug culture that was going on. There was so much social commentary in music back then, there was a lot of sexual innuendo. I guess it partially came as a rebellion against the music. Floyd Marcus told us: "There wasn't really a genre at that time. At the time, the term "Bubblegum Music" didn't exist.
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