Cassi Creek: Another
earworm has surfaced in the past few days.
As confirmation of aging and being no longer in the dominant
demographic, I began hearing the song, “Tan Shoes and Pink Shoe Laces” at odd
moments. As is common with such
manifestations, only a portion of the song floated into short-term recall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gFOzaSQY6Q
The song
appeared in the Bill Board top 100 on 16 February 1959. That takes us back to the Eisenhower Administration,
the 1950s. It peaked at #3 on the top
100.
It is today
as it was then, inane but enjoyable sock hop music that was prominent in the AM
teen market. It co-existed with the Folk
Revival that began in the 1940s and peaked in the mid 1960s.
There is such
a wealth of information available on the internet that even this sort of trivia
can be found and disseminated. Now that
I have found this I’ll post the retrieval link, in hopes that someone else will
open it, and in doing so, transfer it to their ear. This is similar to the old myth that was
surprisingly common among young soldiers in VietNam; which led them to believe
that the easiest cure for gonorrhea was to pass it on to another woman than the
one they believed was the intermediate source of their infection. I can’t total the number of times I was asked
if this were true. It was not, but I
imagine the myth still exists today among young males.
Next, “Come on, Come on, Do the Locomotion With Me.”
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