Surfin’ Bird by The Trashmen
February 28, 2011 in Music | Tags: 1960s, annoying, bird is the word, pop music, rock ’n’ roll, single, song, surfin' bird, trashmen, two minutes, usa, you tube
The diaries of R.A.D. Stainforth, the last man in Europe, or his footprints on the sands of time
February 28, 2011 in Music | Tags: 1960s, annoying, bird is the word, pop music, rock ’n’ roll, single, song, surfin' bird, trashmen, two minutes, usa, you tube
This is the best of me; for the rest, I ate, and drank, and slept, loved and hated, like another: my life was as the vapour and is not; but this I saw and knew; this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory.
(John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies)
Whatever people say I am, that’s what I’m not.
(Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning)
This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me.
(Emily Dickinson, This is my letter to the world)
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
(Edna St. Vincent Millay, Second Fig)
I was born before The Beatles’ first LP and brought up in the reeking slums of Jericho. I am in love with a woman called Hazel and in love with her daughter, also called Hazel, both of whom I met at Alcoholics Anonymous.
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February 28, 2011 at 11:03 pm
toemailer
Amazing song! Such energy.
March 1, 2011 at 12:45 am
R.A.D. Stainforth
It’s a crazy song and should be played non-stop to anyone who thinks that music is therapeutic.
February 28, 2011 at 8:42 pm
Tess Kincaid
What did you say the word was? ((giggle))
March 1, 2011 at 12:44 am
R.A.D. Stainforth
Bird, Tess, bird is the word … or hadn’t you heard? In the beginning was the word, and the word was bird, and it was good, it was a good word … bird.
February 28, 2011 at 5:09 am
Bill
Egad! I remember when this song first appeared … twas a head scratcher and a fast dance – otherwise, the Beach Boys and the Dick Dale sound was very much “it” and The Beatles were just bubblegum.
March 1, 2011 at 12:42 am
R.A.D. Stainforth
OMG whatever became of The Beatles? But seriously, The Trashmen were way ahead of their time …