1910 Fruitgum Company : May I Take A Giant Step ( Into Your Heart) [Purchase] Between their two biggest Top 10 singles, "Simon Says" and "1,2,3 Red Light", bubblegum rockers The 1910 Fruitgum Company released the oddly titled "May I Take a Giant Step (Into Your Heart)". Like the other singles it's based on a children's game. This one is called " Mother, May I" in which kids ask [...]
May i take a giant step - 1910 Fruitgum Company Download: 03-may-i-take-a-giant-step.mp3 [...]
1, 2, 3, Red light - The 1910 Fruitgum Company See? Rock did attain perfection in the late 602s after all.
The late 1960s belonged to Jeffrey Katz and Jerry Kasenetz, who twiddled the knobs on gobs of singles and albums referred to as bubblegum music. Deceptively simple and often carved of lyrics parroting nursery rhythms, bubblegum music was a hot commodity, with bands like the Music Explosion, the 1910 Fruitgum Company, the Ohio Express, the Lemon Pipers, the Archies and [...]
A quintessential example of a combo from the era of 'bubblegum pop' was the 1910 Fruitgum Company, a group that seemed by its very name to signal the kind of music it performed. And even though that name is not a familiar one now, in its few short years of existence the group was able to spin out several Top Five records, including its biggest seller, "Simon Says." The 1910 Fruitgum Company owed its beginnings - at least in part - to the same guys who put together the [...]
It's hard to believe that the bubblegum group that hit with "Simon Says" and "Indian Giver" also produced one of the greatest Phil Spector tributes of all time, "When We Get Married." Their last single for Buddah, it barely bubbled under at #118 in 1969, and marked their last chart appearance. But 40+ years later, it still packs an incredible Spectorian wallop thanks to Richie Cordell's take-no-prisoners production. MP3 | When We Get Married 1910 [...]
By Chris Gedos The New Jersey bubblegum band oh-so-ironically named 1910 Fruitgum Company was not a one hit wonder. “Simon Says” made it to #4 in March, 1968; “1,2,3, Red Light” and “Indian Giver” both reached #5 in ‘68 and ‘69, respectively. So why are all three songs so scarcely heard on OBG stations today? All three records sold over a million copies upon release, so where’s the love? My only thesis is that overtly saccharine songs associated with the period between The Summer [...]
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A few days ago I found a post about a '65 single - Indian Giver - by Chuck Bernard, it wasn't the same song as the one I knew by the 1910 Fruitgum Co, so I looked in my burgeoning music library, to find I'd grabbed another tune with (almost) the same title from Siblingshot last year. Who knew? three different songs with nearly the same title... it must be a sign eh; but being a bit umm obsessive, and having unlimited time & energy for the unimportant, I found a few more; thirteen actually. With [...]
A few more gems cut at the "Brill Building North": 1910 Fruitgum Company - 1,2,3 Red Light 1910 Fruitgum Company - Simon Says 1910 Fruitgum Company - Indian Giver Tommy James And The Shondells - I Think We're Alone Now Tommy James And The Shondells - Mirage [...]
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Not simply because, to paraphrase H2O , we get to "eat like it's for charity!" but because I think it's a good thing to have at least one day a year whose stated purpose is being thankful. Certainly, there are opportunities almost every day to be thankful for what we have, what inspires us and why we keep going but to have a single day where, ostensibly, the entire United States focuses on this activity is pretty awe-inspiring. There's a lot of stuff I'm thankful for that I'm [...]
1910 Fruitgum Company - 1, 2, 3 Red Light (from a 1968 single, collected on The Best of the 1910 Fruitgum Company: Simon Says , 2001) ------------------------------ ----- Mike Post and Pete Carpenter - Theme from Magnum P.I. ------------------------------ ----- (Thanks for the cards, Chris !)
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