Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "Bugles in Military History" video.
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@lakrids-pibe
I first heard this from Peter, Paul and Mary in the 60s! Then as the best man at Peter's wedding in 1969, Paul composed and sang, "The Wedding Song (there is love)" for the first time. Can you imagine hearing that song for the first time, at your wedding? I'm not even religious, but to this day, I get chills when I hear his opening notes...
Everytime I heard, "Leaving on a jet plane", I'd cry, imagining my boyfriend and I parted...which irritated my mom to death, because I was only 10, and she would tell me in her hoarse voice (Kent cigarettes) to stop being dramatic, SHE would love to be on a plane going ANYWHERE, away from all our howling...hippies had just swarmed into Palo Alto and the Bay Area around San Francisco, and were driving out the elegance of Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart swanning around the city in Vertigo, and replacing it with leather, indian fabrics and the smell of patchouli...instead of snappy dialogue, everyone was smoking pot, dropping acid and "tuning out".
It was extremely frustrating for older people like my parents, who had all been fighting the world war and repopulating the earth afterwards, to have kids who only wanted to strum guitars and meditate...we weren't exactly what they were expecting!
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