I’ve been following Fimnora Westcaw over on Quantum Hermit do this “25 Songs in 25 Days” challenge. Been kind of a trip down memory lane reading her blog posts and watching her videos. Made me think I want to do something with music, too.
So today I’m asking you all the question, “Who was your first musical heartthrob?” Please feel free to share and post videos in the comment box. I’d love to hear all about it. AND this is GENDER NEUTRAL!
For me, even though I’m a child of the 60’s, it was a rather “tame” young man I first fell in love with: Johnny Crawford. My favorite record of his was “Rumors” followed closely by “Cindy’s Birthday.”
You may remember him as Mark McCain on TV’s The Rifleman where he played Chuck Connors’ son. Connors and Crawford were very close. Crawford’s own home life wasn’t ideal, and he spent more and more time with Conners. Their relationship spanned years, to the end of Connors’ life.
Today Johnny Crawford is STILL singing. One of Disney’s original Mouseketeers, he now has his own “big band,” The Johnny Crawford Orchestra. I’ll keep this short, but if you’re interested, there’s lots of info on the internet about Crawford. In one little “aside.” a few years ago Village Inn restaurant made new menus and there on the left-hand corner at the bottom was a picture of Johnny Crawford eating pancakes! The waitress had NO clue who he was (I think she was 12), but I was so tickled the store manager gave me my own copy of the menu. I contacted their headquarters, and sure enough, that was him, circa 1957. What a treat.
Now who was YOUR first musical heartthrob?
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“Rumors”
“Living In The Past” In Memory of Chuck Connors (His Pa)
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Oh my gosh, almighty Johnny Crawford! We didn’t have a tv (my father didn’t allow it) but we watched on Sundays over at my grandmother’s house. I got to see little bits. So if I had to go with a singing heartthrob, it was more likely early 60s (most of the music came from my brother, when I was a wee one). I’m definitely jumping on this band wagon! brb
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My favorite women in songs woyld be Brandy and Aubrey
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You mean song titles or actual women singers? Don’t forget I’ve been stuck in the 40’s and 50’s (and some 60’s) for most of my life. I didn’t particularly care for the latter half of the 60’s so I went lookin’ for older country music.
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Brandy by looking glass and Aubrey by bread
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Titles. I was in love with the women in those songs 🙂
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Ok. Got cha. I know Brandy, of course. She’s the “pirate” wench. (Of course that’s not fair to say since it never comes right out and SAYS he a pirate…;) Don’t think I’ve ever heard Aubrey. I’ll have to go have a listen.
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Yes mam. She tried to steal a salior from the sea.
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Doesn’t mean he WAS a pirate. Come on now. Give the poor guy the benefit of the doubt. (After all, MY Brandy was the pirate! 🙂 )
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Sailor he was. That’s a good story. Cant wait to read it
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(And so, dear listeners, the next verbal fencing match is about to begin! 🙂 )
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She wears a braided chain made of finest silver from the north of spain a locket which bears the name of the man she has to go rescue
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You did read it. It was the Pirate prompt, remember. But I beg to place before you again, fine sir, the fact that “sailor” does not a “pirate” make. He could have been in Her Majesty Royal Navy. Even IF he gives her expensive jewelry. Personally I think he was just buying her affection. 😉
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Yes i remember. Not brandy though. She not a hooch. She gaurds that treasure. She is hardheaded though and after she saves the captain he will have to save her from herself. And they lived happily ever after.
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See there! You already have written a different story in your head! Grin. My wench wasn’t nearly so “precious.” (Btw, yes, I do remember Aubrey after I went to listen to it on YT. Just been a VERY long time.)
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I keep wanting it to work out. 🙂 I listened to the Aubrey song for the first time as a grown up and was struck by the pattern of unrequieted love and longing that was in it. Why did a little boy resonate with that? Or were those patterns imprinted in me?
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Really? You figure little girls are the only ones who have unrequited love issues? I think those patterns get imprinted in most of us by our family of origin, albeit mostly unintentional. Our folks were just normal people trying to figure out how to unscrew up their lives. We kind of got caught in the cross fire, maybe?
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Dude, you really are a soft-hearted romantic, you adorable pirate!
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I are. The romantic part anyway
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I know. It shows in your poetry. It’s a beautiful thing. ❤
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I used to wish all that away cause it hurts sometimes but really I wouldn’t want to be any other way. I love beautiful things and souls. Its fun smiling in spite and laughing while standing in a ruin. It means I survived and and undefeated. The ugliness is temporary. Beauty is eternal.
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Well said, my friend… You just need to show the rest of us the way through our own ruins…
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I dont have anything clever to say to that.
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Well maybe just, here, take my hand and watch your step?
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I had no idea Johnny Crawford was a singer but I sure remember him from the Rifleman. My first musical heart throb had to be Ricky Nelson. I watched the sitcom Ozzie and Harriet just so I could hear him sing. Swoon. I’m old enough that probably a lot of people won’t ever had heard of him.
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He did have quite a long career, though. I remember him singing at the end of every show. It’s really too bad his life ended the way it did. People always think success is going to be so fulfilling, don’t they? But I think performers have more “holes” in their hearts than normal, everyday people.
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There is something about the lifestyle, being on the road a lot, and all kinds of adoring fans who might easily tempt them. It could be very difficult. I thought he was so darn good looking as a young man.
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Yes. Kind of makes me wonder if the powers that be tried to give him some stability when they brought his wife Kris and their twins on the show. Interesting to me that the boys (Matthew and Gunnar) went on to be so successful musically as well.
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Linda ronstat. When I was little I think doris day cause of the tv show
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Linda Ronstat. Yeah. I might have guessed that one. Doris Day? That’s a surprise. I do have to say I LOVED her in “Calamity Jane.” And my favorite song by her is “Secret Love” from that same movie.
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I was trying to think of my earliest association with a woman singer. Maybe I loved her cause we got to stay up a little later to watch the tv show.
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Lordy! That was me with Lawrence Welk on Saturday nights. And also Sing Along With Mitch. Haven’t thought about that show in years. And let me tell ya, I was pretty dang good at Name That Tune! Usually only took me three notes! It was great having a musician for a dad. We heard LOTS of music. (I couldn’t find anything I wanted to do around the homestead. Got three phone calls, though.)
Do you have a favorite song by either of your gals?
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Just a jr high boy remembering the way she sounded and looked on the album cover
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Bobby Sherman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMq_uzyRaS0
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Boy, I’d forgotten all about him. “Here Come the Brides” (1970). That’s Bobby Sherman doing the theme song in case folks don’t know him. Gorgeous guy! Thanks for kicking the ball off, Colleen!
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You know what he’s doing now? He’s an EMT in Cali.
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I think maybe you got the wrong Johnny Crawford. He’s the director and leader of The Johnny Crawford Dance Orchestra. Their latest album was “Sweepin’ the Clouds Away.”
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