To be more clear, I remember it being said not that the song was in any way a specific, graphic, sexual pun about 69-ing, but just that “The Summer of '69” was meant to mean his (or anyone’s) first ‘Summer of Having Sex’ if you will, but that Adams’ simply didn’t occur in 1969 C.E.
I think we’re saying the same thing, but in different ways. But Adams does have two different interpretations of the song…
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SEX! 69 IS A SEX POSITION! HA! DON’T YOU GET IT? I’M EDGY!
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“Summer of 69” is meant to evoke that feeling after high school/college where you’re free to have your own adventures for the first time, which includes your first sexual experience.
The co-writer leans towards the second one and, even then, he thinks the sex stuff is just a tiny, tiny part of it. Having fun and being free were supposed to be the big themes.
Drug is the Love that I’m thinkin’ of…
Your Drug is My Love…
To be drugged, to be drugged, what a feeling it’s a love…
So what kind of colossal mess does Come Dancing by The Kinks leave behind?
Come dancing,
That’s how they did it when I was just a kid,
And when they said come dancing,
My sister always did.
Really? I was in HS when it [del]came out[/del] [del]was released[/del] the song was first…aired. Nobody actually thought it was a bukakke song, but we all had our little giggle about what a mess Eileen was in.
My wife heard it for the first time a few months ago (she’s a bit younger than I am and the song didn’t stick around for very long initially) and she was kinda nonplussed until I flicked her a wink and suggestive hand maneuver during the accelerando bit. We went to bed laughing out all kinds of alternative lyrics that night. I guess if you’ve never really grown up you can find the humor in it, even if it doesn’t make sense.
Maybe Rosemary Clooney couldn’t afford to have her house painted, so she sent out an invitation via the radio.
Oh, the humanity!
:::hijack::: for once there’s a mondegreen that still keeps its basic meaning in both forms. While I suspected it was “rock you” (because song title,) my mind can’t help but hear it as “Here I am, raunchy like a hurricane” which is saying pretty much the same thing.
They are all about heroin.
When the song was a hit, my brother was about to play this song on his high school radio show, and the other DJ told that joke, only it was sweat, not grease.
That other DJ was told not to do anything like that again.
Some years later, the Dexys singer released an album called “My Beauty” that by all accounts was not bad musically, but people refused to buy it because of the cover.