Thursday, February 19, 2026

An Early Clue to the New Direction

From 1963, and one of those fabulous local teen rock TV shows somewhere, please enjoy extremely blonde nice Jewish girl Diane Renay and her smash hit tribute to pre-Vietnam military enlistment "Navy Blue."

I really liked that at the time, corny as it is, and still do. BTW, when I found that clip, it dawned on me that this was the first time I had ever heard it in stereo.

Wiki also informs me that the song was co-written and produced by the great Bob Crewe, of Four Seasons and Mitch Ryder fame.

In any case, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize© will be awarded to the first reader who gleans the song's significance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Essay Question.

3 comments:

Allan Rosenberg said...

The weird mix of rock & roll with the military,

See you in Iran kids!

Captain Al

getawaygoober said...

That organ sounds like it's from the surf-monster flicks from that time. Or the Hammond store down at the mall... some poor guy had to sit there all day long playing "Moon River". Not quite Rick Wakeman.

mistah charley, ph.d. said...

Hearing this song again for perhaps the first time in six decades reminded me of a saying - search shows me it is the opening sentence of the 1953 novel "The Go-Between" by the British author L.P. Hartley. "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." And yet, as Jerry Weinberg said in "Secrets of Consulting" - "Things are the way they are because they got that way" - conditions and decisions of the past have shaped the world we currently inhabit. I came across a clip of Pat Benatar performing "We Belong Together" at the age of 72 - the poster said "She's not done yet - and neither are you." Not yet.