Thursday, June 26, 2025: Daily Dirt
Welcome to the three ideas that comprise Vol. 1,324 of The Daily Dirt. If you were growing up in the early 1970s, you were definitely belting out one Bobby Sherman song or another.
1. About a week ago, Julie, Do Ya Love Me came on my favorite oldies radio station and I smiled.
Many good recollections of the early 1970s were evoked by the song. One of Bobby Sherman’s bubble-gum-like successes from that era, it was the ideal song for a sweltering summer day throughout the year.
Sherman’s death from cancer was announced earlier this week. He was eighty-one.
That means that in June, we lost three significant pop music icons from the 1960s and early 1970s. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and Sly Stone, the former lead singer of Sly and the Family Stone, both died earlier in June.
Sherman always maintained that spotless image and never carried any extra baggage, in contrast to Stone and Wilson. He was once ranked No. 8 on TV Guide’s list of the 25 Greatest Teen Idols.
Sherman also acted in three network TV series. However, as his fame in show business started to fade, he joined the Los Angeles Police Department as a licensed medical emergency technician and teacher, teaching CPR and first aid to new recruits. The story’s high point? Sherman gave away his pay to support several causes in the community.
Many accidents, some of which were self-inflicted, marred Stone and Wilson’s lives. Sherman never succumbed to the failures of many entertainers, particularly during that era. Sherman’s narrative was maybe best summarized by the following quote:
People often ask, “Well, what would you do if you could go back and change things?” In 1997, he told The Tulsa World. Other than perhaps being a little more conscious of it, I don’t think there is anything I would change because I definitely could have enjoyed the experience a little more. A lot of work went into it. There was a lot of tears, sweat, and blood. However, those were the best times.
Our top five Bobby Sherman songs are as follows:
1. Do You Love Me, Julie (1970)
2. The 1969 film Little Woman
3. The 1970 film Easy Come, Easy Go
4. If I Had You (La La La) (1970)
5. Produce Your Own Music (1969)
2. Did you know (Part 407)
- That before becoming famous, Elvis Presley worked as a truck driver.
- That singer Taylor Swift was named after fellow singer James Taylor. Her parents, fans of James Taylor, chose the name Taylor because they wanted a gender-neutral name for her, believing it might help her career. They also thought it was a good, strong name.
- That the Guinness World Records reports that Rod Stewart s 1993 New Year s Eve concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is the free concert attended by the most people in history. It is said that there were an estimated 4.2 million people at the performance.
- That Metallica is the only rock band to ever play on all seven continents, which includes a 2013 concert in Antarctica.
- That Prince played 27 instruments on his debut album.
3. Remember back to the late 1960s and the psychedelic rock era?
In my opinion, the top ten songs from that era were as follows, and interestingly, the majority of them were also huge hits:
- Pictures of Matchstick Men, Status Quo.
- Hurdy Gurdy Man, Donovan.
- Green Tambourine, Lemon Pipers.
- In A Gadda Da Vida, Iron Butterfly.
- I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night, Electric Prunes.
- Whiter Shade Of Pale, Procol Harum.
- Purple Haze, Jimi Hendrix.
- Crimson and Clover, Tommy James and Shondells.
- Incense and Peppermints, Strawberry Alarm Clock.
- Psychotic Reaction, Count Five.
- Time Has Come Today, Chambers Brothers.
Steve’s Daily ThoughtIn 1978, when Ron Guidry was a 25-3 pitcher for the Yankees, he lost three times against opposing pitchers Mike Flanagan, Willis, and Caldwell.
Every day, Steve Eighinger contributes to Muddy River News. Steve’s talk about psychedelics would be fascinating.
