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Lee Michaels — Do You Know What I Mean

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pigtail (Southern California)	Posted: Apr 17, 2013 - 13:36 Oh yes! Play more from this album! The entire contents is great!
1wolfy (Mission Viejo California)	Posted: Apr 17, 2013 - 13:36 Pain sung splendidly She's a dandy, yes indeed!
WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)	Posted: Oct 11, 2012 - 07:23 lemmoth wrote: It's 1971, I'm 13, raging puberty, and just starting to put together the connection between everything I am hearing on the radio and my life. 07. Go Away Little Girl » Donny Osmond I love this post. Made me recall the original version of the Goffin-King song was by Steve Lawrence in 1962—when I was 13 and, yep, hormones were in overdrive—and was a No. 1 hit for him as it was for Osmond a decade later.
Easyrider (Portugal)	Posted: Aug 09, 2012 - 06:29 Oh dear'
bill-1956 (The Greater Moncure Metro Area, NC)	Posted: Aug 09, 2012 - 06:26 A one hit wonder from when I was young! Takes me back.
ziakut (The Windy City)	Posted: May 06, 2012 - 08:46 For some reason I always thought this sounded like 70s Rolling Stones. Glad it isn't.
billymann (Sun Valley, ID)	Posted: May 06, 2012 - 08:46 one of the many gems in my dads collection when I was a kid....oohh
meadowwoods (Dane County, WI)	Posted: May 06, 2012 - 08:45 Didn't like it then, don't like it now.
hippiechick (topsy turvy land)	Posted: May 06, 2012 - 08:44 Played way to much on classic rock radio.
robbeek (the foothills above El Lay....)	Posted: Apr 04, 2012 - 15:56 Aw, hell yeah! Have loved this one going all the way back to hearing it at the local roller rink. Us "church of Christ" types weren't allowed to dance, but we sure could skate like demons!
ScottFromWyoming (Powell)	Posted: Feb 01, 2012 - 07:03 On_The_Beach wrote: from "psychedeliclion": Michaels' choice of the Hammond organ as his primary instrument was unusual for the time, as was his bare-bones stage and studio accompaniment: usually just a single drummer, most often a musician known as 'Frosty' (Bartholomew Eugene Smith-Frost} or with Joel Larson of The Grass Roots. This unorthodox approach attracted a following in San Francisco, and some critical notice, but Michaels did not achieve real commercial success until the release of his fifth album (Fifth), which produced a surprise U.S. Top 10 hit (#6 in the fall of 1971), "Do You Know What I Mean" . . . I've never listened to this song closely... just a Hammond plus drums? On the AM radio it always sounded like a full studio. Cool.
vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)	Posted: Feb 01, 2012 - 07:02 And then she said Lee you haven't loved me in nearly four years You haven't noticed that I held back my tears And now you have, but it's really too late Better find yourself another girl
lemmoth (NYC)	Posted: Feb 01, 2012 - 07:02 Song always puts the 13 year old me back on the baseball fields at Shore Road in Brooklyn with my transistor radio waiting for the current game to be over and mine to be played. Along with Maggie Mae this was the soundtrack of my spring and summer.
meinthecorner (Tranna)	Posted: Dec 31, 2011 - 12:35 Cool segue, Bill...Ben Folds to Lee Michaels. OMG!
On_The_Beach (The Blue Planet)	Posted: Oct 29, 2011 - 09:52 from "psychedeliclion": Michaels' choice of the Hammond organ as his primary instrument was unusual for the time, as was his bare-bones stage and studio accompaniment: usually just a single drummer, most often a musician known as 'Frosty' (Bartholomew Eugene Smith-Frost} or with Joel Larson of The Grass Roots. This unorthodox approach attracted a following in San Francisco, and some critical notice, but Michaels did not achieve real commercial success until the release of his fifth album (Fifth), which produced a surprise U.S. Top 10 hit (#6 in the fall of 1971), "Do You Know What I Mean" . . .
daedalus (Over your hill)	Posted: Sep 27, 2011 - 11:38 Sorry to offend those for whom this evokes good memories, I found it embarrassingly bad. I'm just glad that no-one was around to hear me playing it...
ZM_Herb (28? 33' N 81? 23' W)	Posted: Sep 27, 2011 - 11:13 WonderLizard wrote: He was Bay Area staple, but I never got a chance to see him. I heard, tho', that his band was LOUD—like Blue Cheer, Who, Clash LOUD. Amen to that - I was living in SoCal in the early 70's and saw hem play live a couple of times. I think he had to switch to exclusively playing Piano live b/c he blew out his hearing with the loud organ!
smackiepipe (Western North Carolina)	Posted: Sep 27, 2011 - 11:13 scraig wrote: Reminds of 'Love Stinks.' 3. Heh. I can hear the J. Geils. I was thinking some Wet Willie, as well.
kurtster (sometimes the statue and sometimes the pigeon)	Posted: Jun 25, 2011 - 05:05 Thanks for the blast and to whoever uploaded this. 8
lemmoth (NYC)	Posted: May 24, 2011 - 13:40 It's 1971, I'm 13, raging puberty, and just starting to put together the connection between everything I am hearing on the radio and my life. And this song was as much a part of my year - particularly my spring and summer - as any other. # 19 on Billboard's Top 100 singles of 1971 - here are the top 20.God - did I listen to the radio a lot - I could sing along to all the below. 01. Joy To The World » Three Dog Night 02. Maggie May / (Find A) Reason To Believe » Rod Stewart 03. It's Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move » Carole King 04. One Bad Apple » Osmonds 05. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart » Bee Gees 06. Indian Reservation » Raiders 07. Go Away Little Girl » Donny Osmond 08. Take Me Home, Country Roads » John Denver 09. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) » Temptations 10. Knock Three Times » Dawn 11. Me And Bobby McGee » Janis Joplin 12. Tired Of Being Alone » Al Green 13. Want Ads » Honey Cone 14. Smiling Faces Sometimes » Undisputed Truth 15. Treat Her Like A Lady » Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose 16. You've Got A Friend » James Taylor 17. Mr. Big Stuff » Jean Knight 18. Brown Sugar » Rolling Stones 19. Do You Know What I Mean » Lee Michaels 20. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down » Joan Baez
scraig (Santa Barbara, CA)	Posted: May 24, 2011 - 13:37 Reminds of 'Love Stinks.' 3.
JrzyTmata	Posted: May 24, 2011 - 13:36 hoooo!
unclelonghair	Posted: May 24, 2011 - 13:35 Man I thought this was The Commitments.
sirdroseph (Yes)	Posted: Mar 22, 2011 - 11:18 One of my favorite sing along songs of all times!
ShaunJ (Tsawwassen, BC)	Posted: Mar 22, 2011 - 11:16 grogg wrote: Haven't heard this one in a long time. Thanks! Aaaaaahh, love it, great memories!
Kokoloco53 (Safford, AZ)	Posted: Mar 22, 2011 - 11:16 Yes, I know what you mean. Wow, what a stab, from the past, in many ways. Great tune.
No_Where_Man (Southern Ca.)	Posted: Mar 22, 2011 - 11:15 WOW, Always thought this was 3 Dog Night
Grammarcop (The Paris of the Midwest)	Posted: Mar 22, 2011 - 11:15 Mute.
iam_overlord (Brighton, MA)	Posted: Mar 22, 2011 - 11:15 Sounds like she should have left him 4 years before. Got no sympathy for the guy.
grogg	Posted: Mar 22, 2011 - 11:14 Haven't heard this one in a long time. Thanks!
On_The_Beach (Vancouver BC, Bud)	Posted: Jan 18, 2011 - 19:38 Great tune. Thanks for dusting this one off, RP!
WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)	Posted: Jan 18, 2011 - 19:37 He was Bay Area staple, but I never got a chance to see him. I heard, tho', that his band was LOUD—like Blue Cheer, Who, Clash LOUD.
SoundThinker	Posted: Dec 18, 2010 - 10:00 The second concert that I saw in my lifetime was back in Spring of 1972 and it was Lee Michaels and Jo Jo Gunne. "Do You Know What I Mean" was a "hit" on the radio then.
mnmrosen (Wisconsin)	Posted: Dec 18, 2010 - 09:58 One of my favorites when I was 11 years old. Still fun to hear. Thanks!
gdhog79 (Asheville, NC)	Posted: Dec 18, 2010 - 09:57 I thought this was The J. Geils Band at first.
Randomax (Wimberley, TX)	Posted: Nov 16, 2010 - 16:12 wow - blast from the past...a good one!
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