Hah! That's nothin' - I remember valve radios. Not that they were especially portable, mind you

Transports me to junior high school. That was a dark time for me, but music was kind of my savior. This song was one of the musical highlights of that time. Thanks for the memories Bill. 

Yes! On the transistor radio, at the beach. Early 70's?

gypsyman wrote: nalle wrote:
Sure you want to know? :)

1st time I've heard TJ on RP...and it's cool with me!  This guy could crank out some singles.  Sweet Cherry Wine, anyone?

Hah! That's nothin' - I remember valve radios. Not that they were especially portable, mind you . I also remember building very basic radio sets with transistors (usually burning them out because I didn't know how to solder properly), diodes, capacitors and tuning coils. Again, those weren't right portable, or even working...

I think folk these days, when you've millions of transistors etched on a microchip, forget just how revolutionary the transistor was in the 60s, and why the phrase 'solid state' (meaning transistor circuits) was such a strong selling point for electronic items, including high-end stereo amps. The transistor has to be up there in the top 10 of world-shaking inventions. Portable transistor radios were the 'must have' cool item in those days, particularly for music and football (soccer, to youse across the Pond) fans. Transistor radios had the same kudos then as iPods do these days. Really.

Ok, that's enough of All Our Yesterdays...

OK Bill, Now you've gone and made me want to hear "Crimson & Clover" again.

Unfortunately, we still don't know what a Shondell is.

Funny. I remember, and can still picture, my first transistor radio. It was a Hitachi and I probably got it in about 1963 or thereabouts. Remember when such radios used to proudly display how many transistors they had on the case? My Hitachi was an "eight transistor" model and was vastly superior, I'm sure, to my friend's "six transistor."

I remember hearing it at college in the summer of 1969. 

 martinc wrote: 

Only LP I ever won. It wasn't 1989 maybe more like 1970?

Yes! On the transistor radio, at the beach. Early 70's?

We seem to be overlooking the larger issue of just what the heck is a Shondell? 

Can we every be this happy again?  I wish.

From Wikipedia:
"The title of the song came to James while he was reading The Bible's Book of Revelation, according to James in a 1985 interview in Hitch magazine:
"I took the title from the Book of Revelations in the Bible, reading about the New Jerusalem. The words jumped out at me, and they're not together; they're spread out over three or four verses. But it seemed to go together, it's my favorite of all my songs and one of our most requested."
However some sources cite the Song of Solomon instead. It has also been suggested that this song was also inspired by a book James had read called The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (Jehovah's Witnesses).
The book gives information about the future of mankind based on Scripture, and has a blue cover^. However, according to James's manager, James was actually inspired by his reading of the Book of Ezekiel where it speaks of the Blue Shekinah Light which represented the presence of the Almighty God and the Books of Isaiah and Revelation where it speaks of a bright future of a brotherhood of mankind living in peace and harmony."