Down the rabbit hole of YouTube, one can find things like....

[Beekissed]

...this video, possibly one of the most awkward music vids I've ever seen. I absolutely LOVED this song when I was young and still love to hear it, but probably wouldn't have loved it quite so much if I had had to think of this vid while listening to it! Poor Leo couldn't dance at all but someone made him FEEL like doing it, so I guess that's enough. Take a gander at these clothes...

C'mon, who loved this song too? Tell us all about it....

 

[Beekissed]

Guess what? Found another of Leo's that I didn't know he had done, which I also loved when I was young....and in this vid he still insists he can dance while demonstrating that he can't really dance. Really. Can't. Please stop, Leo.

And, again...the clothes! Or lack thereof. Truly, video killed the radio star, because he's got a great voice for a skinny little white dude.

Oh, the things I get up to when I can't sleep.....

 

[Carol Dee]

A frog in a blender comes to mind , LOL

 

[Nyboy]

I remember being in clubs when You make me feel like dancing would play. LOVED that song, glad I never saw video. I had that same hair style in high school, my friend Denise gave me a perm. Also loved video killed the radio star A lot of music from my teen and early 20s played as classic now a days

 

[Nyboy]

What realty gets to me is when I go into a Antique shop and see a childhood toy there. I want to stream thats not a antique !

 

[Pulsegleaner]

What realty gets to me is when I go into a Antique shop and see a childhood toy there. I want to stream thats not a antique !

How old are you? According to general consensus, and item only has to be more than 50 years old to be considered an antique. That means, if you old enough, any toys you played with as a child might count, barely.

By the way here are a few other "official" date cuttoffs that might be of use

50 years - how long a vegetable variety has to exist before it is considered a true "heirloom"

5,000 years (appx.) - age of an object before it is considered "prehistoric"

100,000 years- date before remains are considered fossils, whether they have actually been fossilized or not (that mummified duckbill dinosaur they have at the American Museum of Natural History is still considered a fossil)

And now a few of my own weird links

I have known the original American versions of these for ages "our school actually almost sang a version of the first one for Earth Day around fourth grade) but I never knew there were British ones (Now I can impress any UK friends net time we are singing by getting the right lyrics)

This one is an interesting one. Ages ago, when I was a child someone got me a two cassette set (which gives you some idea of how long ago we are talking about) of children's songs which had this on it, in this version. As it was the only one I had ever heard, I assume that THAT was the only version there was, and so was very surprised when decades later I heard the original Larry Verne version. In fact, until I found this video, I though maybe my belief that there HAD BEEN another version might have been a childhood delusion. I can only assume that the tapes I had were in fact British. Maybe my Grandparents got them for me on a trip, or we picked them up on that long and not all that pleasant vacation to Bermuda (it rained literally every day but one, so we never really got a chance to actually GO to any of the beaches) My parents were struggling to find things to keep very young me occupied (especially after the moped incident) and so the bought a LOT of kids books (which is why I am probably one of the few American kids who know what such characters as Noggin the Nog and Captain Pugwash are) Ah that trip, and it's weird memories ( going down to the front of the hotel each morning to pick a fresh banana off a full bunch they hung up outside for the guests, the grove of orange and grapefruit trees that surrounded the bungalow. The swimming pool that you had to be very careful to swim in because crabs kept wandering into it. The one day that it WAS sunny enough to go to the beach and when I almost broke my Dad's Swiss army knife (and sliced off my thumb) trying to pry a chiton off a rock (because it was the only thing close to a seashell I could find)

Incidentally (on the assumption that someone on this forum who lives in the Midwest to West might know some more about Native American traditions than I do, does "Bahika" actually MEAN anything? I've always wondered.

I suppose it is possible that we got the tapes of someone singing Disney songs then too ( as well as those one of English Folk songs) I really wish I could find a recording of THAT as some of those rendition were actually BETTER than the official ones (In particular there was a version of "Posh with a Capital P" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang that was light years better than the official one (or the Broadway one) The Guy who sang it could BELT.

 

[digitS']

Kemo Sabe? He tried that, following Custer. That probably indicates the era of the song and tv's Lone Ranger more than anything. I don't know about "Bahika."

A tomato variety that I can fairly successfully grow is Thessaloniki. It is an early, smaller beefsteak that is probably a good choice for other, semi-arid regions. The story on Thessaloniki is that it was a commercial variety brought to the US during the 1950's. It makes me wonder if I'm older than this "heirloom."

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

I was under impression Antique was 100 years or older, think it was latter dropped to 75 years.

 

[Nyboy]

Yep 100 years to be antique , vintage is much younger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antique

 

[digitS']

Is this the same Wikipedia that states, "The definition and use of the word heirloom to describe plants is fiercely debated."

Ha! For those in TEG discussions the phrase "fiercely debated" would not apply.

I suppose that there is some real value in agreed-upon definitions and maybe those who have a financial interest in a term had best insist on clarity. "Fierce" and "vegetables" don't seem very compatible terms to a backyard gardener. Besides, I like to think of myself as an ... oh now! Wait a minute!

Let's just say that I enjoy seeing the reflections of younger people, remembering the Olde Times.

Steve