to be a junior in high school, and have the number one song in the country.

This is still a great song!

There's a very different, but good cover by Joe Cocker.

beat up metal desk in my room doing homework and stopping to sing along with that. Anyway, yeah..............

This just floors me that it was 50 years ago yet these things come up every day.

other up in the morning. When the song was hot, he’d park in front of my apartment and sing it at the top of his lungs. Guy had a great voice but it failed to impress my neighbors at seven in the AM! 😏

Odd how that happens. I think we have lived through some of the very best times and some of the very worst. The music though, now that was some of the best.

(In my mind, anyway)

I almost bought a T shirt I saw tecently that said:

"I thought it would take longer to get this old".

The awesomest.

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They actually had a pretty good playlist. The DJ's were nothing at all like Robin Williams, though.

I remember I walked a mile to the store to buy the record and they were sold out.
It was a long walk home.

and we said to each other, in all our 12 year old wisdom, "that sound is gonna be a big hit."

I always loved this song, even from when I was a kid. I had no idea that the singer, Alex Chilton, would become such a big part of my life as an adult, in particular his work with Big Star. It still amazes me that he was only 16 years old when he sang this.

Very cool!

When I was in college radio, I did a request show because I actually had a few listeners to my little night-time show.

Some guy called in one night and said "play 'Aero-plane'." I had to think fast, because this wasn't at all clear. Did he mean "Leaving on a Jet Plane"? The Jefferson Airplane? I wasn't sure what he was requesting, and he repeated, insistently, "play 'Aero-plane'." I still had no idea what song he was talking about, so I started asking questions - "do you mean 'Leaving on a Jet Plane'? Or a song by the Airplane?" I could NOT figure it out. And he finally said: "No! Aero-plane! You know, gimme a ticket for an Aero-plane"!

I swear, I've cracked people up with that story since 1972!

And he would sound completely different, sort of like a teenage kid!