How is the air up there...?

recordwatch · 2012-03-29 06:51:10

I came across this track while I was coming home from work and listening to the radio a few days ago. I seem to remember the Bangles doing a cover of this back in the early 1980's, but had no idea the song actually comes from the mid 1960's, and this version is worth a listen. The Band: The La De Da's Track: How is the air…

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I came across this track while I was coming home from work and listening to the radio a few days ago. I seem to remember the Bangles doing a cover of this back in the early 1980's, but had no idea the song actually comes from the mid 1960's, and this version is worth a listen.

The Band: The La De Da's
Track: How is the air up there?
Year: 1966

The band was from New Zealand.

The video.....

... is, to say the least, unique for the time period.

I'll let the boards judge it merits!

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#2 29-03-2012 09:37AM

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What's unique about it for the time period?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQHRoWtk8tA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLvBpnaVHE8

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#3 31-03-2012 06:23AM

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... Well said the spider to the fly, "Where were you in 1966"?

And the fly flew around to the spider and said ".. I think, I think I was in a lower state of entropy and was not to be found anywhere"!

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