As summer draws to a close this afternoon, I figured I'd offer one last tribute to the season. Bobby Goldsboro, the man behind such dreck as "See the Funny Little Clown" and "Honey," had his final Top 40 hit with a winsome look back at the loss of his virginity 10 years prior. I'm generally weirded out by deflowering songs, but this one was actually the best of his efforts. Which isn't saying all that much, but hey."Summer (The First Time)" was the first MILF anthem - "She was 31, I was 17" - and a far, far less icky one that Boomer Castleman's Elektra-complexioned "Judy Mae." Now, Millie Jackson did a far superior version of this song as the closer to her concept album Caught Up (a topic for another day, as she and the album deserve their own space), but I couldn't find a clip to post here. So we'll make do with Goldsboro's original, a perfectly competent story song with fewer forced rhymes than his usual and an arragement that nicely suggests the first hint of autumn winds taking the stickiness out of tense, anticipatory summer air.
2 comments:
Good ol' "Bobbly" -- LOL! I can't really share the enthusiasm for "S(TFT)" (julep/two lips? yeesh) but I have a weird memory of it being the answer to a trivia question at a music-triv session and I was the only one who knew it. I described it to a fellow player as a "smarmy Bobby Goldsboro tune about losing one's virginity", to which the other guy replied, with mock incredulity, "a smarmy Bobby Goldsboro song? NO! Really?"
However, I highly recommend his first hit, 1965's "Little Things", which sounds like early Neil Diamond.
Thx for the typo catch.
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