There is some play on the radio these days about this being the 40th anniversary of 1968, the year that’s considered seminal for boomers, I’m told. I enjoyed my 19th birthday in 1968, in London, one of several ground zeros of the time. In my fading memory, 1968 and 1969 merge, and so I give no apologies for using a February 1969 recording to celebrate the anniversary.
I chose “Half As Nice” because (a) we sometimes forget, amid our memories of the turbulent, sexual, chaotic, political late-’60s, that this was the heyday of the classic 3 minute pop song; (b) because it was one of my favourite tunes of the period; and (c) because I always had a fancy I looked a bit like Andy Fairweather-Low in those days, and seeing him look so young in this recording gives me a nostalgic glow.
Credit to YouTube as always.
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