Favorite Song - Bay City Rollers

[Booberdawg]

Poll question: Favorite Song - Bay City Rollers

Digging through old CD's and just found this. OLD - Released in 1977

[Boudicea]

1. Booberdawg: consider purging!

[Booberdawg]

3. LOL! I know, ;-)

on edit: I'm sorting through things to pack - I have worse. :evilgrin:

[arcane1]

2. this was actually a tough call!

though I picked "yesterday's"

though wasn't that written by Angus Young's brother and that other guy?

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. they had more than one song?

I was but a wee lad when Saturday Night was out... that's the only one i ever heard.

[xJlM]

5. I didn't know they had more than one!

:)

[Booberdawg]

6. This is their Greatest Hits!! LOL!

Oh fuck what can I say, I was young and in lust at the time.:shrug:

[arcane1]

7. I think I had that one too

with their zoomed-in faces on the cover?

too much info :-)

[Booberdawg]

8. Yes, that's the one. 4 young punk faces on the cover ;-)

[SiouxJ]

9. I had to go with Saturday Night

I mean come on! I played the damn 45 to death when I was a kid! I can still see the cover - them all dressed in their trademark tartan. Fun poll!

[arwalden]

10. I Loved Them... Weren't They Cute?

[Booberdawg]

11. Ah yes, baby faces!

[SiouxJ]

12. Yes they "were" but . . .

I saw them on some update documentary (I was on a plane going to Europe and there wasn't much else on :-) ) and the cute blonde one (forget his name) well, he's completely bald now. Not that bald men aren't cute, but it was a rather shocking change, not having seen them since back in the day.

[gratuitous]

13. A book you'll find on the remainder rack

"Bye Bye Baby, My Tragic Love Affair with the Bay City Rollers" by Caroline Sullivan. In the late 1970s, a kid from Joisey who was captured by the Rollers' hard-to-define charms. She and her buddies styled themselves the Tacky Tartan Tarts and shadowed the Rollers from their heyday to the inevitable end, playing county fairs.

Funny, poignant, sad and an incredible memoir of a time in my life probably best left forgotten. I'm the exact same age as the author and identified with many of the things she was going through in small town New Jersey. It's just that I was a boy in small town Oregon without access to the high-powered center of western culture that is (or was) New York.

I got my copy for three bucks, but I saw it last weekend going for a dollar a throw. If I were Joe Bob, I'd say, "Check it out."