Who remembers "Society's Child"?

[rug]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hu4f6j32IQ

[Swede]

1. Oh yeah.

Here's At Seventeen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClgfwBMsB1w

I learned the truth at seventeen
That love was meant for beauty queens
And high school girls with clear skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired
The valentines I never knew
The Friday night charades of youth
Were spent on one more beautiful
At seventeen I learned the truth...

And those of us with ravaged faces
Lacking in the social graces
Desperately remained at home
Inventing lovers on the phone
Who called to say "come dance with me"
And murmured vague obscenities
It isn't all it seems at seventeen...

A brown eyed girl in hand me downs
Whose name I never could pronounce
Said: "Pity please the ones who serve
They only get what they deserve"
The rich relationed hometown queen
Marries into what she needs
With a guarantee of company
And haven for the elderly...

So remember those who win the game
Lose the love they sought to gain
In debitures of quality and dubious integrity
Their small-town eyes will gape at you
In dull surprise when payment due
Exceeds accounts received at seventeen...

To those of us who knew the pain
Of valentines that never came
And those whose names were never called
When choosing sides for basketball
It was long ago and far away
the world was younger than today
when dreams were all they gave for free
to ugly duckling girls like me...

We all play the game, and when we dare
We cheat ourselves at solitaire
Inventing lovers on the phone
Repenting other lives unknown
That call and say: "Come on, dance with me"
And murmur vague obscenities
At ugly girls like me, at seventeen...

[tigereye]

2. she's great, isn't she?

saw her here a few years ago in a small venue. Lovely and funny and very talented.

[abq e streeter]

3. I remember it being banned from WLS in Chicago

(not the only thing they banned either; Eve of Destruction comes to mind as another one. Great station for the most part but run by right wing jackasses) WCFL; ( CFL: Chicago Federation of Labor) played em all though. Society's Child was a beautiful song . Was, if not a big hit, a medium sized one , if I remember correctly( reaching back almost 42 years during which a lot of memory cells sacrificed themselves for my amusement) and especially remember hearing it on WOKY from Milwaukee during my summer ('67) at the Hull House Art and Music Camp, a progressive and very integrated summer camp in southern Wisconsin, with mostly Chicago -area teenagers. Had a black girlfriend there and it meant a lot to us to have a song about interracial teen romance on the radio, although in the liberal cocoon of that camp, nobody gave interracial pairings a second thought. Thanks for posting, its bringing back a flood of wonderful memories.