The Association - Along Comes Mary

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

I grew up in this era. I will take my age and my memories of those times over being young today.

[@susanheston4483]

You're right, I wouldn't want to be young now. The 60's and 70's were great.

[@mudhens4ever]

Same!

[@HenryFrederick]

I was 4 years old and now I'm 62. Life goes by faster than we realize. We have the music to remind us of the various stages of our lives...

[@generator6946]

Ah yes. 1966. The last beautiful summer of youth. I would be in Fort Polk in October …

[@mikejohn0088]

and in the jungle by January = chosen sacrifices. Me 2 brother, me too but we came back. Shalom bro!

[@mikebassplayer5489]

@@mikejohn0088 Ft Polk got a lot of us, Orders for Nam but M113A1 on standby for Israel only a few knew. I ETS'd before the Yom Kippur War.

[@robertsmolarek7671]

The best era for music ever!

[@thetreeoflife6018]

I was 5 years old in 66 and this was on the radio , the 60’s became a part of my DNA Which explains my trip through the 70’s…….

[@newportdave1872]

If you remember the 60s you weren't there.

[@ralphh.2200]

Classy arrangement for 1966.

[@mikejohn0088]

1966 a year I'll never forget doing the 69 in my 63 Fairlane on Friday nights.

[@chipcook5346]

An amazing song from an amazing band from my amazing childhood. I wonder if the guy dancing on the platform can be identified and found. He is the King of this event. I have that American thing of thinking that one only goes from strength to strength until you have a coronary in the bathroom at your grand-daughter's wedding reception. Or maybe it's better just to let the past be the past....

[@calleaeste]

In the hit parade of difficult karaoke songs, this has to be near the top

[@Locktwiste72]

The top, you mean

[@mojavewolf]

Yes. This has to be the hardest set of lyrics not only to memorize but to sing coherently.

[@THEATREofPAIN270]

Everybody says that. It's not difficult at all. I've been singing along to this for about 40 yrs or so lol. And it's a great tune to sing 🎶 ✌️😎

[@bethweeks5943]

Great observation - even when you know the words, it’s hard to speak or sing them that fast. I only knew the words because they were once printed - I believe it was in the Sunday newspaper magazine.

[@chipcook5346]

Yeah. You get strep throat, and suddenly that lovely falsetto that carried you through these songs is gone forever. I miss that octave and a half like nobody's business.

[@kenrooke9047]

Can’t count how many times I have watched this. I’m hooked on the time frame,the lyrics,reminiscing about my youth and wondering where these people are today. What was then the 60-70s finds me in my 70s. Groovy eh?

[@randallalan4221]

I was 9 years old when this song came out...liked it then, like it now and will always like it!

[@kenrooke9047]

@@randallalan4221 i was 13. We had so much to choose from not like today. This is one of my favourites 👍

[@paulvd2815]

This form of dancing those years is worth a study 😂

[@FRANKSNAKE71]

14 and loving life while listening to this on WLS radio. Best era to be a teenager for sure😄🎶🎸🎼

[@sardu55]

11 Bang-bang

[@darryljett1]

I was born in Feb 1966 an awesome year with great music : )

[@JoeLove-yy1yp]

65

[@JStarStar00]

It was the end of the world as we knew it, and we felt fine ... in 1967.

[@gonzalosalvatierra3932]

My dad was 10 years old when this video was going on in 1966

[@MarkO45839]

Me too.

[@susanheston4483]

I was 8, my brother graduated in 66. Had all this great music playing.

[@chrishansen9357]

so was I

[@blackrhino3442]

Third grade we had a record player with six plug in headphones. This was one of our records.

[@mikejohn0088]

They wanted you to question about the meaning. Along comes MARY (jane) who will make you full of fun! Enjoy!

[@jamesfox2579]

One of my all-time faves!

[@paulinmt2185]

Undercover drug songs. Gotta love the 60's.

[@mikejohn0088]

YA, those RXs were sure wonderful and free in Nam!

[@sardu55]

That's what the urban legend was, but everyone in the band said it was about a girl named Mary. The writer, the undercover mysterious 60s songwriter, also said it was about a girl, one who had dumped him hard in high school.

[@benhallums3230]

THE ASSOCIATION's "Along Comes Mary" Hits THE HOT 40 Billboard Chart for the 1st Time on 6/25/1966 for 8 Weeks at No. 7 on Valiant Records (WARNER BROS.-WB.)

[@MichaelHartman-qt4mp]

The Association were signed up to Valiant Records for their first two albums (Along Comes Mary is from their first album). They were signed up to Warner Bros. Records beginning with their third album (Insight Out, which includes the hit song 🎵 Windy).

[@ProfessorKenneth]

The bird at 1:47 is beautiful. This is a great song by a great band.👍🏻

[@JoeLove-yy1yp]

2 08 is hotter

[@ProfessorKenneth]

​@@JoeLove-yy1ypdef mate 👍🏻

[@dougamundson6836]

My brother had their 'Greatest Hits' album. I played it. Lots. Damn!

[@Thomass7586]

Mary has left the building 😂

[@Bruce15485]

Fantastic track ! Amazing lead flute ! Got to be one of the first !

[@lDematteo-nyy]

Sweet punch ❤punch

[@katesdad0]

Just think, the blonde heartbreaker at 1:17 is probably about 70 now !!

[@berzerker1100]

Oh heck yeah ! She's a beauty 😍 💃💜💙💚💞

[@MarkO45839]

At least 70, maybe a little older.

[@kevinkenny6975]

More like 80.

[@Halad49]

Everybody, sing along! if you dare... Every time I think that I'm the only one who's lonely Someone calls on me And every now and then I spend my time in rhyme and verse And curse those faults in me And then along comes Mary And does she want to give me kicks , and be my steady chick And give me pick of memories Or maybe rather gather tales of all the fails and tribulations No one ever sees When we met I was sure out to lunch Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch When vague desire is the fire in the eyes of chicks Whose sickness is the games they play And when the masquerade is played and neighbor folks make jokes As who is most to blame today And then along comes Mary And does she want to set them free, and let them see reality From where she got her name And will they struggle much when told that such a tender touch as hers Will make them not the same When we met I was sure out to lunch Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch And when the morning of the warning's passed, the gassed And flaccid kids are flung across the stars The psychodramas and the traumas gone The songs are left unsung and hung upon the scars And then along comes Mary And does she want to see the stains, the dead remains of all the pains She left the night before Or will their waking eyes reflect the lies, and make them Realize their urgent cry for sight no more When we met I was sure out to lunch Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch

[@chrismedford2819]

Thanks for the lyrics to one of my fave songs! Sang loud and proud! 🤘

[@Halad49]

Enjoy! Feel young again!

[@tantraman10]

HAVE sung along, countless times!!! GREAT LYRICS!!

[@zanti4132]

Yep, those were the lyrics all right. They were pretty cryptic and spinning by too fast to be understood, which was a good way to sneak the single past the station censors to get radio play. But, hey, the song had a good beat, and you could dance to it.

[@veronicasponchia5838]

If only Mary was that good. Love from Canada, it's legal and not all that

[@gwiyomikim5988]

Man, this dancin’ is happenin’ !!

[@victorjohnson7512]

Real boys and girls without nose rings and tattoos.

[@mikejohn0088]

Taught morals, ethics, pride in self, hard work, self respect and for others and that there are NO free lunches. Now Karl Marx and crew reversed it all but few see it but they will soon.

[@TheBeatle49]

These kids have rhythm!

[@stevensilverstein9897]

1776, Shenandoah, etc. true Broadway star. Then add in E.R. and Northern Exposure on TV. One of the most amazing petformers.

[@billm4330]

That's exactly how those teenage girls dressed when they went to school...proud of how they looked. Not today.

[@user-tn9gw9cs9r]

I attended Your Live 'Colina del Sol' San Diego Concert on Halloween. It is a wonder we are all still alive. I remember 'Cherish' and 'Never My Love' & 'Windy'.

[@davidlincolnbrooks]

What an incredible record this is... Lot of musically sophisticated things going on here. I challenge any cover band to play this verbatim.

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

Written by Tanden Almer. It was about Marijuana

[@kennethmacdonald8561]

Agree. Feel sorry for kids today. 60s the best

[@user-mo6tz6oh9i]

Along comes Mary Jane, he means. LOL!

[@user-il5oq5df6l]

Mary Jane was a popular nickname for marijuana.

[@Holly1960-]

The weed buzz was better than Alcohol buzz

[@erinkayeozga9947]

Those were days AB

[@raymondstern9046]

Perfect song for 4/20 as this meant to describe Marijuana

[@ohheybob4618]

Wow! Now I know why I can't dance, its hereditary!!! 😄 Love the music and all good music.

[@berzerker1100]

Maybe after a few cocktails 🍸 will I attempt to "cut a Rug" ?💃😁👊💪🥴😫

[@angelacedeno7962]

Beautiful song !!!

[@ryanmcbride4619]

Fuck yes....chicks be groovin’

[@Joseph-eu6jp]

I was watching them dance with the sound turned completely down, without the music they look so funny the way the are dancing, moving, when I turned the volume up then the way they were dancing to the music looked like it made sense.

[@papajay111]

I just fricken love this 60s CIA music!!

[@donnabaardsen5372]

What? "CIA music?"

[@marblox9300]

@@donnabaardsen5372 The Central Intelligence Agency - you know like the KGB.

[@papajay111]

@donnabaardsen5372 I know,, it is SHOCKING!! But guys like Zappa, Jim Morrison and more were all brought up and then promoted by the CIA!

[@FRANKSNAKE71]

@@donnabaardsen5372Cray-Cray comment😂😂Conspiracy theorists even on YT videos🤣🤣🤣

[@FRANKSNAKE71]

@@papajay111You did a lot of drugs in the sixties huh?

[@videotimesss1]

What! No tats and nose rings! How on Earth did they ever have fun?? We were human!! Not living billboards.

[@ObamAmerican48]

Seems like the guys were into dancing and the chicks weren't quite sure what to do. That's odd, this is a great song for dance. It's a great song in every way.

[@highplainsdrafter595]

Perhaps it was a bit new style and they were getting familiar with it. The guy on the pedestal was really good, which kinda lead our eyes to your view that the guy(s) were getting it better. And to think some in that crowd may have died months / years later in a distant swamp because LBJ didn't have the wisdom to get outtta 'Nam and Nixon couldn't get real either.

[@MarkO45839]

I kind of wondered if the video did not go with the audio.

[@billluchterhand9176]

this has to be american bandstand on saturday morning on cbs.

[@AdrianDeVore]

Bill Luchterhand It was actually on ABC!

[@julienjulien]

0:34 cool dance

[@gretagarbo9788]

That's Buddy Schwimmer.

[@highplainsdrafter595]

@@gretagarbo9788 I prefer the technique of the guy on the pedestal at the beginning and end.

[@theScytheofGod]

Goddamned.

[@cherylanntessier6385]

LOVE

[@shauncampbell969]

Get it. !!!

[@XaviPenido]

Every time I think that I'm The only one who's lonely someone Calls on me And every now and then I spend My time at rhyme and verse and curse those Faults in me And then along comes Mary Mary, Mary Then along comes Mary Mary, Mary And does she want to give me kicks And be my steady chick and give me pick Of memories? Or maybe rather gather tales from all the Fails and tribulations no one Ever sees? When we met I was sure out to lunch Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch Sweet as the punch When vague desire is the fire in The eyes of chicks whose sickness is the Games they play And when the masquerade is played and neighbor Folks make jokes as who is most to Blame today And then along comes Mary Mary, Mary Then along comes Mary Mary, Mary And does she want to…

[@kirkbenefiel8920]

Mary Jane was my steady. She spoiled me to reality. It took a long time getting over her!

[@edward2448]

I'm sure I saw this episode

[@marymerrill433]

Yup that's the truth.

[@jojosfunkythreads]

Your gramma or grandpa or mom might be dancing in this vid. Who knows?

[@mikejohn0088]

From their chairs.

[@tonystephens6858]

That's my mom at 0:45.

[@larryro8872]

It must be great t to see her on this, I hope she is still living and was able to see it too.

[@michniewicz79]

A song about pot

[@highplainsdrafter595]

So say you and a few others, but ask the band and they'll say no. And may think you're full of crap.

[@alphacentauri8083]

So the take away here is ample head bobbing and lateral head movement combined with serpentine like body gyrating. I will be deploying these moves during my next mosh-pit experience.

[@user-qq3lw4wl2l]

Maryとは ----わたしの脳裏には ドラッグ と刻みこまれております~~---

[@lunamystkilebeltane5496]

Mary must have got to the girl sitting down and He is wanting to dance LOL

[@dannysmith2139]

yes mary got her and so did tom

[@timpowers4449]

Observe in 1967. Not one obese teenager. Well done Boomers!

[@liveoak144]

these were your parents!

[@mikejohn0088]

with your conception in the back seats of a 1972 Chevy.

[@davidfurino2987]

Ha Maryjane aloha

[@Holly1960-]

Mary Jane was a better buzz than the Punch !

[@randysallade9468]

Some of these clips of the dancing is reminiscent of the herds of zombies walking into town!

[@josephkolozi9364]

Theo best song by far. It actually has good lyrics too.I think it was actually a classical composer who wrote it.

[@davidlincolnbrooks]

Tandyn Almer

[@donnafromt2852]

1.45 (:

[@kerranderson4757]

The song was baned in the UK do you know why..... 🤔🤔🤔

[@JeeJayMusic]

Many people interpreted this as a paean to marijuana, which is also known as "Mary Jane." They were probably right. Singing about drugs was a good way to get banned on the radio back in the 60s. The song was obviously about marijuana. But there are also interpretations that make a reference to Mother Mary and mention a Christian background. But that is probably rather unlikely.

[@davidlincolnbrooks]

"Mary" = marijuana ?

[@christinopessoa2145]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@chrisyonts9652]

01:31 Jan dancing with Marcia's castoff?

[@Nigelrathbone1]

Why did people start to avoid eye contact while dancing together? It seems so odd.

[@TopHotDog]

2024: old men and women😂

[@lewiscarey1593]

And to think I was in GRADE 4!!!!😂😂😂

[@MarkMphonoman]

Wow, my generation. Seems so weird now.

[@samson9535]

Most of these young people can't dance worth a crap. I keep thinking of the Peanuts character, Pig Pen, dancing in the Charlie Brown Christmas special.

[@kazitude1]

Turn the sound off and human beings look pretty silly😂

[@horacechit5042]

Random nasty comment, for no particular reason. NYYYYAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!

[@RogerPeet]

2 many white people dancing white people dances

[@buffybrown1619]

Some of the worst dancing ever.

[@user-ok7qr6oy4j]

no diversity maga