#ThirtyDaySongChallenge #NowPlaying #60sPop

Day 18: A song from the year you were born

"Difference" - #Mama Cass (1970)

Being born in 1970 meant that any authentic 60’s counterculture that was still around during my childhood had to be understood through the depressively distorting, earth-toned lens that was the 70’s. But that doesn't mean these lingering bits were horrible. In fact, I'm drawn to those sometimes desperate, often exploitative, end-of-hippie relics more often than to the OG Summer of Love stuff itself. Like this little song here: written by b-movie soundtrack composer Charles Fox for the (H.R.) #PufnStuf film, it's #CassElliot playing Witch Hazel singing lyrics that still make a lot of sense today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7rAaYFFeZk

I love a good #garden #toad, but this guy is straight out of some of my nightmares. I think I blame H.R. #Pufnstuf. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/20/toadzilla-cane-toad-australia/