I Dig Rock and Roll Music - Peter, Paul & Mary (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
I Dig Rock and Roll Music (Peter, Paul & Mary, 1967). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2023-01-05. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"
"I Dig Rock and Roll Music," written by Dave Dixon, James Mason and Paul Stookey, was Peter, Paul & Mary's ninth top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, hitting no. 9 in 1967 (Whitburn, 2013). "In an interview with the Chicago Daily News in 1966, a year before the song's appearance . . . Mary Travers, had said of rock, 'it's so badly written. ... When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers'" (ultimatepopculture.fandom, 2023). The writers of the song mock the Mama's and Papa's lyrics, the Beatles interest in money, while exaggerating Donovan's and the Beatles' musical stylings. In essence, they were making fun of the genre (lyricinterpretations, 2012).
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Lyrics:
I dig Rock and Roll music
And I love to get the chance to play. (and sing it)
I figure it's about the happiest sound goin' down today.
The message may not move me,
Or mean a great deal to me,
But hey! it feels so groovy to say:
I dig the Mamas and the Papas at "The Trip,"
Sunset Strip in L.A.
And they got a good thing goin'
When the words don't get in the way.
And when they're really wailing,
Michelle and Cass are sailin'.
Hey! they really nail me to the wall.
I dig Donovan in a dream-like, tripped out way
His crystal images tell you 'bout a brighter day
And when the Beatles tell you
They've got a word "love" to sell you
They mean exactly what they say
I dig Rock and Roll music
I could really get it on in that scene.
I think I could say somethin' if you know what I mean
But if I really say it, the radio won't play it
Unless I lay it between the lines!
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