Here's a little 70s cheese to sprinkle on your dinner. When I was little I thought they were saying, "Precious and few are the moments we toucans share," and I pictured Toucan Sam singing love songs to his girlfriend (Toucan Susie?) when he wasn't shilling for Froot Loops. Kids -- such fuckin' idiots.
Speaking of birds, what's that thing playing bass? Looks like the love child of Big Bird and John C. Reilly.
Climax lead singer Sonny Geraci, says Wikipedia, "Grew up in Cleveland [and] now lives in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, with his wife, Mary Lou, and four children."
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"And if I can't find my way back home, it just wouldn't be fair".
I never got that particular line. No, it's not that it wouldn't be FAIR, it's that you'd be a fucking IDIOT.
The bass player was a scream.
Thanks for this one.
"It's not that it wouldn't be fair, it's that you'd be a fucking IDIOT."
I just laughed very loudly and startled my child.
Good one, WW.
Are there any other lyrics?
WTF is wrong with his forehead and those pants. Christ the nightmares
Aww, what a sweet song! Toucan love always gets me *right here.*
What self-respecting band calls themselves "Climax" anyway? ;)
Good god. That's the gift of radio - you can imagine anything you want and don't have to know, until years later, how ridiculous the singer really looks singing this song in his oh-so-70s white deep v with the boss 2 ft long fringe, embroidered flower trim, and massively belled pants. oh, and that hair.
It's a wonder I came out of that era even remotely hetero...
oh, and anybody see those girl backup singers? oh, yeah, not the guys on stage with him, pretending to sing along...
I remember this. I liked it. I'm with Woodwoman, though. I always wondered where he was going to go that he wouldn't be able to find his way back home again.
I would guess that whoever wrote the lyrics really wanted to use the line, "Precious and few are the moments we two can share," and that the "And if I can't find my way back home, it just wouldn't be fair" part was the best rhyme they could come up with.
this was my PROM THEME!!!!
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this was my PROM THEME!!!!
Yeah, I'd have to be anonymous too to have admitted that...
Gotta love the 70s for the facial hair and the bell-bottoms alone.
This is (ahem) precious, Cary. Thanks!
Sure looks like a wild concert, with everyone sitting stock-straight in small-town-volunteer-fire-department-reception-hall-style folding chairs.
For some people a Climax is precious and few.
He lives in Chagrin Falls? Well, so might I if I had this one to live down for the rest of my life. And that isn't even starting on the rodope* clothing...
*wv
"He lives in Chagrin Falls? Well, so might I if I had this one to live down for the rest of my life."
Dude, you crack me the fuck up.
Maybe the dude got mugged and conked on the head, and that's why he can't find his way back home.
sadly, I know all the words. I also know 'Leavin on a Jet Plane' if you've like me to sing a few lines.
I thought 'Life in the Fastlane' was 'Fight for the Vaseline'
one more thing
is that Kid Rock's Dad on the keyboards?
What self-respecting band calls themselves "Climax" anyway? ;)
I remember another group that was some what decent called the Climax Blues Band. I now realize why they where blue. Because they weren't climax. That video is hilarious. Now I gotta hear "Seasons in the Sun".
As MtnMama said, I had nothing but an old radio picture in my head of this. I envisioned someone more along the lines of a lounge singer.
Eeeew.
There is an Ohio State Park in Chagrin Falls that is pretty cool. And if you only have to hear it every ten years or so, the song is ok. Not good, mind you, but ok.
Well, my mental picture of Chagrin Falls is of housing developments like 'Regret Mews' and 'Why The Fuck Did I Do That Manor' full of streets like Styx Boulevard, Bojangles Avenue and Rod McKuen Drive.
The Climax boys will be in the 'Precious But Few' rest home for regrettable one hit wonders. Joe Dolce will be next door telling everyone to 'Shaddup You Face' in a bad Italian accent.
Leonard Nimoy would live on Why Did I Endorse All Those Wacky Alien Conspiracy Books In The 1970s Road.
Cuba Gooding Jr has a shack on Poor Movie Choice Circle.
That sort of thing.
Actually Chagrin Falls is very exclusive Eastern Suburb of Cleveland. It has one of the best school systems in the country.
I actually have this song on my iPod Touch and I didn't know they live in CF! I might've stalked them before I moved.
Of course, that meant this west sider would have to set foot on the east side... (shudders)
my first apt was in a huge building. my neighbors on one side were a gay couple. nothing wrong with that. the thing that was wrong is they loved to screw while cranking this song. lucky me. my bedroom was right next to theirs and the rhythmic slamming of their bed against the wall will forever haunt me and soil this song. excuse me while i go throw up...
Bludger: HAHAHAHA!!!! Terrific!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks again, Cary, for letting me remember why I listened to 50's and 60's rock n roll for the entire 70's .... blecchh, almost as bad as Bread...
This could have been the opening scene of "The Wedding Singer" if it had been set in 1972...
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