They will never make great music like this again! These guys belonged in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but were never recognized for their mind-blowing talent!
They are fantastic, look so well turned-out for their perfomance and loved the live singing. Jim Yester's voice is outstanding. I do wish the hats would go, though.
I liked the Mike Douglas show and the Association. These guys sounded great on this show. Just like always. What a live act, not just in the studio. Mike Douglas was sincere and funny and he had a very nice voice.
@@computerboy2k All I saw was "Along Comes Mary" on the outtakes DVD, and "Along Comes Mary" and "Windy" on the CD. So many other bands and performances weren't recorded at all. Lost and never to happen again.
Two years after this aired I (was in a group that) traded sets with them (we played a set, they played a set, we played another set, they played another set) and shared a dressing trailer-Chicagofest. I got to know them a bit, especially Terry and the keyboard player (different from this one it seems, but I can’t say for sure) and also a frustrated groupie named Thomasina (as in the Disney movie, which is why I remember). Just before going on and opening with “Along Comes Mary, they lit a joint and offered me a hit (I declined). In 1983 they played their sixties hits-or at least mostly their sixties hits-and it wasn’t clear to me if they were aiming for a big-time come-back or not (It didn’t seem polite to ask). Whether they were still in 1983, this show makes it clear they were in 1981, so that’s an old lingering question finally answered.Thanks.
Yes, Jim has one of the greatest heads of hair of rock musicians along with fellow bandmates Terry Kirkman, Russ Giguere and Justin Hayward, Sir Ringo Starr, Mark Volman, Graham Nash and Dennis Drew.
I grew up listening 2 there music and c them back in the 60's they don't make good music like the association I've got there greatest hits d and play it alot
Whenever Mike Douglas had a band on his show, he would ask the band members who they were and where they were from. When The Turtles appeared on his old Philadelphia show back during the 1960s, he also asked each guy how old they were. Lead singer Howard Kaylan replied by asking Mike, “How old are YOU, Mike?” Mr. Douglas declined to answer Howard Kalyan’s question. At least, Mike Douglas refrained from asking the guys in The Association that same rude question. By the way, the guys sounded fantastic on that performance of “Along Comes Mary.”
awful song. The songs they recorded in the 1980s were pretty bad and I believe they were all written by outside writers. What a shame, since Kirkman, Yester and Alexander were all great songwriters.
There are not words to describe the incredible talent and sound of The Association in their prime - and it was a long stretch of "prime". What's left of the band today is still first rate. But Mike Douglas was a consistently clueless ding dong for his entire run.
I always enjoyed watching “The Mike Douglas Show.” Mr. Douglas had quite a few rock & roll bands on his show. He also had this little boy named Mason Reese, who did a ton of tv commercials during the 1970s, on his Philadelphia-based show very frequently. I once saw Mason Reese walking with crutches near Carnegie Hall years later, but I digress. However, I remember when Mike Douglas complained about the over-commercialization of Christmas, with people trying to make a buck during the Yuletide season. So, when Mr. Douglas (born Michael Delaney Dodd) recorded a song entitled, “Christmas is the Birthday of the Baby, Jesus,” or some such title, he was asked what he would do with the profits from the song, and Mr. Douglas had to acknowledge that HE was keeping them for himself. Oh, well....
