Friday, July 26, 2019

“Crystal Blue Persuasion” #2 7/26/1969

The seventh Top 10 record from Tommy James and the Shondells, like their previous “Sweet Cherry Wine,” was influenced by Tommy’s rediscovery of his Christian beliefs. He said it came from the Book of Revelation, though the words of the title weren’t necessarily in that order. Tommy said the band passed on Woodstock because they didn’t want to travel 6,000 miles from a working vacation in Hawaii to play at a New York pig farm. In hindsight he said that was a mistake. Duhhhh.


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