The one-hit wonder from John Fred and the Playboy Band reached the top of the US singles charts on this day in 1968, holding the number one spot for two weeks with their best known song, whose title is a mondegreen of the Beatles’ track “Lucy in the Sky” which Fred initially misheard. Although never achieving the same success as the lead from their sophomore album—performing well on international markets too with Argentinian singer Anthony Swete’s version of “Judy Disfrazada” among South America’s best-selling singles of the year, very much influenced by the British Invasion, the group hailing from Baton Rouge had a sizeable discography and were active for decades in the local music scene as session performers and openers.
synchronoptica
one year ago: Reagan’s second inaugural (with synchronopticรฆ), planetary alignment plus Trump’s second inaugural
twelve years ago: the Treaty with Respect to the Final Settlement on Germany plus psychoanalytic comics
thirteen years ago: tinkering with DNA, organic wine plus more yarn bombing
fourteen years ago: piracy and copyfight
fifteen years ago: regional rights
