the best songs ever

[Eric the Green]

This song was so beautiful, droll and spooky that I had to have it. It wasn't a big hit, so pretty soon the record stores in my neighborhood didn't have it, so I called around, and my friend and I rode all the way across town into the foothills to buy it. I guess that was part of my "sporting life." Later he had a big hit, but I didn't like it too much. It didn't, uh, eh eh eh turn me on. Ian Whitcomb and Bluesville: "This Sporting Life," early 1965.





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Comments on that "other" song, which Ian sang in falsetto all the way through:

Ahhhhh...I was 16 years-young in 1965 and remember this song so well and all the kids talking about it. The good ol' days. LOL!!

regina whitcomb 4 months ago
Ian thanks all of you for watching and commenting. You Turn Me On, of course, was just the beginning. Ian is still performing, writing, acting, and speaking. He's quite the renaissance man.

Susan Stewart 6 months ago
Omg! This goes way back. Love it!

Potawatomi13 4 months ago
This was SOOOOOO much fun to sing in the car!

William McAnally 1 year ago
I remember laughing whenever this song played on the radio. I was 10 years old then and thought it sounded kind of weird. It must have worried my parents.

stevewonderr 3 years ago
Ian the "Justin Beiber" of 1965?