1972 Songs Top Ten: Garden Party (#2)

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It’s been a lot of fun going back 50 years to some of these great songs, and I hope you’ve enjoyed the ride with me. Some of the music from any era sounds incredibly dated, but so many of these songs sound good today just as they did in 1972. Here’s another one of those songs. #2: Garden Party - Rick Nelson It’s a true story. Rick Nelson played at an “oldies” show at Madison Square Garden in October 1971 and he was booed for singing “a song about a honky tonk” (in his case, a country music version of “Honky Tonk Women”). The experience left him with a bad taste in his mouth, to the point where he proclaimed at the end of the song, “If memories are all I sang I’d rather drive a truck” (a reference to Elvis’ job before singing). This became a big hit in pop and country, and assured that memories weren’t all Nelson had to sing for the rest of his life, which was cut short on New Year’s Eve 1985 in a plane crash. Memories are all we have. Garden Party Written by Rick Nelson Recorded by Rick Nelson From Garden Party, 1972 (Today’s 1982 song: “Steppin’ Out”) Out stepped Johnny B. Goode: