"The Association": Best Song (2 Viewers)

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Along Comes Mary

Never My Love

Cherish

Windy

Goodbye Columbus

Everything That Touches You

 

[otb_lifer]

love their version of "Cherish" - better than the Partridge Family. 

ETA: it's close, tho ... ^

on the Spotty. 

 

[Leroy Hoard]

And Windy has stormy eyes
That flash at the sound of lies  

 

[otb_lifer]

And Windy has stormy eyes
That flash at the sound of lies  

Cowsills down?

 

[bushdocda]

Great stuff. 

 

[wikkidpissah]

lost my cherry after an Association concert at Stoughton Armory in the early spring of 1969. molested by a 2-yrs-older Sicilian girl in the stairwell of a walkout on a cool night in Holbrook MA. Never, My Love said i.............but i found a way thru.

 

[JaxBill]

oh I thought you were talking about this Association

 

[[scooter]]

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

Cover of the Joan Baez song, released as The Association's debut single in 1965. The single flopped, but the song remained a part of their live act.

In April 1968, The Association happened to be the opening act for The Yardbirds for one of the shows on their final tour. I'm sure their guitarist heard The Association play this song that night.

 

[rockaction]

"Never My Love" and I don't think it's particularly close for me. 

 

[Eephus]

I like this cover of Jimmy Webb's P.F. Sloan, corny narration and all.  The vocal harmonies and busy percussion track work really well.

The Association originally commissioned Webb to write MacArthur Park for them but never recorded it because it was too long.

 

[Mookie Gizzy]

Everyone knows it’s Windy

 

[Pip's Invitation]

The version of Along Comes Mary that they played at the Monterey Pop Festival unexpectedly rocks the eff out. 

 

[Zegras11]

Everyone knows it’s Windy

Damn.... just came in here to post this.