40-year reunion of 'Mill Valley' third-graders. Anyone remember that song?

[Liberal_in_LA]

I liked that song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-YaWE0zu-c

40-year reunion of 'Mill Valley' third-graders
Joel Selvin, Chronicle Senior Pop Music Correspondent

Monday, August 9, 2010

A half-dozen middle-aged men and women adjusted their glasses and looked up at the television in Judy Berman's living room. Watching themselves as 8-year-olds in a promotional film shot 40 years ago by a young Francis Ford Coppola, they were celebrating the anniversary of a flukey hit record that painted the town of Mill Valley as an idyllic haven "where people aren't afraid to smile, and stop and talk to you a while."

"Mill Valley" by Miss Abrams and the Strawberry Point Third Grade Class introduced the sylvan Marin County community to the national consciousness in those innocent post-hippie, pre-Watergate days, as much an idea as an actual geographic location. Coppola, a little known director two years away from making "The Godfather," shot the film for Warner Bros. Records when the town was all but a little village in the woods.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/09/MNOV1EP0CK.DTL#ixzz0wFuRkXXa

[femmocrat]

1. Yes, I remember it.

I did not know that it was filmed by Francis Ford Coppula though.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. Off course I remember it. I lived there. What a great town.

Hot tubs and Peacock feathers, Cocaine and Tennis. Those were the days!

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. Glad others remember it

[AmericaIsGreat]

3. I grew up in Mill Valley/Strawberry

Kicked ass. Never heard this song before.

[Brother Buzz]

4. I grew up in Mill Valley

That song splashed the month I graduated high school. Hey, that must be why my class is celebrating our 40th class reunion this month.




Cyra McFadden, mentioned in the article, was my neighbor.

[zazen]

5. I'm sorry--that's just heartbreaking

I watched the video, and all of the innocent trust and hope, and. well, I'm on the East Coast here and going to bed. I wasn't much younger than these folks and I remember all of the idealistic hippies frequenting our house (we lived in southeastern university towns), and my late stepmother's work at and belief in TVA solar energy, and I just want to cry. They never pictured that we'd have the future we have. Yes, we've been privileged, but they really believed we'd be smart enough to not continue down the dumb path they foresaw so clearly 40 years ago. And as I see the futility of their hopes, I simultaneously wonder about everything I'm projecting onto my kids and the next generation--thinking, well of course, they'll figure it out. They'll get the world out of this mess. But ultimately, I'm just as goofy as the woman in ponytails and a gingham maxi-dress.

I really need to meditate because right now I see us as so totally, totally fucked.

Thanks for the link. Seriously.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. sorry to bring you down.

[XemaSab]

8. I went to high school there

I breezed through there a couple weeks ago, and I decided to stop for a beer at the 2AM Club ('cause I was underage when I left).

I got my beer, and I went to go get in the car and leave and I saw a cop sitting across the street. I got all paranoid, so I hung out on the tailgate for a while and surfed the 'net while keeping an eye on the man.

The dude parked in front of me came out and got in his car, and sure enough, the cop took off after him.

Mill Valley cops never change. :D