Hi, I'm Sally Gordon of the Murmaids! Thanks for all your great comments. I have always been moved by the same comments from soldiers who were fighting in the Vietnam War, who also appreciated the innocence conveyed by us and the music. Please note that the group was re-formed many times with different combinations of singers, that's why you are seeing different people in the photographs here! The original group is the phone shown on the CD cover in yellow.
Hi Sally my name is Mike and I am 71 yrs old. This song came out when I was 11 years old and I remember it well as a boy living in Grand island Nebraska. Those were very happy times and now in the winter of life I listen to your song a lot because it stirs such happy memories. Thank you so much
Me, too! The good old days. Sitting on sofa in living room trying to find songs on my little transistor radio. The simple times. With the best music ever recorded. So many types of songs - no dominant type. Just fabulous music.
@@TheDonnalovesmusic you're absolutely right about that, the 60s and 70s and even the '80s had it all. Motown, the beatles, an instrumental, a reggae before we knew the word, The beach boys, and glen Campbell all in the same top 10 in the same week, with a Frank Sinatra and a Louis Armstrong thrown in for good measure, what a musical rainbow we had!
growing up when I did going into the military at 18, these young ladies made me feel I was going 2b fine + I was great song kudos 2 all of this group u made this military veteran confident what ever I had 2 do
As a 70 y.o,this song encapsulates our high school years of adolescence at its best. The lyrics and melody take you back to our days of innocence, no responsibility, letter jackets, and the only thing important was having a girlfriend or boyfriend. Ah, to be 16 years old again. Thank you Murmaids for giving us a taste of the years back then.
If you come up with that time machine please give me a shout, I've got to go back! Had a Long life, lots if good and great times and lots of not so good times. I'd give Anything to go back!! I recently found out while doing some ongoing searching for my first love when I was 14 and then 15. She would come in to visit her grandmother who lived down block from me. Although a very short time we spent over 2 summers I could Never Forget her!! Over my lifetime and having my own family I wkukd periodically think of her and over the recent years tried looking her up to no avail since her name wouldve changed. But about 5 months ago I tried again and for some strange and heartbreaking reason she must've guided me to her, for what j found was what I wished I wouldn't have! It was her obituary, she passed away 1 month before I finally found her. Heartbroken as I just wanted to see how she was and that she had a good life. Just to share stories and photos if even just by emails, just had to talk to her or contact her one more time as we drifted apart way back when, about 50 years ago and were too young to find each other and our lives moved onto separate paths. Just wanted to let her know I NEVER STOPPED,,, thinking about her! What I would do for that time machine right about now,,, . If I never wouldve found her as I wished I hadn't, in my mind she may still be here and at least the thought I still may find her and we could casually connect and fill that open void I was carrying for most my life. But now it's a long time past memory that will never be again. Sad!
I'm 45 years old. I sometimes wish I could've lived in these days. I'm not a big fan of today's world. Ppl seem to have sense back then and quality of life was better.
This song is the true embodiment of the age of innocence we were living in. The lyrics, the sweet voices and harmonies choke me up every time I hear it. I was 12 years old when this song was popular.
She was a junior. He was a senior. In the early part of the school year, he asked her to go steady. She said yes, and he placed his letter sweater around her shoulders. He played football. She cheered him on (even though he spent a lot of time on the bench). She loved that he was a great dancer. They rarely missed dances or sock hops. "Popsicles and Icicles" was *their* song. They would break up toward the end of the school year, and the letter sweater would go back into his wardrobe. Hearts mended, and they moved on with life. They are in their 70s now and still friends. Yes, just friends. But this song is still special to them. Not romantic; just special. She's so thankful to have lived in that era.
@@Squee_Dow Wow!! Thanks for sharing this. It means a lot to me at a moment when I’m feeling low. All the best to you both (and it’s great you’ve preserved your friendship). Sally Gordon
What a cool song! I am 70 and I remember the summer of 1963 when this tune came on KFRC SF Bay Area California. Wow...we all just loved this song...Thank You Murmaids...It's June 2020 and we need the great memories of the past. Who is with me? Peace & Love
@@fredmar6436 The discrepancy happened because the group recorded the song in the early summer of 1963. After the record came out of the factory, it was distributed to radio stations all over the country, and the decision was up to each station as to when they started playing it. This information came from one of the Murmaids (Sally) on another posting of this song, a few years ago.
I remember my friends brother had this 45rpm. I was 8 & loved it! He moved out 2 years later & left his 45's behind. Of course l asked my friend if l could have it. YES! Still have it at 69.
@@johnnyintrieri Thanks, But, the time machines were made to fit only one person i will buy you one though, Thank you very much for answering my funny comment.
@@johnnyintrieri Time only exists in Unreality. There is no time in Reality, all these songs exist with9ut time. Same for all seen and heard, all exist eternal. Go ahead and say any word. It has always existed eternal. Reality is all the same. No matter what sees it, it is the same. Check out Reality's playlists all music ever recorded INME "Absolute Perfect 500 late fifties" as a starter, and trillions of lists exist simultaneous, timeless, wordless, pure fun eternal.
The age of innocence and good feeling in America in spite of the strife that was existent I believe the human heart was in a better place than today for we now live in a debased society and that innocent time would be forever shattered in a few weeks come 11/22.
I guess we are all in the same boat. Same Age! I grew up listening these great 60's tunes on New York Radio, and Watching Dick Clark's, American Bandstand out of Philadelphia on a NY. TV Station. I Love Sally Gorden the lead singer. Great Voices for a Girl Group of 16 year olds... Nothing today can compare to the great music of the 60's....
Jo Htatt Same here I was 16 listening to this on Cousin Brucie Rock Radio WABC NY. I have commented on this song to Sally Gordon the Blond Singer , Now Sally Gordon Mark, and lives in Paris, and recently run into her on the internet...Her web page is sallygordonmark.com Check Her Out!
+Greg Maxwell Thanks for the comment, Greg. You are right, it did come way to fast. We just didn't realize how fortunate we were to be growing up in the 60's. Happy 'early' Birthday to you! I hope it's grand.
Thank you Sally Gordon and the Murmaids for your contribution during the Vietnam war era. I was 17 when my boyfriend left for Vietnam. We sent cassette tapes back and forth. And when my girlfriends and I got together I would pop in a cassette tape and let it play while we listened to the radio, sang, danced and just did what teenage girls do best -- talk talk talk. He later told me that sometimes he shared the tapes with the guys in his unit and it brought them such a feeling of home. That was a difficult time and the music brought us together.
I remember listening to this song with my grandmother shortly before she passed. I miss her. This beautiful song that she loved will always remind me of her.
Remember "Hey there little Red Riding Hood. You sure are lookin' good. Your everything a big, bad wolf could want."? (Sam the Sham) That's the song my grandmother and I listened to.
I play this song quite often as one of my favorites from my teen years. It still puts a lump in my throat as I recall those happy years, when music was music and we had people who could really sing. Many thanks for the memories. By the way I am 78 and thank God I lived back when these ladies and so many others afforded us such wonderful music!
Just turned 76 in 2024. I was 15 when this was released in 63 and I loved it deeply then for its own sake and for the fact that I had my first real girlfriend that year and we both loved it. By the way I'm surprised there's so many dudes commenting on here I thought I'd be a loner but I guess this thing transcends such things. And as regards your comment about singing beautifully, back then you actually had to be able to sing to call yourself a singer. Although eventually I would have to capitulate a bit because I began to like Bob Dylan around 1965 and then of course Rod Stewart who still can't sing with the shit but he sure has Soulful delivery. "If I listened long enough to you". Coincidentally that song was popular during the Carnage of my first marriage and will always remind me I'm listening to the lies of my then wife. Not wanting to believe. But I guess I'm rambling now, so adios.
@@Smedley1947You're not alone with those feelings. I just turned 79 on 14 March of 2024. I love listening to these three ladies sing. Their voices, music and dress are especially great to me. My five sisters came from the same Mold as these three ladies. Thank you girls for sharing your great talent.
I turned 64 on that same day and loved this song then and even more at this age 🎉 PS The number one Billboard hit the day I was born was another unique tune of that special period called Theme from A Summer Place, which I'm sure most everyone who likes Popsicles Icicles will know 🎉
@@herecomesforego1787 Oh yes. I remember sitting in my English class and a lot of my fellow students had a big discussion about The Theme From A Summer Place. I couldn't join in because I hadn't seen the movie yet. Good times back then.
I was 12 when this song came out, and there was this girl in my class who I was really crushing on. When I heard this song back then, I imagined her singing it about me. It never happened, but I still love the song. Thank you GurlGroops for posting, and God Bless Terry Fisher Siegal, the lead vocalist.
I was just a boy when this song came out. It brings back a lot of good memories! I'm only sorry that they didn't have more hits. Thank you Gurlgroups and Mermaids!
Transister radio days were awesome.silver dollar survey ,talked my mom to buy me one at goldblatts.the more transisters the cooler kid you were,im glad i was 60s kid.only 3 channels on t.v.
"Silver Dollar Survey"? Was that a radio show in your area? In mine, we had the "Million Dollar Weekend", where every other song they played had been a million seller. And, yes, only 3 channels on TV, and those 3 were enough.
I took a lot of ribbing from my teammates when I played high school football back in 1964.... This was my favorite song on the radio.... How macho was that?? lool I loved it then.... and 50 years later..... this old man still loves it... Thanks for the memory...
This song has long been a guilty pleasure for me too. It may not be a guy song, but it captures the sweetness and innocence of young love so nicely. I love it.
Maria Beltran--We loved this song in High School in Wilmington, DE. It was a hard song to dance to as I remember at our school dances. But it was a bright and uptempo song...Though Vietnam was our next thing after graduation if you didn't go to college. We still loved these bright Murmaids and their only hit song...
Maria Beltran; thank you for your kind comment. It was an innocent time--kind of like the Rockwell paintings of America...but President Kennedy was assassinated when I was a HIgh School sophomore. Then Vietnam started drafting our HIgh School seniors. I went to college while my neighborhood buddies were going to Vietnam. Soon some of those buddies weren't coming home. I quit college before my senior year and enlisted in the Marine Corps. The sweet innocence was soon lost forever for our generation. Maybe the reason this music is so powerful to me, for sure...I am sorry if I have said too much, especially after your warm comment...
Staring down in adoring awe at my 14 minute old blonde blue-eyed first grandchild, the prettiest little girl I had ever seen and what does this new Mimi do? She suddenly starts singing popsicles and icicles softly to this amazing miracle whose eyes opened, widened and fixed on her grandmother and never left, tii the song was over.... Now THAT'S a memory! What would we do without music, I cannot imagine what this life would be like without it and so grateful we don't have to!
I celebrated my first birthday in April, 1963 and I regret not being old enough to enjoy dating back in those days. Saturday nights were special when boy and girl shared a malt at the shop and enjoyed each other instead of texting, of course cell phones were not around then. Many of the electronic toys that have come out in the last 40 years have ruined dating and face to face interaction. How we regressed since that golden era.
From the earliest period when I can actually remember certain songs being on the radio. I would have been seven. My brother had the local AM top 40 station playing constantly, so I heard it all. I remember this well. It has a very wistful feeling. And written by David Gates, who knew.
Song released December 7th, 1963. It peaked at #3 and was on the Billboard Top Forty charts for 11 weeks. The Murmaids was a teen "girl group" from L.A., CA comprised of sisters Carol and Terry Fischer and friend, Sally Gordon. Song written and composed by David Gates, lead singer and songwriter of the group "Bread". Bread had its first hit "Make It With You" which peaked at #1 and was on the charts for 13 weeks. Song was released July 11th, 1970. Bread had a string of hits of which 12 made it to the top forty!!
Hi, I'm Sally Gordon, who sang the high part. How we ended up singing together is a funny story. Actually we weren't friends, despite what the publicity blurb that's always quoted. Terry and I were seniors in high school and sang in the choir. We had a mutual friend named Susie who called me one afternoon to ask if I would fill in for her at a recording session because her mother wanted her to stay home and do the ironing! I went in her place and met Carol for the first time. We sang back-up for Kim Fowley (you can find the song on UA-cam - it's called Astrology where I sing the solo) who liked our sound and introduced us to the woman who owned Chattahoochee Records who was looking for a girl group. She signed us. We recorded Popsicles and I went away to college in the fall. The song was released in the Spring of 1963 (not December) but nothing happened until a DJ in San Francisco promoted it and it became a hit in November, I think. When I went back to LA for Christmas vacation, we recorded an album, which stayed in a vault for a long, long time! None of us ever saw a penny from this hit! The group was re-formed several times with different combinations of singers.
I do so love that simple organ music. Organs were very popular at that time and would remain so for at least a decade. Remember Dave "baby" Cortez? He recorded Rinky Dink, Patricia, the Happy Organ and a bunch I don't remember because I didn't particularly care for them.
Such a bittersweet memory... a classic song and a trip down memory lane. Great melody, wonderful harmonies and lyrics that take me back to a time of innocence, new romance and first kisses.
Hello Sally Gordon. It's funny how some of the ole favorites pop in your head. From the first day I listened to your song, I knew I was hooked on "Rock "N roll" It pleases me that some of the mermaids are still around to speak about your songs. My reason I come back to this song would be a long story. In short, I was 9 years in 1963 when your song hit the K/MEN radio 1290 tune sheet. My father launched then the brand-new radio station in San Bernardino California. I soooo remember listening to your song during all of our family travel. This song owns a piece of my heart, and I can't help thinking of my most loved father driving our 1962 Green T-Bird. Best wishes to you all, Mark.
I was in 10th grade, living in New Mexico. One night I was tuning around on crackly old AM and heard a station on 1030. It was WBZ in frickin' Boston! Boston! Heard it again the next night and the next, too. Long distance calls were $$ then but I thought it would be cool to call the following night, let 'em know where I was calling from and request Popsicles and Icicles. My call was never made. The next day was November 22, 1963.
Oddly, this song just popped into my head. I must've been around 11-12 when it was released, and I always liked it. Even after all these years (50+), I still remembered all the words.
I heard this song yesterday on Sirius radio while driving and it reminded me of old year book, high school prom pictures. The girl in her evening dress with the puffy shoulder things, elbow length white gloves, orchid corsage and of course a bouffant hairdo. The guy in his white dinner jacket, straight leg slacks, carnation boutonnière and a flat top buzz haircut. One or both with thick horned-rim glasses, posing with big smiles for couples picture. Brings back memories of a much more innocent but great time to grow up. Thanks for the flashback memories Murmaids!
Murmaids you brought such gorgeous music into this world with your beautiful delicious talent. I am so very thankfull we have this treasure to listen to and to love thank you for this precious gift.
I was one year old when The Mermaids released Popsicles and Icicles and I thank God I got to grow up in this era. If you were born in the 50's through the 90's with all the golden classic music, movies and concerts and other events like picnics, YOU were blessed!
I always hear it as "Bright stars and, Gitarzan , drive-ins on Friday night." But of course, I know Ray Stevens didn't have his hit until about five years later.
God bless the girls from the 60's who enjoyed this music. Great makeout song. You went on to become the great women from 60's and 70's that produced great daughters and sons for today's world.
I don't know if there is such a thing as magic but if there is, then music must be magic. Nothing, but nothing can transport you back to a place and the time, and an actual feeling that can only be described as how you would feel at that time washes over you. Not Nostalgia from as you listen to it 60 years later, but the actual feeling of being in the middle of everything that was going on at the time, who you knew, who your friends were, what was going on in the world, going on at school, all of the other music at the time, what car you drove, what car other people drove in high school, every bit of detail seems to come from the widely spaced dispersed synapses in my brain all brought to bear in the singular moment of listening to a single song such as this; and it all happens automatically.
Now , I am not approved by any means having fully embraced the sixties as I was 19 in 1967 nor am I a religious man, though I do believe in a God of sorts, but I am shocked and appalled by much of today's culture. Compare these three girls singing live on a stage with a modern performance by a female singer or girl group with what amounts to a strip show with dry humping dancers and all manner of Over the Top explicit sexuality. As I said I am not a prude. But I don't believe the stage is the place for such things. One's own bedroom maybe, but not public displays.
@@fazbell I thought they were older, maybe mid 20s. But Terri and Sally had just graduated HS when they recorded this song, and Carol was still in school. Very young talent.
Hi, I'm Sally Gordon of the Murmaids! Thanks for all your great comments. I have always been moved by the same comments from soldiers who were fighting in the Vietnam War, who also appreciated the innocence conveyed by us and the music. Please note that the group was re-formed many times with different combinations of singers, that's why you are seeing different people in the photographs here! The original group is the phone shown on the CD cover in yellow.
Sally, which one are you in the photo?
Got to see you in Las Vegas a few years ago remember the song very well
A delightful song from back in the day... You should be proud :)
@@greglivingston538she is on the left; the other two are sisters.
Hi Sally my name is Mike and I am 71 yrs old. This song came out when I was 11 years old and I remember it well as a boy living in Grand island Nebraska. Those were very happy times and now in the winter of life I listen to your song a lot because it stirs such happy memories. Thank you so much
I am 31 but I know good music when i hear it. Amazing song
I've loved this song since my childhood I'm in my 70's now this type of music never gets old
I am an 80's teen, I heard this song years ago, very catchy.
I don't know why, but a huge wave of nostalgia washes over me when I hear this song.
Me, too! The good old days. Sitting on sofa in living room trying to find songs on my little transistor radio. The simple times. With the best music ever recorded. So many types of songs - no dominant type. Just fabulous music.
Nothing wrong with that, Robert.
@@TheDonnalovesmusic you're absolutely right about that, the 60s and 70s and even the '80s had it all. Motown, the beatles, an instrumental, a reggae before we knew the word, The beach boys, and glen Campbell all in the same top 10 in the same week, with a Frank Sinatra and a Louis Armstrong thrown in for good measure, what a musical rainbow we had!
I understand
Yes. Unique song...I feel like a young girl again....
Oh, memories in 2024. Wish there was a worm hole taht I could go back.
Wouldn't that be a blessing for many!
growing up when I did going into the military at 18, these young ladies made me feel I was going 2b fine + I was great song kudos 2 all of this group u made this military veteran confident what ever I had 2 do
Music has certainly helped me get thru some difficult times too. And thank u for ur service.
thank you for your service
everyone ur welcome again thnks 4 the very uplifting music, even today I am so blessed God blessed everyone, stay safe, stay strong + stay healthy
I remember my older sister singing this song as a child. The memory brings tears to my eyes. I love this song! ❤
As a 70 y.o,this song encapsulates our high school years of adolescence at its best. The lyrics and melody take you back to our days of innocence, no responsibility, letter jackets, and the only thing important was having a girlfriend or boyfriend. Ah, to be 16 years old again. Thank you Murmaids for giving us a taste of the years back then.
Well said.
When America was such a great and very different country. Wish I had a time machine.
If you come up with that time machine please give me a shout, I've got to go back! Had a Long life, lots if good and great times and lots of not so good times. I'd give Anything to go back!! I recently found out while doing some ongoing searching for my first love when I was 14 and then 15. She would come in to visit her grandmother who lived down block from me. Although a very short time we spent over 2 summers I could Never Forget her!! Over my lifetime and having my own family I wkukd periodically think of her and over the recent years tried looking her up to no avail since her name wouldve changed. But about 5 months ago I tried again and for some strange and heartbreaking reason she must've guided me to her, for what j found was what I wished I wouldn't have! It was her obituary, she passed away 1 month before I finally found her. Heartbroken as I just wanted to see how she was and that she had a good life. Just to share stories and photos if even just by emails, just had to talk to her or contact her one more time as we drifted apart way back when, about 50 years ago and were too young to find each other and our lives moved onto separate paths. Just wanted to let her know I NEVER STOPPED,,, thinking about her! What I would do for that time machine right about now,,, . If I never wouldve found her as I wished I hadn't, in my mind she may still be here and at least the thought I still may find her and we could casually connect and fill that open void I was carrying for most my life. But now it's a long time past memory that will never be again. Sad!
Same here! I'd give anything to grow up in the 60s!
@@raymondcaruso507 The US has always been "great" in one way or another. And all countries are "different" with the passing of 60 years time.
I'm 45 years old. I sometimes wish I could've lived in these days. I'm not a big fan of today's world.
Ppl seem to have sense back then and quality of life was better.
It aint great no more.😢@57highland
Beautiful female trio singers 😊
I WAS STATIONED IN LAOS AND CAMBODIA ON A MOTORCYCLE RECON UNIT FOR THE 101 ST. AIRBORNE WHEN I FIRST HEARD THIS SONG. I WAS 19.
@@LAUS-DEO-HAWAII I’m very moved to read this. I wish you the best, Sally
Terri Fischer's voice is absolutely breathtaking! Those vocal harmonies and background instruments are to die for. 1963- what a year in pop music!
Until 11-22-63 The day the real 60's was ushered in.
Nostalgic song.
Reminds one of a happier and simpler time in life.
This song is the true embodiment of the age of innocence we were living in. The lyrics, the sweet voices and harmonies choke me up every time I hear it. I was 12 years old when this song was popular.
Just months prior to Kennedy... eerie
She was a junior. He was a senior. In the early part of the school year, he asked her to go steady. She said yes, and he placed his letter sweater around her shoulders.
He played football. She cheered him on (even though he spent a lot of time on the bench). She loved that he was a great dancer. They rarely missed dances or sock hops. "Popsicles and Icicles" was *their* song.
They would break up toward the end of the school year, and the letter sweater would go back into his wardrobe. Hearts mended, and they moved on with life. They are in their 70s now and still friends. Yes, just friends. But this song is still special to them. Not romantic; just special.
She's so thankful to have lived in that era.
Nice story.
What a sweet story
@@Squee_Dow Wow!! Thanks for sharing this. It means a lot to me at a moment when I’m feeling low. All the best to you both (and it’s great you’ve preserved your friendship). Sally Gordon
I fell in love with this song the first time I heard it back in the 60's. I'll be 68 in August.
I’m 80 and this song coincided with the first time I was in love. So innocent and naive, but wonderful!
Memories of late Dec 1963
I was 6 years old then, got a transistor radio for Christmas in '63. This was one of the first songs I heard on it.
@@RBAILEY57 And one of the best from that time, just before the arrival of the Beatles that changed music forever. 😊
Great classic written by David Gates who went on to have major success with the group called "BREAD." What a talent!
Yes, he used almost the same chord progression for the Bread song, “If”.
I didn't know that thank you
I never knew!!!
Thanks!
Oh I didn't know David Gates wrote this! Loved Breads song!
The Guitar man
Terry Fisher Siegel
Lead singer of The Murmaids
1946 - March 28, 2017
Rest in Peace
God, she had a sweet, lovely voice ........
May God watch over her
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 ☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️
Shine on Terry Fisher Siegel , shine on....mahalo
So sorry to hear this sad news. She had a beautiful voice along with a beautiful song !!! May God bless her beautiful soul...RIP, Dear Lady !!….
What a cool song! I am 70 and I remember the summer of 1963 when this tune came on KFRC SF Bay Area California. Wow...we all just loved this song...Thank You Murmaids...It's June 2020 and we need the great memories of the past. Who is with me? Peace & Love
Important question: Did you actually hear this song in the summer of that year? There is some question about when it hit the airwaves.
@@basilmarasco1975 It didn't hit ,Detroit until early "64!!
@@fredmar6436 I was sure I heard it in my hometown (near Buffalo) right around the time school started in 1963.
@@basilmarasco1975 Don't understand the discrepancies, but ok. But here in Detroit it hit the airwaves in December and not before.
@@fredmar6436 The discrepancy happened because the group recorded the song in the early summer of 1963. After the record came out of the factory, it was distributed to radio stations all over the country, and the decision was up to each station as to when they started playing it. This information came from one of the Murmaids (Sally) on another posting of this song, a few years ago.
I remember my friends brother had this 45rpm. I was 8 & loved it! He moved out 2 years later & left his 45's behind. Of course l asked my friend if l could have it. YES! Still have it at 69.
Yup!❤
If there's a heaven, this song will be playing there.
There is a heaven and God has given that to us through His Son Jesus. When we repent and believe in Him we shall be saved and have everlasting life.
@@truthoflife4402Amém, my darling friend and brother in Jesus Christ! 🙌😭🥲😃
@@truthoflife4402 Amen to that.
@@desertguy395 Wow! Thanks so much. Sally
@SallyGordonMark Thank you Sally. That song you guys did sounds like angels singing. It will always be close to my heart. 🌟
If they were selling 'Time Machines' I would go back to 1963 and never come back!
Take me too, if ya find one!
@@johnnyintrieri Thanks, But, the time machines were made to fit only one person i will buy you one though, Thank you very much for answering my funny comment.
@@michaelquinones-lx6ks Thanks! Waiting. 👍🏻
@@johnnyintrieri Time only exists in Unreality. There is no time in Reality, all these songs exist with9ut time. Same for all seen and heard, all exist eternal. Go ahead and say any word. It has always existed eternal. Reality is all the same. No matter what sees it, it is the same. Check out Reality's playlists all music ever recorded INME "Absolute Perfect 500 late fifties" as a starter, and trillions of lists exist simultaneous, timeless, wordless, pure fun eternal.
Same
RIP Terry Siegel ...I woke with this song in my head today Oct 29 2020...maybe in another universe we can find this world again....a better world.
Hope so. Sounds of happy and innocent times.
The age of innocence and good feeling in America in spite of the strife that was existent I believe the human heart was in a better place than today for we now live in a debased society and that innocent time would be forever shattered in a few weeks come 11/22.
@@brianherrington7226 You said it, brother. You got that right.
Stick with God and we'll be in that better place.
Songs like this reflect the innocence and lack of cynicism of that time. Songs that just made you happy.
One morning in 1963 I woke up to this song. There was something about it, maybe it was the first time I heard it but that memory has stayed with me.
Always loved this song. So sweet and innocent. Nice memories.
I love this song!! I was 16 and listened to this on WLS Radio, Chicago on my Transistor Radio!! Yeah I'm 67!
I guess we are all in the same boat. Same Age! I grew up listening these great 60's tunes on New York Radio, and Watching Dick Clark's, American Bandstand out of Philadelphia on a NY. TV Station. I Love Sally Gorden the lead singer. Great Voices for a Girl Group of 16 year olds... Nothing today can compare to the great music of the 60's....
Sir David Haddon The 60's were great, but so were the 50's.
+Jo Hyatt Me too next week. It came fast, didn't it!
Jo Htatt Same here I was 16 listening to this on Cousin Brucie Rock Radio WABC NY.
I have commented on this song to Sally Gordon the Blond Singer , Now Sally Gordon Mark, and lives in Paris, and recently run into her on the internet...Her web page is sallygordonmark.com Check Her Out!
+Greg Maxwell Thanks for the comment, Greg. You are right, it did come way to fast. We just didn't realize how fortunate we were to be growing up in the 60's. Happy 'early' Birthday to you! I hope it's grand.
Such a great old song. So much better than the crap that's put out today rock, country ect.
Thank you Sally Gordon and the Murmaids for your contribution during the Vietnam war era. I was 17 when my boyfriend left for Vietnam. We sent cassette tapes back and forth. And when my girlfriends and I got together I would pop in a cassette tape and let it play while we listened to the radio, sang, danced and just did what teenage girls do best -- talk talk talk. He later told me that sometimes he shared the tapes with the guys in his unit and it brought them such a feeling of home. That was a difficult time and the music brought us together.
@@elainelacey3712 Thank you for this message, Elaine. It means a lot to me. Sally
that you for your service had a older brother who was there and lost a classmate there
I remember listening to this song with my grandmother shortly before she passed. I miss her. This beautiful song that she loved will always remind me of her.
Remember "Hey there little Red Riding Hood. You sure are lookin' good. Your everything a big, bad wolf could want."? (Sam the Sham) That's the song my grandmother and I listened to.
Nice
@@jscottupton that song scared me when I was little
Your grandmother will always be with you.
Listening to this song over the years can make anyone feel better and hopeful.
@@greghirst6941 Thanks, Greg. Your comment means a lot to me. Let’s continue to feel hopeful for the future! All the best to you, Sally
wow this song takes me back when we used to live on gould st sanantonio 1966
11-22-63 The last day's of this country's innocence, The dawn of the stormy 1960's after Dallas.
America was very naive then we were duped into believing a lie.
I play this song quite often as one of my favorites from my teen years. It still puts a lump in my throat as I recall those happy years, when music was music and we had people who could really sing. Many thanks for the memories. By the way I am 78 and thank God I lived back when these ladies and so many others afforded us such wonderful music!
Just turned 76 in 2024. I was 15 when this was released in 63 and I loved it deeply then for its own sake and for the fact that I had my first real girlfriend that year and we both loved it. By the way I'm surprised there's so many dudes commenting on here I thought I'd be a loner but I guess this thing transcends such things. And as regards your comment about singing beautifully, back then you actually had to be able to sing to call yourself a singer. Although eventually I would have to capitulate a bit because I began to like Bob Dylan around 1965 and then of course Rod Stewart who still can't sing with the shit but he sure has Soulful delivery. "If I listened long enough to you". Coincidentally that song was popular during the Carnage of my first marriage and will always remind me I'm listening to the lies of my then wife. Not wanting to believe. But I guess I'm rambling now, so adios.
@@Smedley1947You're not alone with those feelings. I just turned 79 on 14 March of 2024. I love listening to these three ladies sing. Their voices, music and dress are especially great to me. My five sisters came from the same Mold as these three ladies.
Thank you girls for sharing your great talent.
I turned 64 on that same day and loved this song then and even more at this age 🎉 PS The number one Billboard hit the day I was born was another unique tune of that special period called Theme from A Summer Place, which I'm sure most everyone who likes Popsicles Icicles will know 🎉
@@herecomesforego1787 Oh yes. I remember sitting in my English class and a lot of my fellow students had a big discussion about The Theme From A Summer Place. I couldn't join in because I hadn't seen the movie yet.
Good times back then.
WHOEVER PLAYED THAT ORGAN DID A HECK OF A GOOD JOB
Could have easily been Leon Russell. Member of The Wrecking Crew who were studio musicians for tons of these songs.
This was big when I was in boot camp
Where did you go to boot camp. I went to Parris Island in August of 1964.
@Dr.Pepper001
San Diego Aug 29th 63
I was 12 when this song came out, and there was this girl in my class who I was really crushing on. When I heard this song back then, I imagined her singing it about me. It never happened, but I still love the song. Thank you GurlGroops for posting, and God Bless Terry Fisher Siegal, the lead vocalist.
David Gates of Bread wrote this.
@@jeffgrein5955 Wow, I didn't know that TY
I was just a boy when this song came out. It brings back a lot of good memories! I'm only sorry that they didn't have more hits. Thank you Gurlgroups and Mermaids!
Us girls sang this about more boys than you can ever imagine!
Transister radio days were awesome.silver dollar survey ,talked my mom to buy me one at goldblatts.the more transisters the cooler kid you were,im glad i was 60s kid.only 3 channels on t.v.
"Silver Dollar Survey"? Was that a radio show in your area? In mine, we had the "Million Dollar Weekend", where every other song they played had been a million seller.
And, yes, only 3 channels on TV, and those 3 were enough.
Classic. These singers were so talented & these nowadays singers can’t compare to them. Bring me back to my youth.
@@carlmorris6744 Thank you, Carl. All the best to you, Sally
I took a lot of ribbing from my teammates when I played high school football back in 1964.... This was my favorite song on the radio.... How macho was that?? lool
I loved it then.... and 50 years later..... this old man still loves it... Thanks for the memory...
Nothing wrong with a macho football player appreciating great music. I love this song so much.
good for you boo on your teammates bet they thought real men don't cry either
Sam
same, same for me......it was a magical mystery tour through HS in early 60's
This song has long been a guilty pleasure for me too. It may not be a guy song, but it captures the sweetness and innocence of young love so nicely. I love it.
mgsacto I got caught at, but still listen lol
Brings back some pleasant memories
Aaaah the magic of the 60's. Girls with angelic voices. I miss that!!!!!!!
ernie you R on the money. This tune gets "out there" in smooth magical splendor
today's "music" just doesn't even come close to what was produced in the 1960's
@@swaugertim This was written by David Gates of Bread
YES !
@@swaugertim True that.
Still love this beautiful song. Fantastic harmonies. I'm 70 years old and from NYC. What memories!!
Good for you, Bob.
I love this haunting little song, I just want more of it. I wish it was longer!
David Gates the writer of this song wrote more hits and formed his own band- Bread.
Did not know this. Very interesting tidbit!
Maria Beltran--We loved this song in High School in Wilmington, DE. It was a hard song to dance to as I remember at our school dances. But it was a bright and uptempo song...Though Vietnam was our next thing after graduation if you didn't go to college. We still loved these bright Murmaids and their only hit song...
+Garent Gunther thank you for sharing! How blessed you were to have lived through that beautiful, innocent time.
Maria Beltran; thank you for your kind comment. It was an innocent time--kind of like the Rockwell paintings of America...but President Kennedy was assassinated when I was a HIgh School sophomore. Then Vietnam started drafting our HIgh School seniors. I went to college while my neighborhood buddies were going to Vietnam. Soon some of those buddies weren't coming home. I quit college before my senior year and enlisted in the Marine Corps. The sweet innocence was soon lost forever for our generation. Maybe the reason this music is so powerful to me, for sure...I am sorry if I have said too much, especially after your warm comment...
나는 이노래를 사랑합니다. 고등학교때 처음 들었어요. 월남전에도 한국의 군인으로 참전하였고 지금은 77살입니다. 감사합니다.
Viet Nam vet! Welcome to good memories...
Oldies but goodies.
This song is such a memory trigger . I want to go back and relive it and fix a few things along the way . Peace
Staring down in adoring awe at my 14 minute old blonde blue-eyed first grandchild, the prettiest little girl I had ever seen and what does this new Mimi do? She suddenly starts singing popsicles and icicles softly to this amazing miracle whose eyes opened, widened and fixed on her grandmother and never left, tii the song was over.... Now THAT'S a memory! What would we do without music, I cannot imagine what this life would be like without it and so grateful we don't have to!
What a GREAT first song for your granddaughter to hear! What a priceless moment!!
Wow! What a great experience.
Great love song!
Love this song. Heard it for the first time (that I can recall) a few days ago. Been glued to it.
This oldie brings back memories to me a time when I drove my car to a drive in such a nostalgic down memory lane ft
I loved that tune when I was a teenager, and I love it now! I thought it was so cute...
Its Romance. Innocence. Growing up! Memories! Love. Dance. Years gone by. My older bros taking me everywhere! Nostalgia!!🎶🎶🎶Now 65. Still listening!
I remember this song when I was a very young girl..I liked it..
i was 18 in 1963 when this came out,,,, god i miss those days
I was 18 years old to in 1963 johnlinda. Sure do miss those days!! They were the best days!
Same age, same feelings.
In 1963 I was 16 and I loved this song!!!!! I sure miss those days too!!! i
I was 19 in 63 and agree with you Johnlinda
I celebrated my first birthday in April, 1963 and I regret not being old enough to enjoy dating back in those days. Saturday nights were special when boy and girl shared a malt at the shop and enjoyed each other instead of texting, of course cell phones were not around then. Many of the electronic toys that have come out in the last 40 years have ruined dating and face to face interaction. How we regressed since that golden era.
From the earliest period when I can actually remember certain songs being on the radio. I would have been seven. My brother had the local AM top 40 station playing constantly, so I heard it all. I remember this well. It has a very wistful feeling. And written by David Gates, who knew.
Song released December 7th, 1963. It peaked at #3 and was on the Billboard Top Forty charts for 11 weeks. The Murmaids was a teen "girl group" from L.A., CA comprised of sisters Carol and Terry Fischer and friend, Sally Gordon. Song written and composed by David Gates, lead singer and songwriter of the group "Bread". Bread had its first hit "Make It With You" which peaked at #1 and was on the charts for 13 weeks. Song was released July 11th, 1970. Bread had a string of hits of which 12 made it to the top forty!!
Yes! Written & composed by David Gates, lead singer and songwriter of "Bread"!!!
do you know what happened to them later on? also who played drums on this song?
"Popsicles and Icicles" began receiving airplay in Los Angeles in October 1963, breaking nationally in November
I was just quoting out of my Billboard Top Forty Book.
Hi, I'm Sally Gordon, who sang the high part. How we ended up singing together is a funny story. Actually we weren't friends, despite what the publicity blurb that's always quoted. Terry and I were seniors in high school and sang in the choir. We had a mutual friend named Susie who called me one afternoon to ask if I would fill in for her at a recording session because her mother wanted her to stay home and do the ironing! I went in her place and met Carol for the first time. We sang back-up for Kim Fowley (you can find the song on UA-cam - it's called Astrology where I sing the solo) who liked our sound and introduced us to the woman who owned Chattahoochee Records who was looking for a girl group. She signed us. We recorded Popsicles and I went away to college in the fall. The song was released in the Spring of 1963 (not December) but nothing happened until a DJ in San Francisco promoted it and it became a hit in November, I think. When I went back to LA for Christmas vacation, we recorded an album, which stayed in a vault for a long, long time! None of us ever saw a penny from this hit! The group was re-formed several times with different combinations of singers.
I love the beautiful vocal harmonies in this song, plus the sounds from the keyboard. It always reminds me of the early 1960s and a different era.
I do so love that simple organ music. Organs were very popular at that time and would remain so for at least a decade. Remember Dave "baby" Cortez? He recorded Rinky Dink, Patricia, the Happy Organ and a bunch I don't remember because I didn't particularly care for them.
My big sister loved this song.🔆
This song embodied the innocence of America that is gone forever.
Such a bittersweet memory... a classic song and a trip down memory lane. Great melody, wonderful harmonies and lyrics that take me back to a time of innocence, new romance and first kisses.
Memories are always with discovered with great 60s music
Have thousands of albums still looking for yours.
“Wind blowing through his hair “! Oh my goodness yes! Dedicating to my late husband, Roger.
I was 16 in 1963 Melbourne Australia. My then girlfriend Janet this was our love song! At 73 I still have vivid memories of her and this song!
They do not make songs like this anymore, awesome.
I've always & still love this song
Yes so romantic. Innocent it had a quality that is rare in a song. MYSTIQUE. I was 19
" and drive-ins on Friday night " Wow ! Takes me way back !
Loved this song! So many memories.
Hello Sally Gordon. It's funny how some of the ole favorites pop in your head. From the first day I listened to your song, I knew I was hooked on "Rock "N roll" It pleases me that some of the mermaids are still around to speak about your songs.
My reason I come back to this song would be a long story. In short, I was 9 years in 1963 when your song hit the K/MEN radio 1290 tune sheet. My father launched then the brand-new radio station in San Bernardino California. I soooo remember listening to your song during all of our family travel. This song owns a piece of my heart, and I can't help thinking of my most loved father driving our 1962 Green T-Bird. Best wishes to you all, Mark.
❤ I remember hearing popsicles icicles when the girls were dancing to the maypole in the Bronx New York City
I will never forget the winter of 1963.
i was conceived 12 25 63...
I love these girls! A great song written by David Gates!
Great harmony and a song that just brings a smile.
Great! one of the best harmonic progressions in the pop(sicle) history
A musician has entered the chat room. I wonder who came up with it? David Gates himself or the session musician who played on the single?
I was too young to appreciate this at the time, but 60 years later, oh yeah! Terry Fisher had a nice voice.
I was in 10th grade, living in New Mexico. One night I was tuning around on crackly old AM and heard a station on 1030. It was WBZ in frickin' Boston! Boston! Heard it again the next night and the next, too. Long distance calls were $$ then but I thought it would be cool to call the following night, let 'em know where I was calling from and request Popsicles and Icicles. My call was never made. The next day was November 22, 1963.
Always love this group. Beautiful voices. And always loved this song. Thank y’all for some great music. ☺️
3 pretty smiles. 3 pretty voices. 1 special song. Thank you for making my day.
Oddly, this song just popped into my head. I must've been around 11-12 when it was released, and I always liked it. Even after all these years (50+), I still remembered all the words.
This song is a heart melter.
Great Song , Great Time in My Life
February 1964 , on the JHS wrestling team .loved this song !
More good memories of my Sandi
Instantly this song brings me back to being 10 years old. Such a happy song indeed.
I heard this song yesterday on Sirius radio while driving and it reminded me of old year book, high school prom pictures. The girl in her evening dress with the puffy shoulder things, elbow length white gloves, orchid corsage and of course a bouffant hairdo. The guy in his white dinner jacket, straight leg slacks, carnation boutonnière and a flat top buzz haircut. One or both with thick horned-rim glasses, posing with big smiles for couples picture. Brings back memories of a much more innocent but great time to grow up.
Thanks for the flashback memories Murmaids!
THANK YOU SALLY❣️
Murmaids you brought such gorgeous music into this world with your beautiful delicious talent. I am so very thankfull we have this treasure to listen to and to love thank you for this precious gift.
I was one year old when The Mermaids released Popsicles and Icicles and I thank God I got to grow up in this era. If you were born in the 50's through the 90's with all the golden classic music, movies and concerts and other events like picnics, YOU were blessed!
Hear, hear! I was 4 years old.
Amazing song!
The Good Humor man brings me back with this song❤
I always hear it as "Bright stars and, Gitarzan , drive-ins on Friday night." But of course, I know Ray Stevens didn't have his hit until about five years later.
Takes me back to a better time when I was younger
God bless the girls from the 60's who enjoyed this music. Great makeout song. You went on to become the great women from 60's and 70's that produced great daughters and sons for today's world.
I was born the year this was released.
I was born on December 3rd 1963. The year that this song was released.
Music from a time when America was a kinder country with love for your neighbor. a great time to grow up as a teenager
Uncanny how a song wil pop into your noggin just by hearing a word. In this case popsicles. Haven't heard this song in over 50 years, I believe.
I don't know if there is such a thing as magic but if there is, then music must be magic. Nothing, but nothing can transport you back to a place and the time, and an actual feeling that can only be described as how you would feel at that time washes over you. Not Nostalgia from as you listen to it 60 years later, but the actual feeling of being in the middle of everything that was going on at the time, who you knew, who your friends were, what was going on in the world, going on at school, all of the other music at the time, what car you drove, what car other people drove in high school, every bit of detail seems to come from the widely spaced dispersed synapses in my brain all brought to bear in the singular moment of listening to a single song such as this; and it all happens automatically.
Same thing happened to me about five minutes ago!
Never saw pictures of the Murmaids before. Oddly, they looked just like I had imagined. Very cute and well-dressed.
Now , I am not approved by any means having fully embraced the sixties as I was 19 in 1967 nor am I a religious man, though I do believe in a God of sorts, but I am shocked and appalled by much of today's culture. Compare these three girls singing live on a stage with a modern performance by a female singer or girl group with what amounts to a strip show with dry humping dancers and all manner of Over the Top explicit sexuality. As I said I am not a prude. But I don't believe the stage is the place for such things. One's own bedroom maybe, but not public displays.
@@fazbell I thought they were older, maybe mid 20s. But Terri and Sally had just graduated HS when they recorded this song, and Carol was still in school. Very young talent.