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Originally Posted by PhantomWolf
I can't believe you missed this little gem from Apollo 17.... Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-dee-da-dee...
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I didn't miss it -- it's just not a favourite. Being a teenager of the 60s who was much more into British R&B and mod groups -- The Who, Small Faces, Troggs, Dave Clark Five, Rolling Stones, and later, Cat Stevens – instead of the wimpish, flower-power, LSD-fueled, jingly-bell mush that came out of San Francisco or the ear-jarring, square-waved Jimi Hendix noise, the only thing I didn't like about the astronauts was their atrocious choice of music -- Frank Sinatra, Buck Owens and The Fifth Dimension's "Aquarius."

As British music probably wouldn't have been acceptable to the American public, at least the astronauts could have had the good taste to associate with the likes of The Byrds, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, the Everly Brothers, Peter Paul and Mary, Creedence Clearwater Revival, or the greatest of all, Buddy Holly. Jack Schmitt, bless him, showed real class by including the name of one of Buddy's songs in Gene Cernan's T-38 joke.