You remember Donny and Marie, right?

Marie was “a little bit country”, and Donny was “a little bit rock ‘n roll”. (Link to the song here, if you like. You’re welcome.)

Well, the Mormon wonder-twins might have rock ‘n roll and country covered, but I’m a little bit hippy.

Maybe it comes from being born in the sixties (I was actually born in May 1969 – almost the seventies – but I love being able to say: “I was born in the sixties!”), or maybe it was the repeated exposure to this as a child:

And by the way, if you haven’t played Free to Be, You and Me for your children, you’re all missing out! On valuable lessons like tolerance, acceptance, equality. *SIGH* Good, kind hippy values that have been swept under the carpet in our reactionary times.

Here’s my favourite: “Parents are People”, sung by Marlo Thomas and a young (and hot!) Harry Belafonte: Read the rest of this entry »