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[mikeyank]

This is not a live performance but rather the studio version with lyrics. Simon and Garfunkel are one of the best musical acts of my lifetime. Paul Simon is a lyrical genius and Art Garfunkel has a beautiful voice and the two harmonize in a magical way. This is a GREAT song in my humble opinion.

 

[mikeyank]

I received a notice on my phone a few minutes ago that Bobby Sherman died at age 81. I had a big time crush on him and his songs were cute and catchy. He was a major teeny bopper pop star of that era.

 

[mikeyank]

I just saw this live performance from 1972 of this iconic song performed by the late, legendary Harry Chaplin.

 

[mikeyank]

I heard today that Connie Francis died at age 87, a good run. All I can think of when I hear her name is one song, emblematic of my favorite vacation spot Fort Lauderdale, that song being “Where the Boys Are”. And I sure met lots of “boys” there, (of legal age of course ). Even two young men who I met there and brought to New York to live with me. Neither lasted terribly long, but those are stories for a different thread. But Connie’s name and this song always brings me back to my vacations and adventures in Fort Lauderdale.

 

[mikeyank]

One more note about the film, “Where the Boys Are”, whose theme song sang by Connie Francis which became a song closely identified with Fort Lauferdale. The Marlin Beach Hotel became the focal point for gay activity on Fort Lauderdale Beach, where I would vacation each spring for many years. I would partake in where I used to call the three B’s, baseball, (the Yankees had their spring training facility), the beach, and the boys.

Poop Deck​

The Marlin Beach Hotel, Fort Lauderdale — Parts of the 1960 spring break classic, Where The Boys Are, were filmed at this hotel, which ironically became a gay resort in 1974. Much of the cheesy 1984 film remake was also shot here. Its popular disco, The Poop Deck, held daily afternoon t-dances. It closed in 1992.​

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