Lenore's Utterly Egocentric Summer of Love Challenge

[scribblinlenore]

I'm going to be 40 in, oh, about three weeks. I'm feeling good about it. More than that, actually. I'm feeling self-indulgent. *g* So I'm issuing a story challenge. Because I CAN.

Lenore's Utterly Egocentric Multifandom Summer of Love Challenge

1. Peruse this list of the Top 100 Songs of 1966 (the year I was born!).



1. The Ballad Of The Green Berets, Sgt. Barry Sadler
2. Cherish, Association
3. (You're My) Soul And Inspiration, Righteous Brothers
4. Monday, Monday, The Mama's and The Papa's
5. 96 Tears, ? and The Mysterians
6. Last Train To Clarksville, The Monkees
7. Reach Out I'll Be There, Four Tops
8. Summer In The City, Lovin' Spoonful
9. Poor Side Of Town, Johnny Rivers
10. California Dreamin', The Mama's and The Papa's
11. You Can't Hurry Love, Supremes
12. What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted, Jimmy Ruffin
13. These Boots Are Made For Walkin', Nancy Sinatra
14. Born Free, Roger Williams
15. Strangers In The Night, Frank Sinatra
16. We Can Work It Out, The Beatles
17. When A Man Loves A Woman, Percy Sledge
18. Winchester Cathedral, New Vaudeville Band
19. Hanky Panky, Tommy James and The Shondells
20. Good Lovin', Young Rascals
21. Paint It Black, Rolling Stones
22. My Love, Petula Clark
23. Lightin' Strikes, Lou Christie
24. Wild Thing, Troggs
25. Kicks, Paul Revere and The Raiders
26. Sunshine Superman, Donovan
27. Sunny, Bobby Hebb
28. Paperback Writer, The Beatles
29. See You In September, Happenings
30. You Keep Me Hangin' On, Supremes
31. Lil' Red Riding Hood, Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs
32. Devil With A Blue Dress On and Good Golly Miss Molly (Medley), Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels
33. Good Vibrations, Beach Boys
34. A Groovy Kind Of Love, Mindbenders
35. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me, Dusty Springfield
36. Born A Woman, Sandy Posey
37. Cool Jerk, The Capitols
38. Red Rubber Ball, The Cyrkle
39. B-A-B-Y, Carla Thomas
40. Walk Away Renee, Left Banke
41. Daydream, Lovin' Spoonful
42. Time Won't Let Me, Outsiders
43. Hooray For Hazel, Tommy Roe
44. Sweet Pea, Tommy Roe
45. Bus Stop, Hollies
46. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, B.J. Thomas and The Triumphs
47. Ain't Your Puppet, James and Bobby Purify
48. Ain't Too Proud To Beg, Temptations
49. Dirty Water, Standells
50. Elusive Butterfly, Bob Lind
51. I Am A Rock, Simon and Garfunkel
52. Crying Time, Ray Charles
53. Secret Agent Man, Johnny Rivers
54. The Sounds Of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel
55. Lady Godiva, Peter and Gordon
56. Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?, Lovin' Spoonful
57. You Baby, The Turtles
58. Barefootin', Robert Parker
59. Homeward Bound, Simon and Garfunkel
60. Uptight (Everything's Alright), Stevie Wonder
61. Bang Bang, Cher
62. Sloop John B, Beach Boys
63. 19th Nervous Breakdown, Rolling Stones
64. Wipe Out, The Surfaris
65. Beauty Is Only Skin Deep, Temptations
66. No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach Is In), T-Bones
67. Just Like Me, Paul Revere and The Raiders
68. Love Makes The World Go Round, Deon Jackson
69. The Pied Piper, Crispian St. Peters
70. Coming On Strong, Brenda Lee
71. Somewhere My Love, Ray Conniff and The Singers
72. Almost Persuaded, David Houston
73. If I Were A Carpenter, Bobby Darin
74. Don't Mess With Bill, Marvelettes
75. Cherry, Cherry, Neil Diamond
76. Working In The Coal Mine, Lee Dorsey
77. Message To Michael, Dionne Warwick
78. Love Is A Hurtin' Thing, Lou Rawls
79. Barbara Ann, Beach Boys
80. Gloria, Shadows Of Knight
81. Dandy, Herman's Hermits
82. Rainy Day Women #12 And 35, Bob Dylan
83. Guantanamera, Sandpipers
84. Psychotic Reaction, Count Five
85. Land Of 1,000 Dances, Wilson Pickett
86. Oh How Happy, Shades Of Blue
87. Woman, Peter and Gordon
88. Five O'clock World, Vogues
89. Black Is Black, Los Bravos
90. Hungry, Paul Revere and The Raiders
91. My World Is Empty Without You, Supremes
92. Baby Scratch My Back, Slim Harpo
93. She's Just My Style, Gary Lewis and The Playboys
94. The More I See You, Chris Montez
95. 634-5789, Wilson Pickett
96. Yellow Submarine, The Beatles
97. Nowhere Man, The Beatles
98. Zorba The Greek, Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass
99. Shapes Of Things, Yardbirds
100. I Fought The Law, Bobby Fuller Four



2. Comment and let me know which one(s) you choose. This is mostly a matter of curiosity on my part. It's fine if people want to do the same song. No pressure! No commitment! It's all about the fun!

3. Write a story, any story, any fandom, any length, or make a manip or a vid, any anything you want that somehow relates to your song.

4. Post it to your LJ and link to the entry I'll make on Tuesday, June 20th (my birthday!).


Think of the possibilities, my friends! The SGA story "Land of 1,000 Dances" (#85), the SV story "Cherry, Cherry" (#75), all the SPN "ghost shoe" fun you could have with "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" (#13). Come play (and feel free to pimp)! It will make me so, so happy. :)

Comments

[alistra.livejournal.com]

Oooh, nice one! I'm picking #6 Last Train to Clarksville by the Monkees because even if I'm only going to be 24 this September, I had a longish "Yay! Monkees!" phase a while back. And of course I'd love a SPN fic about it because uhm, I've never seen SGA. Or SV. :D Hee.

Well, I'm not on your flist I think so feel free to ignore that. But anyway. Here I go. :D

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

You're on my list! :)

And yay for the Monkees. They're just...fun.

[annaalamode.livejournal.com]

Why do these song titiles make me want to write really cracked out clichefic?

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Apparently, 1966 was a really cracked out year! I mean, "The Ballad of the Green Berets" by Sgt. Barry Sadler was the #1 song.

?????????????

Anyhoo, I completely encourage your impulse to write cracked out clichefic! *g*

[ingrid-m.livejournal.com]

*rubs paws* Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh .... this is gonna be gooooooood!

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Yay, yay, yay!

*gets all excited*

I have to figure out what I'm going to write. *ponders*

[poisontaster]

I'm a little disturbed how many of these songs I know/own/love given that they're a WEE bit before my time (1973! \o/). Gods, what a great challenge. I want to write fics for them all.

I want to do California Dreaming (SGA) and Homeward Bound (SPN).

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Those are great songs! In fact, I really have the urge to listen to "California Dreaming" right NOW. *g*

[twoweevils.livejournal.com]

*glee* Excellent plan. The last time I did one of your challenges I kicked ass (if I do say so myself). Also? I'll be 39 tomorrow. Woot!

K and I are taking:
53 - Secret Agent Man
54 - Sounds of Silence

*bounce*

M.

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! Geminis rule! :)

I love those songs. Have fun with them!

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

Hooray! I love writing things for people's birthday-fests!

May I take the following?

16. We Can Work It Out, The Beatles

And maybe buy you a drink to celebrate sometime soon? :)

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you for taking part.

And whee! I'd love to go out for a drink. :)

[littledrop.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be 40 in, oh, about three weeks.

Seriously? Wow! I always think of you as 27! Happy birthday for three weeks from now!

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the b-day wishes! And, hey, I'll take 27! :)

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

I want #7, Reach Out and I'll Be There, by the Four Tops. I'm a '67 baby, myself, so we share a lot of artists in common ;)

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Yay for people born in the years of Flower Power! :)

And thanks for playing!

[mosca.livejournal.com]

Happy almost-birthday!

I am willing to very tentatively commit to a Veronica Mars story based on "Rainy Day Women #12 And 35."

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the b-day wishes, doll!

Absolutely no commitment necessary, but that VM story does sound cool!

[dawnybee.livejournal.com]

You're a genius! It's a terrific challange for a terrific reason, my fellow Gemini.

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Yay for us Geminis! :)

And yay for enticing people to write stories and make fan art for my birthday a summer song challenge. *bg*

[aelora.livejournal.com]

Well, hell. First I'm going to have to find the mp3 of These Boots are Made for Walking. And then I'm going to have to figure out how I could possibly get a vid done by the 20th...

And hey! You share the same b-day as JT of Duran Duran! *bounces*

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

SQUEEEEEEEEEE! Oh, you make me so happy, Aelora. *bounces*

Me and JT, baby! Me and JT! :)

[brynwulf]

OH hell, I must be freaking insane, but since I know every fucking one of these songs (yes, I'm almost 50) and groove on them, I'll play.

Summer in the City by the Loving Spoonfuls has always been and still is one of my favorite summer vacation songs. And i don't seem capable of writing anything other than SPN these days.

Happy Birthday!!
Meg

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the b-day wishes, doll! And yay! Thanks for playing. I love "Summer in the City" too. I never realized there was so much good music the year I was born!

[sanyin.livejournal.com]

Newbie to your journal (came for your amazing SPN stuff), but this challenge ROCKS. I'm a child of the late 80s, and I appreciate my current hiphop, alternative, punk etc. (and I shamefully did go through the requisite boyband phase when I was twelve), but my main musical interests are firmly planted right around this time. Ah, the good days of Dylan, before he slid slowly into crap after Blood on the Tracks.

Ok, Winchester Cathedral would be too easy/obvious, right?

I'm torn between being a loyal Bostonian with Dirty Water or going Fab Four with Nowhere Man. Both could work really well for SPN.

Hmmm.

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

This was the first time I'd ever taken a look at the songs that were popular the year I was born, and there's so much good stuff!

Man, "Nowhere Man" is a PERFECT SPN song. Thanks so much for playing!

[itsaslashything.livejournal.com]

Do you have the mp3s of any of these? There are couple that could be REAL fun!

And happy early Birthday...I did 40 last year and you're handling it much better than I did. I wanted to cry.

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of music of yore. If you tell me which ones you're interested in, I'll see if I have them.

Thanks for the b-day wishes! And, you know, I really look at turning 40 as a prime opportunity for people to be sweet to me, so I don't mind it so much. *bg*

[hyperfocused.livejournal.com]

Lots of goodo songs (I'm 1967, wonder if my list is as fun?)

I'm thinking of doing Sunshine Superman (bet you can guess the fandom) and Kicks. Or possibly 5:00 World. Or um, hell. I don't know.... except now my head is full of oldies.

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

I was amazed by how many good songs were from 1966! Yay!

And thanks for playing, doll! :)

[yavannauk.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, there are some good songs on this list, including probably my favourite song ever (Dusty Springfield)... and I totally can't decide which one to choose! *cries*

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

I was amazed by how many songs I love are from my birth year, Yavanna!

And, yay, I'm glad you're gonna play. :)

[candygramme.livejournal.com]

I'll go with #69 - Crispian St. Peters and the Pied Piper, cos dude, it's #69, and also it's given me a bunny...

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

#69--can't go wrong with that! *g*

Thanks for playin'.

[carson-leigh.livejournal.com]

I'm going with I Am a Rock for SPN. Great idea.

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's such an SPN song!

Thanks for playin'.

[devin-chain.livejournal.com]

Not picking a song. Just dropping in as a show of solidarity. I turn 40 on June 13th. *waves*

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

40-year old Geminis rule, baby!

*high fives you*

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

I'd love to write something for your birthday, if my pesky writer's block will allow it :\

I'm absolutely horrible when it comes to choosing but hm, I think I might be going with Dandy by Herman's Hermits. But there's atleast five other songs that give off tiny plotbunnies so yeah... Who knows! *sheepish grin*

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Awwww! Thanks for writing something. And, yes, writer's block is a killer. *pets*

[redfirecracker.livejournal.com]

Yay for Geminis! I'm June 15th.

No. 38, Red Rubber Ball by the Cyrkle. Because I grew up loving that song and I'm sure I can come up with *something* for it.

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Geminis RULE! :)

And that's a good song! Thanks for playin'. (And happy early b-day!)

[chicklet-girl.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm snagging #90, "Hungry" by Paul Revere and The Raiders, because the title fits with an SGA thing that's been in my brain for a few weeks. Why yes, it *is* from Rodney's POV, how did you guess?

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Hee! Also...awwww! I ::heart:: Rodney so.

Thanks for playin', doll!

[fairy-tale-echo.livejournal.com]

Your challenges are always so fun because they're also so informal. ::teehee::

So, what I want to do is use about 10 of these titles to do a series of interconnected drabbles, a little over 100 words each? Does that make sense? I am not sure which ones I want to use yet, but since we're all sharing...

In other words, I'm totally in. Yup! :)

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

I'm all about the casually tossed off challenge! *g*

I LOVE your idea. I can't wait to see what you do with it!

[celli]

See, I was going to be good, and then I looked at the list. :) #40, Walk Away Renee, is one of my favorite songs (my fave band Lowen & Navarro does of a cover of it to die for). So, #40 for a #40 it is. Probably Supernatural--or hey, would something in the Supernatural/SGA crossover universe I did work for you?

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Let me see. Let me see. How would I feel about more of your SPN/SGA crossover? *ponders*

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think that about sums it up. *g* Or, really, anything you want to write. I'm tickled you want to take part, doll! *hugs*

[zeldadestry.livejournal.com]

Wow! I don't think I'll get a chance to play, but what a fantastic idea for a challenge. I hope you have a wonderful birthday and get many fun stories!

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

I was quite pleased with my brilliant scheme to get people to write stories for my birthday challenge. *bg*

Thanks for the b-day wishes, doll!