TPPM (9): The Shangri-Las

[Dave Monroe]

First off, cf. ...

"The lesson is sad, as Dion always sez, but true ..."
(SL, "Intro," p. 13)

"Love, as Mickey and Sylvia, in their 1956 hit single,
remind us, love is strange." ("The Heart's Eternal
Vow")

"'Here's your back pack.  'Me gotta go,' as the
Kingsmen always used to say, and you too.'" (VL, Ch.
9, p. 190)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0312&msg=87543

But also ...

"Give Him a Great Big Kiss" (G. Morton, 1965)

What color are his eyes? 
I don't know, he's always wearing shades
Is he tall? 
Well, I gotta look up
Yeah, well, I hear he's bad
He's good bad, but he's not evil
Is he a good dancer? 
What do you mean? 
Well, how does he dance? 
Close--very, very close ...

http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/trivia/snapper/hours/musicans.html

http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/message.jsp?what=WritersAndGenres&message=537134&thread=84314&parent=536896

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0211&msg=72892

Still one of my favorite records to spin, though I've
been hitting their "Sophisticated Boom Boom" and
"Heaven Only knows" on occasion as well ...

--- Tim Strzechowski <Dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:

> "But Sloth's offspring, though bad -- to paraphrase
> the Shangri-Las -- are not always evil [...]"

[...]

> The specific song that Pynchon alludes to here is
> likely "Leader of the Pack" (1964), which contains
> the lines:
> 
>   My folks were always putting him down (down, down)
>   They said he came from the wrong side of town
>   (whatcha mean when ya say that he came from the
>   wrong side of town?)
>   They told me he was bad
>   But I knew he was sad
>   That's why I fell for (the leader of the pack)
> 
> http://www.rockabilly.nl/lyrics2/l0053.htm

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