LSUDad Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Happy 80th Heavenly Birthday to John Fred Gourrier! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSUDad Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 Last night I met up with John Fred’s Brother-In-Law and his wife. Food and Drinks, John Fred, gone way too soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchertiger Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Judy In Disguise With Glasses was a take on the Beatles' Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSUDad Posted January 22, 2022 Author Share Posted January 22, 2022 Still like this one around this time of the year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSUDad Posted May 2, 2022 Author Share Posted May 2, 2022 John Fred, sports? See another name you know on this roster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSUDad Posted May 10, 2022 Author Share Posted May 10, 2022 Happy Heavenly Birthday to Baton Rouge's "King of Rock 'n Roll".....John Fred Gourrier...."Fred," along with his "Playboy Band" made the town proud by delivering a No. 1 song in not only the country, but all across the world with their 1968 hit "Judy in the Disguise.".....John Fred, who graduated from Catholic High School, passed away in 2005. He would have been 81 today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSUDad Posted January 23, 2023 Author Share Posted January 23, 2023 It was 55 years ago today (January 20,1968) that John Fred and The Playboy Band knocked the Beatles off the top of the Billboard ‘Hot 100’ Charts, with their song “Judy in Disguise (With Glasses).” The song (co-written by John Fred Gourrier (lyrics) and Andrew Bernard (arrangement)), which none of the band ‘really liked,’ became the No.1 song in the country!…and sold a whopping 5 million copies! It repeated as No. 1 the following week and appeared in the Billboard ‘Top 10’ for eight weeks and 16 weeks total in the Hot 100. Gourrier got the song’s initial idea while the band was performing down in Florida. He kept seeing all the girls with ‘big sunglasses.’ He originally was going to call her “Beverly,” but as he once stated, “It just didn’t flow you know.” John Fred admitted he was parodying another Beatle hit from 1967, “Lucy in the Sky (With Diamonds).” After making visits to perform on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” and three days later on Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand,” the “Playboys’ head to Europe for a tour and while there, met The Beatles at Apple Studios in London. Paul McCartney quipped to John Fred, “The first thing I'm going to do when I get home is to write a song called 'Froggy in a Pond with Spectacles.” John Fred Gourrier died in April of 2005 at the age of 63, while Andrew Bernard died in May of 2021 at the age of 77. Drummer Joe Micelli, bass player Harold “Hog” Cowart and Charlie Spinosa have also past away. The only surviving members are Tommy deGeneres, Ronnie Goodson, Jimmy O’Rourke and manger Lynn Ourso. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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