How I Watched This As a Kid and Didn't Become a Liberal Hippie, I'll Never Know.

Today, Carole and Paula Will Drop Acid and Play Acoustics !!

I gotta tell you, growing up as a kid in the early 70's was great. Yeah, we had Garanimals, but the TV shows were much better. We had some pretty trippy shit on the Tube back then. You KNOW Shaggy from 'Scooby Doo' smoked pot, and HR Puf N Stuff was one big LSD Festival. Then, there were other, more subversive kid's shows that looked nice to Mom & Dad, but deep inside, they were trying to turn us all into Hippies - FAR OUT, MAN !!!!

What show am i talking about? The Magic Garden .... Sure, it seemed harmless - a pair of pigtailed chicks named Carole and Paula playing acoustic guitars and singing standard tunes. Carole was more talented, but I thought Paula was hotter. But. once you scratched the surface, it was Reefer Madness from start to finish.

Back then, two girls that sing like Joan Baez wasn't viewed as particularly scary, but we see when Joan went. And I think the 'Magic Garden' was mainly a mushroom patch. The dancing flowers, the Astro Turf, and the furry sidekick with a Brooklyn accent? What the hell was going on in this show?!!! How I didn't move to San Francisco as soon as i finished high school after watching this my entire childhood is beyond me....I checked up on them to see what they're doing now. Carole dropped her acoustic, and now lives on a commune in Oregon. Like many 70's hippies, Paula went Yuppie in the 80's, and now she's known as Mrs. Bernie Madoff. OK, maybe not......

Did they have this show on down here? Let me know. If not, through the 'magic' of YouTube, I have a clip for your perusal. Breathe deep The gathering gloom, Watch lights fade From every room, Bedsitter people Look back and lamentAnother day's useless Energy spent, Impassioned loversWrestle as one , Lonely man cries for love And has none, New mother picks up And suckles her son. Senior citizens Wish they were young.........Cold hearted orb That rules the night, Removes the colours From our sight, Red is gray and Yellow white, But we decide Which is right And Which is an Illusion.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKqXECyLSgA

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