In the Land of Sandra Dee (Do you remember who she is?)

jingle · 03-15-2007, 03:54 PM

Long ago and far away,
In a land that time forgot,
Before the days of Dylan
Or the days of Camelot.

There lived a race of innocents,
And they were you and me,
Long ago and far away
In the Land of Sandra Dee.

Oh, there was truth and goodness
In that land where we were born,
Where navels were for oranges,
And Peyton Place was porn.

For Ike was in the White House,
And Hoss was on TV,
And God was in his heaven
In the Land of Sandra Dee.

We longed for love and romance,
And waited for the prince,
And Eddie Fisher married Liz,
And no one's seen him since.

We danced to "Little Darlin'",
And sang to "Stagger Lee"
And cried for Buddy Holly
In the Land of Sandra Dee.

Only girls wore earrings then,
And three was one too many,
And only boys wore flat-top cuts,
Except for Jean McKinney.

And only in our wildest dreams
Did we expect to see
A boy named George with
Lipstick In the Land of Sandra Dee.

We fell for Frankie Avalon,
Annette was oh, so nice,
And when they made a movie,
They never made it twice.

We didn't have a Star Trek Five,
Or Psycho Two and Three,
Or Rocky-Rambo Twenty
In the Land of Sandra Dee.

Miss Kitty had a heart of gold,
And Chester had a limp,
And Reagan was a Democrat
Whose co-star was a chimp.

We had a Mr. Wizard,
But not a Mr. T,
And Oprah couldn't talk yet
In the Land of Sandra Dee.

We had our share of heroes,
We never thought they'd go,
At least not Bobby Darin,
Or Marilyn Monroe.

For youth was still eternal,
And life was yet to be,
And Elvis was forever,
In the Land of Sandra Dee.

We'd never heard of Microwaves,
Or telephones in cars,
And babies might be bottle-fed,
But they weren't grown in jars.

And pumping iron got wrinkles out,
And "gay" meant fancy-free,
And dorms were never coed
In the Land of Sandra Dee.

We hadn't seen enough of jets
To talk about the lag,
And microchips were what was left at
The bottom of the bag.

And Hardware was a box of nails,
And bytes came from a flea,
And rocket ships were fiction
In the Land of Sandra Dee.

Buicks came with portholes,
And side shows came with freaks,
And bathing suits came big enough
To cover both your cheeks.

Coke came just in bottles,
And skirts came to the knee,
Castro came to power
In the Land of Sandra Dee.

We had no Crest with Fluoride,
We had no Hill Street Blues,
We all wore superstructure bras
Designed by Howard Hughes.

We had no patterned pantyhose
Or Lipton herbal tea
Or prime-time ads for condoms
In the Land of Sandra Dee.

And middle-aged was thirty-five
And old was forty-three,
And ancient were our parents
In the Land of Sandra Dee.

But all things have a season,
Or so we've heard them say,
And now instead of Maybelline
We swear by Retin-A.

And they send us invitations
To join A.A.R.P.,
We've come a long way, baby,
From the Land of Sandra Dee.

So now we face a brave new world
In slightly larger jeans,
And wonder why they're using
Smaller print in magazines.

And we tell our children's children
Of the way it used to be,
Long ago and far away
In the Land of Sandra Dee.
- anonymous

OK - you can copy it and send it off to you Aunt Mable ... SHE'LL appreciate it.

Doody · 03-15-2007, 04:02 PM

I LOVE it! LOL!

I absolutely adored Sandra Dee movies as well. And..what about Dobie Gillis?

Alffe · 03-15-2007, 04:59 PM

Ah yes, I remember it well.

(now I sound like Maurice Chevalier in GiGi)

*whisper....I hope the way I spelled Chevalier doesn't drive me crazy in the weeks to come ............

Curious · 03-15-2007, 05:54 PM

hehehe...thank you jingle

pssstttt....alffe..... Maurice Chevalier

Alffe · 03-15-2007, 06:16 PM

Not too late to edit!

Curious · 03-15-2007, 06:20 PM

hehehe...man i love google.

edit baby edit.....

hsiw · 03-16-2007, 12:40 PM

I loved Sandra Dee as a kid I watched Gidget over and over again.

I loved reading this jingle, even though most of it was before my time...

stagger · 07-12-2007, 08:00 AM

We appear to be in the same age group

Wren · 07-12-2007, 12:33 PM

Hi stagger .... my goodness, your avatar is a grey cat and you're talking about AGE. I KNOW we could be friends. I turned 63 on July 1. And I have a cat .... well, a grey cat has me. I bet we'll good friends.

Lara · 07-12-2007, 01:58 PM

I'm definitely not from the land of Sandra Dee. I come from the land down under. I do know who she was of course. I too have a beautiful grey cat. lol Does that count?

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