1972 Songs: Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (67669)
United States
July 3, 2022 10:55am CST
Oh, and speaking of songs you may be sick of hearing (see today’s 1982 song), going back 50 years to 1972 I present today’s tune that you’ll probably hear on an oldies station today. Fifty years later. Music isn’t milk, so it doesn’t go sour after a certain date. Sometimes not even after hearing the song a million times. Case in point: today’s tune.
Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) - Looking Glass
Ever wondered why this had a parenthetical title? Remember that Manilow syrup song “Mandy”? In 1971 it was a hit for Scott English …as “Brandy.” To avoid confusion, Looking Glass, a band formed at Rutgers University in New Jersey, gave theirs a longer title. Later Manilow re-named the “Brandy” he recorded as “Mandy.”
Confused? Oh, wait, I’m not through! I used this band in my “NOT One-Hit Wonder Bands You Think ARE” countdown a few years ago. That’s right, Looking Glass actually had another hit: “Jimmy Loves Mary-Ann.”
More than you need? Okay. Enjoy this terrific, enduring song one more time.
Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)
Written by Elliot Lurie
Recorded by Looking Glass
From Looking Glass, 1972
(Today’s 1982 song: “Come on Eileen”)
My life, my love, and my lady is the sea:
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@dgobucks226 (35552)
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3 Jul 22
A playlist favorite for me. Songs about sailors and sailing are cool! See: Sloop John B., A Pirate Looks at Forty and Sail on Sailor for proof of that. Gee perhaps a favorite song trivia list, hmm... 
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@FourWalls (67669)
• United States
3 Jul 22
Sounds good to me. Don’t forget “I’m Your Captain.” 
Just NO to “In the Navy”!! They actually played that for us a couple of times in boot camp. 
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@FourWalls (67669)
• United States
3 Jul 22
It’s the New Jersey connection, right? 
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@NJChicaa (119503)
• United States
3 Jul 22
@FourWalls I remember hearing this song being covered in a beachfront bar called The Beachcomber back in my heyday of Sunday Fundays in Seaside. I wish I could remember which group it was that sang it and exposed me to it for the first time.
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@yanzalong (18988)
• Indonesia
4 Jul 22
I was still in Junior High School in 1972.
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@FourWalls (67669)
• United States
4 Jul 22
I don’t know that I’d even made it out of elementary school in 1972.
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@TheHorse (218397)
• Walnut Creek, California
4 Jul 22
@FourWalls I don't know that I was born yet in 1972.
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@RasmaSandra (79618)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Jul 22
Love the song and heard it plenty of times on the radio
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@FourWalls (67669)
• United States
4 Jul 22
It’s one that certainly still gets a lot of airplay.
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@TheHorse (218397)
• Walnut Creek, California
4 Jul 22
@FourWalls Happily, I don't listen to that station.
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@xFiacre (12961)
• Ireland
3 Jul 22
@fourwalls Thanks for settling that. I shall quote you at the next quiz night when asked who sang Mandy and I say “Manilow, but Scott English … Brandy …” It’s Brandy that I remember better that Mandy.
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@FourWalls (67669)
• United States
3 Jul 22
You’re welcome. Here’s your tangible proof, too!
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@xander6464 (44148)
• Wapello, Iowa
4 Jul 22
And I forgot rum! That's what sailors order the most.
It's possible they didn't have tequila but very doubtful.
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@FourWalls (67669)
• United States
4 Jul 22
Yo ho ho. See above: in order for her to serve them they have to ask for it. Not her fault.
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@xander6464 (44148)
• Wapello, Iowa
4 Jul 22
@FourWalls I forgot Gin, too. Probably because I don't like it. Not that I have anything against it, I just can't get used to the flavor of pine needle-flavored battery acid.
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@FourWalls (67669)
• United States
4 Jul 22
Brandy you’re a fine song, what a classic tune you would be
But it’s causing diarrhea for Pony
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