What the hell is going on in the song “Band of Gold?”

^^^ She wants him to love her

He tried to have sex with her but couldn't perform... probably closeted

OP, could you just shut the fuck up while I'm mourning my dead brother Liam?

Per the song’s co-writer Lamont Dozier,

“he couldn’t perform on his wedding night because he had other issues about his sexuality. I’ll put it that way.

It was about this guy that was basically gay, and he couldn’t perform. He loved her, but he couldn’t do what he was supposed to as a groom, as her new husband”.

I’m sorry Freda—could you not perform because you were fucking your little brother?

I like Belinda Carlisle’s version.

So r4 it is a closeted marriage. Amazing that the topic was openly breached in 1970 — in the African community, no less.

The funniest thing about it is that she appeared on Soul Train and sang a song about a gay man marrying and then sexually rejecting a woman, as teens happily danced in the foreground

^^^ African American

I love this song.

R4, But according to HDH's writing partner, Ron Dunbar, their original recording of Band of Gold clocked in at close to 4 minutes long, which was deemed too long, so they edited it down to its final 2:53 length, thereby erasing additional lyrics that would've explained why the young couple didn't consummate the marriage:

"And the memories of our wedding day, and the night I turned you away" / "Each night, I lie awake and I tell myself, the vows we made gave you the right, to have a love each night."

The young bride wasn't ready for sex and spurned the groom, causing him to leave her. And now she's lonely and filled with regret.

My mom always loved this song. I never knew exactly what it was about, but we'd dance to it. I love that song "Rocking Chair", too.

They didn't have Viagra back then.

Frieda sang it in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade 1972- it was thrilling-still love it!

I wonder what flavor the cake was at the wedding.

That’s another burning question the lyrics don’t address, r14!

I love this song - makes me think of my childhood because it was such a big hit when I was 5 or 6.

Maybe Freda smelled funny 'down there'.

The song was originally written for Little Richard but Smokey told him not to do it.

Horrible song. No hook.

The line is cut in half:

You took me from the shelter of my mother/I had never known Or loved any other

Freda was so gorgeous too.

[quote]The song was originally written for Little Richard but Smokey told him not to do it.

Atta girl

You took me from the shelter of a lover I have never known

I always loved this song, but never delved that deeply into the lyrics.

Even as a gayling I knew what was going on.

You're obviously slow OP.

Why do so many YouTube links (such as OP’s) on DL now ask me to “sign in to prove I’m not a bot,” and then go blank when I click them? I am signed in to both DL and YouTube.

"That night on our honeymoon we stayed in separate rooms!"

How does that work exactly? Were two room booked in the original reservation or was there a last minute room booked? I wonder how often this happens...

R14-Hi,yes it was a golden yellow cake made with lots of fresh eggs iced in a buttercream form the Wilton Wonderland of Wedding Cakes Big Book circa 1968.

Wiki it

The Tim Scott Story

It'd help if someone posted the tune =

Freda Payne has always been one of my names for my imaginary drag career.

OP, "Lola" also came out in 1970 and hit the top of the charts. Taboo, schmaboo.

Does anyone here remember seeing her sis Scherrie Payne at the I-Beam all those Sunday Tea Dances ago?

Miss Freda Payne is the most beautiful girl from Detroit.

She liked younger men too…Gregory Abbott was a dozen years younger than her; and she was with Edmund Sylvers for a minute and she was fifteen years older than him.

Thread here is DL at its best

She’s still very beautiful at age 80+

I was 14 when the record came out and had no idea or interest in what it was “really” about.

[quote]They didn't have Viagra back then.

But they most definitely had strap-ons.

[quote]Does anyone here remember seeing her sis Scherrie Payne at the I-Beam all those Sunday Tea Dances ago?

Wasn't Scherrie one of the post-Diana Supremes?

you keep me searching for a band of gold

Yes r41, just in time for the second rate hotel circuit.

Other lost lyrics in included the veiled, "You were a fruitcake/Like my Mama said/ I found you outside/Happily giving head"

It’s the cover Liza should’ve done after her marriage to David Gest. And Peter Allen.

OP "I'm sorry, but..."

What the fuck are you sorry about?

[Quote] How does that work exactly? Were two room booked in the original reservation or was there a last minute room booked?

The front deal asked, “the honeymoon suite? Oh congratulations. Is your fiancé a flaming queen?”

R46: autism

R46 is also the Menendez-obsessed troll who’s been following me around the DL since I said they are guilty as hell.

Last time I pointed this out, the obsessed troll said, “oh ha ha, you tried, I hope your day gets better, this was my very best laugh of the day,” or some such cringeworthy gibberish, and then flounced off to masturbate to the Menendez boys again.

R49 You gonna be ok, sweetheart? You seem oddly triggered.

^^^ and just as predicted, a little above-it-all gay sass … from the obsessed stalker 🤣🤣🤣

R51 You don’t understand what the word “stalker” means. You obsessively not d me in a thread and I replied. Bless your heart lol.

[quote]Other lost lyrics in included the veiled, "You were a fruitcake/Like my Mama said/ I found you outside/Happily giving head"

I adore you, R44

I was only in junior high when Band of Gold came out (yes I am a relic). That song i s seared into my brain but it didn’t occur to me until years later that the marriage was never consummated (LOVE that word!) or why it wasn’t. I’d only understood it as something like unrequited love. Now I’m convinced he was a raging if closeted homosexual.

No-he was in love with another girl- Camilla Parker Bowles

It's her own damn fault. She should have known better when he insisted the groomsman push the garter up HIS leg.

He ripped her wedding dress off and he put it on.

People who weren't there in the 70s always assume it was the 50s. The 70s was way less uptight than the 2000s.

This song was definitely less subtle than BoG: