Only watched Two Lane Blacktop fairly recently, I thought it had some kind of creepy baggage in it. I guess that mightnât have been so apparent at the time. It certainly had some of that early 70s road movie vibe that makes you nostalgic for something you never experienced.
When I was around 18 or 19, younger British female teenagers - and pre-teens (perhaps more so) - would wet their knickers over these guys.
I gather they had some US top ten hits. Not sure if this was one of them but itâs maybe what they are most remembered for here.
Bye Bye Baby, indeed.
For some reason, there were fans in Wichita, Kansas. Mainly this is the song they chose on the jukebox at Pizza Hut.
That may be the least appealing set of five words Iâve seen all week.
Trust me. Pizza Hut circa 1975 was good pizza. When they started to really branch out across the country is when it all went downhill, quickly replaced by Godfatherâs Pizza. And you know, it followed suit several years later.
Wow. Sixty-five is too young.
I love that my husband, who was never a fan, thought they were from Michigan. I was like, didnât the clothes kind of tip you off? The tartan patterns? He said he never saw any photos of them.
(I wasnât allowed to like them because I have older siblings, but I still get a wistful feeling whenever I hear Saturday Night.)
Umm, why Michigan (of all places)?
I think there is a Bay City, MI. (Still makes me laugh.)
Ah - makes some sense, I suppose. And my research reveals that you can tell him he was nearly correct! Things we never knew - amazing!
More successful now, the Saxons moved out of the Longmuirsâ back room to practise in Hermiston at a church. They played a couple of contemporary Kinks numbers but favoured American songs, including a new one: âC.C. Riderâ by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. Desiring a better name for the band, they settled on âRollersâ, but needed a more powerful American-sounding term in front of that. Derek Longmuir threw a dart at a map of the United States, landing first on Arkansas. This did not meet anyoneâs approval, so a second dart was thrown. It landed near Bay City, Michigan. The band agreed on the name, the Bay City Rollers.[10]
Aha! I knew it! He was really a fan! 
(He was puzzled by the use of their song in So I Married an Axe Murderer, so maybe he heard that story on the radio when he was twelve and got the facts mixed up?)
Even worse for me: The pasta at Olive Garden.
Thin and crispy, or thick and chewy? 
to me, peak pizza hut was the mid-80s priazzo which had a fantastic pair of crusts, different from any other dough they made, plus a deep and flavorful seasoning that went into the sauce. i actually cried when they discontinued it.
the manager at my hometown pizza hut gave me a box of seasoning packets that was leftover after the hut discontinued the product. i kept them in the freezer and used that to supplement the seasonings in our homemade pies for ten years afterwards.
Iâm laughing right now, many miles south of âthe thumbâ.
IIRC, this was around the time T&C was introduced, so it was very popular (and tasted nothing like the pan pizzas theyâve had for years). I was outvoted most of the time, Thin & Crispy, by my two brothers. Sometimes my mom & dad would have to break the tie.
Well nuts. There goes our chance to do the Hump. Only 57, RIP.
I wonder whatever happened to this? (This was before the current BBS)
