Friday On My Mind

I'm 71, but I can still remember the anticipatory energy, the sheer horniness of being a teenage boy and waiting anxiously for the weekend to come, with its sweaty dancing and deep kissing that special girl. No song captured that excitement better than "Friday On My Mind" by the Australian rock band The Easybeats. Sung by the adorably bouncy lead vocalist Stevie Wright (who died in 2015 at age 68) and made even more urgent by the memorable riff by lead guitarist Harry Vanda, the song just soars. It packs all the hormonal intensity and longing of youth. And it still makes me FEEL. Here's a live version of the song, which was released in 1966. Play it before you go out this weekend.

Stevie Wright of The Easybeats