Garden Party

Garden Party was a 1972 hit song for Rick Nelson. It tells of his being booed off the stage at Madison Square Garden, seemingly because he was playing his newer, country-tinged music instead of the 1950s-era rock that he'd been successful with earlier, and his realization that "you can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself".

The Song

The song, released the next year, reached #6 on the charts and earning a gold record. The song tells of various people who were present, frequently in an oblique manner ("Yoko brought her Walrus"), with a quietly defiant chorus:

Related Topics:
Gold record - Yoko - Walrus

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But I'm alright now, I've learned my lesson well.

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You see you can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself

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