Teen Crushes – Bobby, David, Donny! All the Fax, Plus Pix!
In the early 70s, when I was 12, on the cusp of teendom, I
was the queen of celebrity crushes. I was wild about so many movie, TV, and pop
stars, I lost count. Good thing a queen of celebrity crushes like me had the social
media of the day—the fan magazines—to help me keep track of them all.
[The “Big 2” fanzines, competing
with ever more ludicrous headlines]
Fan magazines had been around for a while, but this post-war,
baby boomer iteration targeted teen girls (or those on cusp). Teenyboppers we
were called, and 16 and Tiger Beat catered to our teenybopper fantasies by
offering up a heavenly host of generically sexy stars, all with magnificent
hair, all of them clean-shaven (in the 70s—one of the hairiest eras in US
fashion history!), and all of them, with one exception, white.
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[Michael Jackson gets a cover pix, but no story teaser]
I’ll confess, I was hooked on those magazines. My sister and
I would save our baby-sitting money and ride our bikes to Liggett’s at the nearby
shopping center once a month when new issues of 16 and Tiger Beat came out.
Sometimes twice a month if they released a special issue with extra pop-out posters and
pinups to hang on our bedroom wall. We’d pour over every picture and every word:
David Cassidy’s pet peeves! Bobby Sherman’s dream date! Brady Girls’ make-up
tips!
I crushed on many of the fan magazines' stars of moment,
but the center of my crush universe, my mega-idol, the boy I wanted to know
about most was this excessively toothy guy, Donny Osmond.
[Doesn’t he just make your heart go pitter-pat?]
We were soooo compatible, Donny and I. He loved the color purple, I
loved the color purple. Donny liked long walks on the beach, I liked long walks
on the beach. Donny was a Mormon, I was… not. No matter, our birthdays are on
the same day, and if that wasn’t a sign, I didn’t know what was.
I begged for Donny’s albums as Christmas presents. Cajoled,
pleaded, and promised to do the dishes and the laundry for one solid year if my
mother would buy us tickets to the Osmonds concert at the old Boston Garden (being the best mom in the universe, she did!). I even
wrote Donny a fan letter, something I’d never done for any of my other
celebrity crushes. Sadly, Donny didn’t write me back. I’m sure he was busy.
Time went on, and my enthusiasm for Donny, and all those
other teen crushes, waned. I realized there were real live boys right nearby.
Eventually, I tore the posters off my bedroom wall, chucked the magazines, tucked
Donny into my memory, and moved on.
Until this year, while in Las Vegas with my husband for a
conference, I had the chance to see Donny in person. He and his sister Marie
perform nightly at the Flamingo, year round. When I heard that, I thought, first,
I’m exhausted just reading about that schedule, and second, I am so going to see
that show. I was excited, to say the least, texting teasing taunts to my sister
along the lines of, “I’m here and you’re not.” What can I say, I’m mean.
Donny looked surprisingly youthful and fit for a guy pushing…
well, what are numbers, really? He opened with his first hit, Go Away Little
Girl. I shrieked, actually shrieked. The long-forgotten teenybopper inside me
popped out. I was in my childhood bedroom again, singing along with Donny on
the 45 playing on my portable record player. Me, and a couple of hundred other former
teenyboppers, reliving a sparkling moment, remembering our teenage (or on the cusp) crush.
[ Yes, he really did that! *swoon* ]
So neat when pieces of then still bring fun now.
ReplyDeleteJustin Bieber is the best teen idol in the world.
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DeleteAbsolutely, Berek! It was a fun, nostalgic show. Thanks for stopping by.
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DeleteI can't believe you got to see him!
ReplyDeleteI know! It was soooo trippy, all these years later (and decidedly more expensive than the first time seeing him at the Boston Garden).
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DeleteThanks for the information.
DeleteNah, not Donny but Bobby and David made my heart quiver❤️
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DeleteSee? We could've been best friends back then. You could have Donny and I'd take Jay. ;-)
ReplyDeleteLOL, Jodi! Jay was dreamy too. I might've gone for him if Donny and I weren't birthday buddies.
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