#397: Everything That Touches You by the Association
City: Vancouver, BC
Radio Station: CKLG
Peak Month: February 1968
Peak Position ~ #1
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #10
YouTube: “Everything That Touches You”
Lyrics: “Everything That Touches You”
Terry Kirkman was born in Salina, Kansas, in 1939. He learned to play a number of brass instruments in his childhood and majored in music in Chaffey College in southern California. He met Frank Zappa in college in 1959, and the pair performed in coffeehouses through to 1961. As a salesman visiting Hawaii in 1962, Kirkman met Jules Alexander, who was in the United States Navy. They planned to meet again when Alexander would be discharged from his military duties. Kirkman moved to Los Angeles with Alexander in 1963. The pair founded a folk group they named the Inner Tubes. At one time The Inner Tubes included both Cass Elliot and David Crosby. The Inner Tubes slowly grew from a small group into a 13-piece band called the Men. In February 1965, when The Men disbanded, Kirkman and five other members formed their own band. To find a new name, they perused a dictionary and chose “the Association” after it was suggested by Kirkman’s fiancée.