"Rose Garden" is one of those songs that found its way into my consciousness by accident. The town I grew up in during the '70's had this radio station that most of us kids never listened to by choice. It was still playing the same records from when it signed on in the 1950's; the strange novelty songs, some of which I haven't heard since, were the worst we thought. But since we were the Land of the Endless Mountains WLEM was all we could get, at least during the day. At night we'd pull in the Buffalo AM stations then later we discovered FM. Since moms always had it on in the kitchen during the day we couldn't help but hear it. They did play some current songs of the time but they were mostly country songs, like "Rose Garden". I never would have admitted it then but I really did like some of them! I found out I wasn't alone when one of the girls I graduated with posted "Rose Garden" on Facebook. One curious thing was that the station would never play Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?" because of the word "booze". However, every morning, promptly at 7:15 they played "My Ding-a-Ling" by Chuck Berry. I heard that just about every school morning while I was trying to wake up! LOL