The Association's ''Windy'' is remade into a grunge song.
David Cassidy is singing on Broadway.
And now ''My Generation'' has come back to haunt the younger generation.
When Potlatch High School student Anna Vogt was searching through her father's album collection recently, she came across The Who's ''Live at Leeds.''
Inside the sleeve she found a number of authentic-looking papers, among them a contract agreeing to pay the band $12,500 to play at Woodstock, a gig list, and the lyrics to Pete Townshend's 1965 anthem for doomed youth, ''My Generation.''
When she asked her father about the album, he told her he probably had purchased it many years ago at a church rummage sale.
''We just kind of thought we had better look into it,'' Anna said of the papers. ''We weren't planning on getting our hopes up and then getting disappointed. We were just kind of dreaming, like you dream of winning the lottery.''
Though she remained skeptical, the 16-year-old high school junior couldn't resist the temptation to fantasize:
Was this her ticket to an all-expenses-paid college education?
The copies might defray the cost of a textbook. About a million of them were included in the first pressing of the 1970 album, according to an MCA spokesman.
''We've gotten other phone calls about this,'' Tom Cording said. ''Everybody wants to know if (the albums) are worth money with the promotional insert, and if so, how much?'' Cording said.
About $40, according to Jeff Tamarkin, editor of Gold Mine, a magazine devoted to music collectibles. And that's only if the album and the insert are in mint condition.
''I can mow lawns for that!'' Vogt said upon discovering the papers' value.
As albums grow rarer in music stores and more common merchandise at garage sales and flea markets, and as the past recycles itself for the present, it's likely many of those whose generational anthem is Nirvana's ''Smells Like Teen Spirit'' but whose interests lie in the roots of rock will get tricked by the seemingly genuine papers.
About six months ago, a shopper in Pepperland Records & Tapes told owner Bob Thorson he had discovered some old contracts inside a used copy of ''Live at Leeds.'' He was sure they were his winning lottery ticket.
When Townshend wrote ''Won't Get Fooled Again'' in 1971, he probably didn't expect The Who would do the fooling 22 years later.
