#257 – Hooked on a Feeling

#257 – Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Swede

The Swedish Sound

This was not a drug song. But it carried enough drug references to give anyone within listening distance a contact high:

“I’m hooked on a feeling, high on believin’…”

I’m talking about the original 1968 version by B.J. Thomas, which is not the version that made our Dream Songs countdown list. By the time it was given an updated version by Sweden’s Blue Swede in 1974, the drug references were changed to love references and the hippy, d...