Music and changing mores

January 16, 2017
underage
This is a post about Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, the group's 1968 song "Young Girl" and changing mores. I know, what a combination, right? MO-RES is a noun that is...
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Misheard song lyrics, you say?

January 9, 2017
misheard
Some time in the 80s, a friend's little girl thought Creedence Clearwater Revival sang "There's a bathroom on the right." The song was Bad Moon Rising and of course, the...
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We will never be here again

August 19, 2016
Jackson-Browne
We may lose and we may win but we will never be here again He was young and impossibly fresh-faced and adorable when he came to our attention in the early 1970s, part...
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Poems and prayers and promises

March 4, 2016
John-Denver
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Laid low with a sinus infection I was perusing my extremely long Netflix list and decided to click on a documentary about the late John...
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Back in the day

February 18, 2016
back-in-the-day
The other night a friend's teenage daughter showed me a photo of her senior prom dress. You know, what we used to call "gowns."  It was beautiful, bare midriff and...
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In the future, remembering days past

May 15, 2015
It was 1967 and I was 16 years old when I heard the opening lines of Nights in White Satin. And then, the heavily orchestrated music of the Moody Blues began: Nights...
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If the mountains should crumble to the sea

May 4, 2015
I'm not sure Ben E. King knew that he'd ignite a movement when he recorded Stand By Me in 1962. He didn't know it would be a hit by the Drifters and so many more or be...
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My heart was singin’

March 7, 2015
Roll Me Away Stood alone on a mountain top Starin' out at the Great Divide I could go east I could go west It was all up to me to decide Just then I saw a young hawk...
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All my dreams on a downtown train

November 3, 2014
The other month I read that years ago, Bob Seger was talking to Rod Stewart about a Tom Waits song he was excited about recording called Downtown Train.  He did...
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Pythagorus, numbers and Three Dog Night

August 6, 2014
I've undertaken the study of Pythagorean philosophy recently  as part of my metaphysical reading and it's not easy going. "I'm struggling a little with the...
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