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Long time...
Nov. 8th, 2010 09:01 pmIn between the three documents that passed over my keyboard today, threads of the past kept reaching out to wind themselves around my head.
One of the comments to my most recent LJ Idol entry mentioned an old country-and-western song by Kenny Rogers titled Coward of the County, about a young man who is persuaded to pursue a non-violent life by his condemned father.
That got me to thinking about how sometimes I'll download an oldie from iTunes as an inexpensive way to go back in time. The first time I did that—in fact, the first song I downloaded from iTunes—was an old song sung by Peter, Paul, and Mary, titled Big Blue Frog.
Now, Big Blue Frog was not exactly a top-40 hit, not in anyone's book. It was featured on side 2 of Album 1700, which was released in 1967. And it also happened to be the song that, one evening during an intersession vacation in Fort Lauderdale, a group of us played so many times—hey, for some reason it went well with the spaghetti dinner we were cooking—that we very nearly wore the grooves flat on the record.
Later in the afternoon, I came upstairs and turned on the television, just to pass a few minutes, and happened across Apollo 13. In fact, I tuned in just in time to catch my favorite part, starting at about the scene where the crew suits up, through that absolutely magnificent liftoff sequence and into orbit. And that reminded me of the Apollo 14 launch our group detoured to witness on the road back North.
I'll let the translations stew until tomorrow morning, then despeckle them and send them off. It's been a pretty long day, over more than one time dimension.
Cheers...
One of the comments to my most recent LJ Idol entry mentioned an old country-and-western song by Kenny Rogers titled Coward of the County, about a young man who is persuaded to pursue a non-violent life by his condemned father.
That got me to thinking about how sometimes I'll download an oldie from iTunes as an inexpensive way to go back in time. The first time I did that—in fact, the first song I downloaded from iTunes—was an old song sung by Peter, Paul, and Mary, titled Big Blue Frog.
Now, Big Blue Frog was not exactly a top-40 hit, not in anyone's book. It was featured on side 2 of Album 1700, which was released in 1967. And it also happened to be the song that, one evening during an intersession vacation in Fort Lauderdale, a group of us played so many times—hey, for some reason it went well with the spaghetti dinner we were cooking—that we very nearly wore the grooves flat on the record.
Later in the afternoon, I came upstairs and turned on the television, just to pass a few minutes, and happened across Apollo 13. In fact, I tuned in just in time to catch my favorite part, starting at about the scene where the crew suits up, through that absolutely magnificent liftoff sequence and into orbit. And that reminded me of the Apollo 14 launch our group detoured to witness on the road back North.
I'll let the translations stew until tomorrow morning, then despeckle them and send them off. It's been a pretty long day, over more than one time dimension.
Cheers...
