Each moment in my life can be marked by a special song. I cannot imagine life without music.
The late 1960’s left the biggest mark. Jim Morrison. Jimi Hendrix. Janis Joplin. The Beatles early and later. Then on to the early 1970’s with the Doobie Brothers, Jim Croce, Van Morrison, Eagles and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
I had an enormous poster of Jimi Hendrix on my bedroom wall when I was teenager. His image scared the bee-jeesus out of my brothers and sisters. “The Wind Cries Mary”, my favorite song.
My first school dance playing, “Crystal Blue Persuasion”. The girls hugging the wall on one side of the gym; the boys on the other side. My heart pounding when “that” boy walked across the gym to ask me to dance.
“Riders on the Storm”. Playing over and over on my boyfriend’s recording driving back from our vacation at the Kah-Nee-Tah resort. Jim Morrison of The Doors was the definition of sex. Good god, I was lost.
The illicit high school beer parties always playing “American Pie” over someone’s car radio.
One of the nuns at my husband’s church, had a beautiful voice and graciously agreed to sing, Jim Croce’s “Time in a Bottle” at our wedding. The church echoed with her song. Perfection.
My grandmother’s recording of “Careless Love” from her 1930’s band. The host introducing her as the lead singer…”and now the lovely Mrs. Peggy Hopp”…
Each year brings new music, new singers, an inventive way to play past and present songs. Jazz. World of African, Celtic, Asian. Opera. Classical. Folk. Good ol’ Rock and Roll.
Life is set to song and I love it. Glorious.
Any chance the dance you referred to was at Christ the King? As soon as I read crystal blue persuasion I heard it in my mind. I still listenten to riders on the storm. Thank you again for the memories.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I think you're right, that song played at the Christ the King dance. Gosh, almost forgot the Christ the King dance. The dances were held in the cafeteria and the September Sausage Fest food and music is still there every year. My first dance was in Junior High School, but I don't think Crystal Blue Persuasion was out that early. So long ago.
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