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8/11/2015 4:12:08 PM
---- Updated 8/12/2015 12:10:45 AM
the time machine of music
i was rollin' across the plains in a land that doesn't remember my name. it was just me alone with my iPod but the day was one with numerous possibilities or so it seemed. i needed to escape so i hit the program titled "x" not having a clue what tunes would take my day by storm.
first thing up was Up Up and Away by the 5th Dimension. what was Jimmy Webb on when he wrote this song, that's what i'd like to know? but I found myself in my sister's car, we were going on a trip to see my first ever baseball game, it was 1967, such a perfect day.
next up was Winchester Cathedral, immediately I was on the lake not far from my childhood house, listening to the transistor radio back in the day when I didn't care what the quality of transmission was - the dj said it was the number one song that week, was this in 65? Not sure but it was when you could still swim in that lake, before the state said you couldn't no more.
Joe Jackson was up next with Steppin' Out, I was walking down the sidewalk headed for class, this was definitely 78 or so, when I was in college, I had heard the song many times in the background but that was the first time I heard it loud and clear.
won't you lay me down in the tall grass and let me do my stuff. that was on my 8 track and I was driving thru the Pennsylvania mountains on route 322, I made me a homemade tape with both Rumours and the previous Fleetwood Mac albums on it. was planning to listen to Bowie's Station to Station next as I recall.
sometimes I even transport myself to back when I was 3 years old, when I hear King of the Road and Since I Fell For You. can you believe some people think the music on the radio today is just as good? they're so mistaken. but excuse me, i must go visit some other years and i'm tired o' typin'.
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Noah Spaceship
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8/11/2015 11:47:26 PM
I dig it. Stepping out would be on my list too - blanket forts, staying home from school sick, crappy FM alarm clock radio. Good times.
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birdy's eye view
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8/13/2015 9:24:14 AM
You've sent me on a nostalgia trip now.
Back in 1986 I was scratching around, bored out of my birdbrain and I landed on a window ledge, the window was open and I could hear the strains of REM playing 'Fall on me' I thought to myself how fortunate to get this song rather than Swan Swan, Hummingbird or King of birds.....
So I hung around now that my ear was tuned up and what should come up next..... Only "I like birds" by Eels (from the movie The Big Year) It was surreal, like I was picking up some Station waves directed just at me because the very next tune I got was "Freebird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, unbelievable, my Mother used to trill that when I was just a chick - hang on that might have been "Rockin Robin" ?
This was turning into the best afternoon ever with song after song directed at me
I’m like a bird, Nelly Furtado
Fly like an Eagle, Steve Miller Band
Great speckled bird, Johnny Cash
El Condor Pasa, Daniel Alomía Robles/Simon & Garfunkel
Where Eagles Dare, Iron Maiden
Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons, Pixies
But just as I thought life couldn't get any better my favorite all time band came on singing "Blackbird" and I shed a tear when I realized what a trick they missed calling themselves after INSECTS and not birds :( :) #Birdy
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8/13/2015 10:52:05 AM
Speaking of the song Rockin' Robin, I once won the top 10 singles (45s) from WSBA for knowing the bleeped out word in one of their contests. The song was Rockin' Robin by Michael Jackson and the word they bleeped out was birdsnest. :)
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birdy's eye view
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8/13/2015 11:46:08 AM
Interesting facts about Rockin' Robin
It was originally a #2 Billboard hit in 1958 for one hit wonder Bobby Day
(I often have one of those :) )
But the Michael Jackson's (1972) version also made #2
*The 45 single by Bobby Day actually showed "Rock-in Robin"
The Hollies did a cover in 1964
The word "Birdsnest" doesn't seem to be a lyric - have you remembered wrong ? The closest is bird-stand
"Pretty little raven at the bird-band stand
Told them how to do the bop and it was grand"
Yeah, the memory goes :)
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8/13/2015 12:02:13 PM
That's because the lyric is actrually "Pretty little raven does the birdsnest dance" and that's what I said and they sent me the prize.
However I just googled it as you did and found this version
Well a wordy little raven at the bird's-first dance
I also found - A pretty little raven at the bird fence dance
and on youtube pretty little raven at the bird man stand!!
but listen for yourself, it sounds like birdsnest to me. at 1:10
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birdy's eye view
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8/13/2015 12:12:12 PM
Sounds like "Pretty little robin does the redbreast dance" to me.... but I can't find birdsnest written down anywhere.... aah, if only little Jacko was here now to put us right :) #Birdy
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