Category: Music

Midday Music Day 42.  More Than a Woman by The Bee Gees.

Good times/great memories – cruising in my Mustang… drive-in movies… and of course Saturday Night Fever.

Midday Music Day 41. Fanny (Be Tender with My Love) by The Bee Gees.

Midday Music Day 40. Fool (If You Think It’s Over)  by Chris Rea.

Today we have an optomistic sad song and one of my favorite “one hit wonders.”

Midday Music Day 39.  How Much I Feel  by Ambrosia.

Is there a sadder love song?

Midday Music Day 38.  I Can’t Tell You Why  by The Eagles.

The Eagles have so many awesome songs and this is one of their best.

Midday Music Day 37.  Baby, Come Back by Player.

Midday Music Day 36. Wildfire by Michael Murphy.

Tenth grade year and girls loved this song so guys liked it too. 

Midday Music Day 35.  Year of the Cat  by Al Stewart.

I saw Al Stewart perform in concert my junior year of high school.  Year of the Cat  was a hit and he was part of a concert at Memorial Stadium that also featured the band Orleans [and other groups].

Midday Music Day 34.  Please Come to Boston  by Dave Loggins.

Please Come to Boston was popular the summer after my ninth grade year.  I was back in Terre Haute alternating staying with my dad and my grandparents.  The previous summer we [mom, my brother and sisters] had moved to Daytona Beach.  It was strange visiting my old friends/home town after a year away.

I didn’t get a haircut all summer.  It was funny seeing the reaction of my friends when I returned to Daytona.  When I went to our first football practice, my coach took to calling me “Chief” until I got my hair cut.

Midday Music Day 33.  Operator  by the Jim Croce.

Jim Croce is another talent that left us waaay to early.   This is probably my favorite Jim Croce song, but he had so many great ones, it’s sometimes hard to say for sure.

Midday Music Day 32.  Mr. Bojangles by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

I’ve always loved this song.  There’s a happy – sadness to it.  The line that always gets me is…

“He spoke through tears of 15 years, how his dog and him traveled about.
The dog up and died.  He upped and died.  After 20 years he still grieves.”

This song reminds me of the end of elementary school and the start of junior high, my paper route and of course fun times.

Midday Music Day 31. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot.

This takes me back to early fall of my senior year.  Homecoming and a friend of my mom loaned me his Mustang [I didn’t have mine yet] for the dance.  It was an interesting evening and for some reason this song brings back that memory.

Midday Music Day 29. Indian Reservation by Paul Revere and the Raiders.

We’ve moved from songs about breaking up to songs about a lover dying to today’s song about the Indian Nation dying… and these are the songs we loved!

Midday Music Day 28.  Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks.

The last few songs have been about breaking up.  Pretty sad stuff, but not as sad as dying.  Yeesh.

Seasons in the Sun.  1974.  9th grade at Holly Hill Junior High.  Good times.