First song
Rob and I are eating dinner at a hip little café (Northstar in Clintonville). A song comes on over the speakers that I recognize and I try to place it. I think it's from the late 60's or early '70's. rfunk thinks it's from the early '60's.
"It sounds like the Beatles," he says.
"Yeah, it does have that Mersey sound. But I think it's American. He's talking about Massachusetts*. Maybe it is from the early '60's. But I know I heard it in the '70's."
"You weren't listening to music in the early '60's."
"Well, that's true. Not until the mid '60's. The first song I heard went 'whish-WHOOSH...whish-WHOOSH...whish-WHOOSH'. I know this, because when my little brother was born my mom got a record of the sounds a baby hears in the womb. It's supposed to make babies feel safe and remember the old home they just got kicked out of."
"Did it remind you of the old home?"
"No, I was six. I couldn't remember back that far. It just creeped me out."
*The song turned out to be Massachusetts by the Bee Gees, 1967. It inspired me to make a new Mersey Beat station on Pandora: Herman's Hermits, The Hollies, The Dave Clark Five, The Zombies, Gerry and the Pacemakers.
"It sounds like the Beatles," he says.
"Yeah, it does have that Mersey sound. But I think it's American. He's talking about Massachusetts*. Maybe it is from the early '60's. But I know I heard it in the '70's."
"You weren't listening to music in the early '60's."
"Well, that's true. Not until the mid '60's. The first song I heard went 'whish-WHOOSH...whish-WHOOSH...whish-WHOOSH'. I know this, because when my little brother was born my mom got a record of the sounds a baby hears in the womb. It's supposed to make babies feel safe and remember the old home they just got kicked out of."
"Did it remind you of the old home?"
"No, I was six. I couldn't remember back that far. It just creeped me out."
*The song turned out to be Massachusetts by the Bee Gees, 1967. It inspired me to make a new Mersey Beat station on Pandora: Herman's Hermits, The Hollies, The Dave Clark Five, The Zombies, Gerry and the Pacemakers.