====== My Musical Evolution – Part 3 Book ’em Dano ======

OK, when I started this, I didn’t intend for it to be a song-a-day type thing. I promise it will speed up soon. It’s just that in thinking back to that first song which we talked about yesterday, I stumbled upon this one, The Hawaii Five-O Theme. I guess my mother was into crime drama back in the 1960’s. We watched Hawaii Five-O, Adam 12, Dragnet, Perry Mason, Ironside, Mod Squad and more. I remember seeing this opening to Five-O so many times that I had it all memorized. Of course, I was too young to read the credits back then and it would be years before I would take stupid pleasure in saying “Kam Fong as Chin Ho”. I did think that Jack Lord looked like a bad ass on the balcony in that shot. His haircut reminded me of that big wave at the beginning.

I think James MacArthur was the first actor that I recognized in something else.  We were watching some movie that he was in and I was thinking “What’s Dano doing here? Is somebody going to be booked?”  Ken told me of a similar experience when he and his son were watching Star Wars for the first time. When Luke and Obi-Wan hire Han Solo to fly them to Alderaan, Tim said “Do they know that is Indiana Jones?” Zach did a similar thing when we watched Dirty Harry for the first time. At the “Do you feel lucky punk?” line, Zach says with amazement, “He saw The Mask!”

I don’t really remember watching the show past the opening credits. I was still only three and once the song was over, my interest was gone. We got the single of the Hawaii Five-O theme and wore the grooves out it. I feel sorry for my mother, having to hear that over and over again. We were victims of technology. When my kids were that age, we’d load up 5 CDs in the carousel and shuffle away, so I didn’t have to listen to the same song 3,600 times. I wonder how my mother feels when she listens to this today. Is it fond memory or mental anguish?

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The Hawaii Five-O theme is also a foreshadowing thing. It connects the dots to [[The Ventures]] which I discovered by the side of the road in 1977 and was the thread that accidentally got me into [[Roberto Delgado]] in 2006. I’ll explain those in greater detail later on but for now, check this out, the next dot in the timeline!

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