{"id":212,"date":"2012-01-26T21:31:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T02:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2012-01-26T21:31:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T02:31:06","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-25-scratchy-45-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/01\/26\/my-musical-evolution-part-25-scratchy-45-days\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 25 Scratchy 45 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many of mom&#8217;s 45s have we heard so far? We still have quite a few ahead of us. As I think about these old somgs and sample them on YouTube, i can&#8217;t help but feel like I&#8217;m dong one of those informercials for a Time-Life CD collection of 1970&#8217;s hits. Those really were great songs and they really were great times. If you wanted to collect all of these amazing musical memories, you could expect to pay thousands of dollars but thanls to Time-Life, this whole collection can be yours for 4 easy monthly payments of #39.95!<\/p>\n<p>Does every generation feel this way about the music of their youth? Twenty years from now will somebody be writing about how awesome <em>Can&#8217;t Touch This<\/em> was? Am I imagining it? Am I biased? It just seems that there was a very different quality to the music that came out of the late 60&#8217;s and early 70&#8217;s. I&#8217;m not saying it was all better. I think there has been really good music produced in every single year of my life. There just seems to be something distinct different about these 1970&#8217;s hits. Here&#8217;s another stack of 7 to think about.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Guess Who &#8211; <em>These Eyes<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sw8nXCx5qgo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Association &#8211; <em>Cherish<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k6-mOvl7WlE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nOlivia Newton-John &#8211; <em>I Honestly Love You<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ac24COCKTVM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI can remember an evening when my mother was trying to transcribe the lyrics to this song. Today I&#8217;d just use Bing.com to find the lyrics but back in the 70&#8217;s we didn&#8217;t even have touch tone phones. Mom would play the record over and over writing down the words as she heard them. There was one area where it was a little obscure and we couldn&#8217;t quite make out what she was saying. &#8220;There you are with yours and here I am with mine. So I guess we&#8217;ll just be-????&#8221; What was that last bit? If my mother is reading this, according to numerous online lyrical databases, it goes like this.<\/p>\n<p>If we both were born<br \/>\nIn anoother place and time<br \/>\nThis moment might be ending in a kiss<br \/>\nBut there you are with yours<br \/>\nAnd here I am with mine<br \/>\nSo I guess we&#8217;ll just be leaving it at this<\/p>\n<p>We weren&#8217;t even close.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSeals &#038; Crofts &#8211; <em>Diamond Girl<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RC-oP84mRME\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nChicago &#8211; <em>Saturday In The Park<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e1vIQJqZjb0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nJim Croce &#8211; <em>Time In A Bottle<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dO1rMeYnOmM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nBlood, Sweat &#038; Tears &#8211; <em>Spinning Wheel<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kK62tfoCmuQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many of mom&#8217;s 45s have we heard so far? We still have quite a few ahead of us. As I think about these old somgs and sample them on YouTube, i can&#8217;t help but feel like I&#8217;m dong one of those informercials for a Time-Life CD collection of 1970&#8217;s hits. Those really were great &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/01\/26\/my-musical-evolution-part-25-scratchy-45-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 25 Scratchy 45 Days&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[89,126,325,454,542,545,614,646],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-musical-evolution","tag-blood-sweat-tears","tag-chicago","tag-jim-croce","tag-olivia-newton-john","tag-scratchy-45-days","tag-seals-crofts","tag-the-association","tag-the-guess-who","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}