{"id":34,"date":"2012-01-03T14:22:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2012-01-03T14:22:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T19:22:26","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-3-book-em-dano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/01\/03\/my-musical-evolution-part-3-book-em-dano\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 3 Book ’em Dano"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, when I started this, I didn’t intend for it to be a song-a-day<\/em>\u00a0type thing. I promise it will speed up \u00a0soon. 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.<\/em>\u00a0I guess my mother was into crime drama back in the 1960’s. We watched Five-O, Adam 12, Dragnet, 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.<\/p>\n

I think James MacArthur was the first actor that I recognized in something else. \u00a0We were watching some movie that he was in and I was thinking “What’s Dano doing here? Is somebody going to be booked?”<\/em>\u00a0 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<\/em>\u00a0for the first time. At the “Do you feel lucky punk?” line, Zach says with amazement, “He saw The Mask<\/em>!”<\/p>\n

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 \u00a0theme 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 CD’s 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?<\/p>\n

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 <\/a>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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