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RonPrice 31 Tue Jan 1 2008 07:04:00
THE SENSE OF CERTITUDE
By the time I graduated from university in 1966 at the age of 21 I owned two LP albums. One was given to me by my mother after my father’s death in May 1965. The LP was Handel ’s Messiah. That LP was symbolic of the classical music influences from my parents in the years of my life from 1944 to 1966. The other LP I bought in the late summer of 1965 or early autumn, the first weeks of my final year at university in an honours sociology course. The album was Barrie McGuire’s The Eve of Destruction. On 25 September 1965 the song went to #1 on the charts while the LP topped at #37.
Tonight, in the last hour of the year 2007, I heard some of this song as part of an ABC TV special California Dreamin’: The Songs of the Mamas and the Papas. I got a hit of nostalgia or perhaps more accurately an excitation of the nerves, a movement, an awakening, an increase of feelings in my heart1 and so wrote this prose-poem. -Ron Price with thanks to ABC TV: 10:50-11:45 p.m. 31/12/’07, California Dreamin’: The Songs of the Mamas and the Papas; and 1Shoghi Effendi, Letter to an Individual Believer,” 4 November 1937 in Baha’i Writings on Music: A Compilation, Baha’i Publishing Trust, Oakham, England.
All these songs lingered
on the edges of my life
and even penetrated into
the core from time to time
from those halcyon days
of the fifties to the seventies.
Clive James and Peter Porter, in their discussion of 'books of the forties and fifties,’ talked a
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Marl 406 Thu Dec 13 2007 18:27:32
I was a huge fan of the Mamas and the Papas back in the 60's. From time to time, when I like to play that era of music in my home, I will put on a cd that I have of them entitled, "The Best Of The Mamas and The Papas". Mama Cass' voice was always the powerhouse of that group. I was so crushed when she passed away, because she died at such an early age, and she was in the music business when the business was not so artifical as it is in this timeframe, such as putting so much importance on a person's physical features, their weight, and so on. I really miss that group, and Mama Cass. That was real music back then, Not like the artifical bubblegum crap that is played on the airways now a days. To the Mamas and The Papas, you will always remain in my memories of the best time of my life, especially Cass Elliott. To Cass, R.I.P., and to the remaining others, thank you for bringing beautiful music to the world. God bless you all!
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