Just a quick one after the last one..which ended up with 8 songs on it.
Not much blogging recently - been hard times for everyone recently and a lot of grieving going on.
As Odysseus said 'Bear up, my heart. You had worse to endure before this..'
I hope this is the worst of it for all you hep cats out there, there is still time for a sunny summer.
Not here and now though because the song I wanted to stick on here I heard for the first time in ages today and i sung it though the humid airless sky as i was forced to leave a very cherished friend...
Janis Eddy Fink (born 1951) changed her name at 13 to Janis Ian which also how old she was when she wrote and sang the infamous 'Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking),' about an interracial romance. She was signed to Atlantic at age 14 and this song was released 3 times between 1965 and 1967 finally becoming successful on its third release. The song's lyrical content was too taboo for some radio stations, and they withdrew or banned it from their playlists. She received death threats over it and apparently, a radio station in Atlanta was burned down after they played it.
'Society's Child'
Very interesting, eh? But this isn't the song I wanted to include. It may be commercial (it won a grammy in 1975 and I think it was her biggest hit in the States) but its incredible. She sounds so so sad. BEAR!
Still touring now and writing science fiction novels in the meantime this is..
'At Seventeen'
i love 'at seventeen'. good choice sallyfrog. x
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