08-10-2016, 06:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-10-2016, 06:58 PM by Eric the Green.)
Classic referred to "liberal child play," and I thought somewhere he used the word "float" to describe us liberals (but I can't find it to quote now). So, like Rags does, I have a song to plug in. I passed over this one for the best songs ever thread, because the song it's associated with was pretty far down my top 400 list, and I'm not sure about it. I don't want to disrupt my careful chronological on the other thread either. But I bought the record in 1970 because I liked both the song and the Bay Area town ( Mill Valley ), which is described on Rita Abrams' website as a place where "heads" can live side by side with middle class suburbanites. And the video was directed by none other than Francis Ford Coppola, who was associated with Warner Brothers, the label the song was released on. The first fun song in this Coppola video is "Floating Away" from the Mill Valley album. So here, for both us childish liberals who like to "close our eyes" (like young Justin Bieber, and Miss Abram's Third Grade Class) and go floating away into our dreams, and for Trump and his followers, who likewise seem to be floating away into their own delusional world.
Introduced by my favorite DJ Gene Nelson, who used to review the KYA top 30 every week in the 60s. In the 70s he played 60s oldies at "the world's greatest radio station" KSFO, which later became a home for right-wing talk radio nutcases like Hannity and Limbaugh. I plan to play and sing it for my church group this Sunday, or next. Those bouyant kids (probably 1962 cohorts) certainly seem primed to be daredevil, risk-taking Joneser Gen Xers like Rags as they got older.
In the second song, Rita and the kids "wonder why" folks like Trump and his followers (not by name of course; this was early 70s) insist on ruining the Earth we live on with its wonderful lakes, birds and fish.
And now it seems Rita is looking for another home, due to the problems detailed in the video Rags found.
http://www.marinij.com/article/ZZ/201404.../140418660
Introduced by my favorite DJ Gene Nelson, who used to review the KYA top 30 every week in the 60s. In the 70s he played 60s oldies at "the world's greatest radio station" KSFO, which later became a home for right-wing talk radio nutcases like Hannity and Limbaugh. I plan to play and sing it for my church group this Sunday, or next. Those bouyant kids (probably 1962 cohorts) certainly seem primed to be daredevil, risk-taking Joneser Gen Xers like Rags as they got older.
In the second song, Rita and the kids "wonder why" folks like Trump and his followers (not by name of course; this was early 70s) insist on ruining the Earth we live on with its wonderful lakes, birds and fish.
And now it seems Rita is looking for another home, due to the problems detailed in the video Rags found.
http://www.marinij.com/article/ZZ/201404.../140418660