oldies
Respect your Elders
My respect for “oldies” really blossomed when I moved off Cape Cod. One of the downfalls of growing up in Falmouth, Massachusetts was the limited music stations. Before Internet, I-Pods, and I-Tunes, the greatest media outlet for music was radio.
I remember when I first started living in Boston. As I made daily trips to Massachusetts Bay Community College in my 1984 faded red Nissan Sentra, I quickly wore out the bag of tapes I kept in my back seat. Buying more cassettes seemed silly because they were becoming archaic and purchasing a CD player was only a pipedream for a broke college student. My only option was to surf the Boston radio stations. I was already a fan of 104.1 WBCN, 101.7 WFNX, and 100.7 WZLX, but my ADD wouldn’t allow me to listen to commercials, so I soon became an avid listener of 105.7 WROR and 103.3 WODS.
I was familiar with the artists played on WROR and WODS and their more popular songs, but I soon discovered additional ones. Smoky Robinson, Tommy James and the Shondells, The Animals, Chicago, Steely Dan, it was all beautiful stuff and quite refreshing, even though it was music from decades earlier. What I love about listening to music from the fifties, sixties and seventies, is hearing the influence it has on today’s music. History does repeat itself.
Donovan became a huge favorite of mine. His song, Sunshine Superman was a must to add to our soundtrack. In The Running Waves, Colin, an ex-lifeguard, was once called Aquaman. We try to make little connections throughout the book, especially with the music. There is more to it, but you will have to read it yourselves.
As for the Grass Roots Live for Today, I always loved this song. The scene where we use it, Colin is hitting rock bottom. He isn’t living for today, he actually isn’t living at all.
I hope you enjoy these classics.
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-Seton
I remember when I first started living in Boston. As I made daily trips to Massachusetts Bay Community College in my 1984 faded red Nissan Sentra, I quickly wore out the bag of tapes I kept in my back seat. Buying more cassettes seemed silly because they were becoming archaic and purchasing a CD player was only a pipedream for a broke college student. My only option was to surf the Boston radio stations. I was already a fan of 104.1 WBCN, 101.7 WFNX, and 100.7 WZLX, but my ADD wouldn’t allow me to listen to commercials, so I soon became an avid listener of 105.7 WROR and 103.3 WODS.
I was familiar with the artists played on WROR and WODS and their more popular songs, but I soon discovered additional ones. Smoky Robinson, Tommy James and the Shondells, The Animals, Chicago, Steely Dan, it was all beautiful stuff and quite refreshing, even though it was music from decades earlier. What I love about listening to music from the fifties, sixties and seventies, is hearing the influence it has on today’s music. History does repeat itself.
Donovan became a huge favorite of mine. His song, Sunshine Superman was a must to add to our soundtrack. In The Running Waves, Colin, an ex-lifeguard, was once called Aquaman. We try to make little connections throughout the book, especially with the music. There is more to it, but you will have to read it yourselves.
As for the Grass Roots Live for Today, I always loved this song. The scene where we use it, Colin is hitting rock bottom. He isn’t living for today, he actually isn’t living at all.
I hope you enjoy these classics.
Reading this on Facebook? Visit the original post to watch the videos.
-Seton
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