![]() That the first example means "while listening to music" and the second example means "by listening to music" are both completely clear and unambiguous even though the second example is absurd. Currently, I study English listening to music and seismology watching interpretive dance. Later, I learned chemical thermodynamics just by listening to music. After a few days, you'll never forget it! I learned the quadratic formula in algebra from a song with the same melody as "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". You can learn anything by setting it to music, listening to it, and singing along with it. (2) Music is the greatest pedagogical tool known to humanity. I even study English listening to music and sleep listening to music. (1) I do everything while listening to music! I wash the dishes while listening to music, I jog across campus while listening to music, and I repair cars while listening to music. These examples should clarify what's going on: I think Brian Hitchcock's comment just gave me the crucial clue. Honourable mention…Take It Easy - Eagles.Yes and no. Pancho and Lefty - Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight & the Pips Medley: Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come - Tom Waits That’s Why They Call It the Blues - Elton John If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfootīurning Down the House - The Talking Heads Humble Me - Kevin Breit’s latest album Yearning Soul Rebellionĭead Man in the Ivy - Kevin Breit’s latest album Yearning Soul Rebellionĭiamonds on The Soles of Her Shoes - Paul Simon Straighten Up and Fly Right - Nat King ColeĬan't Find My Way Back Home - Blind Faithīetter Watch Out - McKenna Mendelson Mainline Running back to Saskatoon - The Guess Who I'm Going Home - Ten Years After - Woodstock version. Revolution - The Beatles - 45 RPM version Loan Me a Dime - performed by Boz Scaggs Village Green Preservation Society - KinksĪs falls Wichita, So falls Wichita Falls - Pat MethenyĬityscape - Michael Brecker - with Claus Ogerman Let’s take this show on the road - Freeman Dre I Left My Wallet in El Segundo - A Tribe Called Quest Mandolin Rain - Bruce Hornsby and the Range I Never Knew Love Like This Before - Charles Jenkins Our picks later…īoth Sides Now (2000 version) - Joni Mitchell Just a note: Radioman Jim Richards and producer Tony Tedesco posed this question to me and publicist Eric Alper in a recent show. It’s all about what feels good when the wheels spin and the wind massages. One doesn’t need to go deep in search of meaning or brood about yesterday’s nonsense or misbegotten affair. ![]() Hits come and go, but road music is based on preferred listening history. If they prepared for a road trip, what could we hear thundering from the insides of that touring vehicle? That cassette recorder is in play.Īs I jot down a few memories of those locked-in audio appliances that held our listening habits in check, I thought I’d ask a few Facebook friends (writers, musicians, authors, publicists, broadcasters, recording engineers, big music fans) if their listening tastes have changed much. In the 70s, I journeyed across America with Little Feat, Elton John, David Sanborn, Weather Report, and Miles Davis. ![]() Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the Beatles. Sure enough! I just had to wait until May and Sgt. Hoping another song fractures the hold this song has on FM radio. I’m hitchhiking, long walking, and hanging around head shops across America. Then 1967-January, and the Doors released Break on Through to the Other Side. I remember Pops bypassing Van Morrison, the Pretty Things, and the Rolling Stones with a few not-so-complimentary words. During gas fill-ups, Nat chased us down the road, past the main street and blasted from those bird-shit-covered transistors in barns near the milk cows. In ‘63, Nat King Cole had complete control of the dial with ‘Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer’. News shows were brief, crammed in between the farm report and county fair updates. Vernon, New York, Lincoln’s log cabin in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, a swim with the manatees in Florida, hunting for the Lobo wolves through the midwest, camping in Georgia, or a stop by the Hershey factory. When not flipping bales of hay or harassing busy uncles, it was time spent at George Washington’s home in Mt. We’d frequently drive from Indiana to Pennsylvania and have two weeks of downtime on the farm with Mom’s side of the family. I’m 16, and the station wagon is in motion, as it always was come summers when pops would claw back vacation time.
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