Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Memory From 1970, And A Hope

During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, my dad bought the family a portable radio, to help us survive nuclear annihilation. It sat in storage until 1969, when I discovered it could receive stations from nearly a 1,000 miles away, and thus was a portal to a much-wider world. I started listening to rock-and-roll AM radio (KQEO - Albuquerque).

This song was extremely popular in early 1970, but for some reason is rarely-mentioned when Oldies come up. It's never played on the radio these days. It represents my hope for the approaching storm this weekend in northern California:

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