Playing Three Dog Night's "Joy To The World" yesterday caused me to remember a moment in junior high - seventh grade, I think. The teacher asked what we wanted to do and someone said, "Sing."
And then no one was going to sing. Too shy and self-conscious. And it wasn't Music class, it was just a down-time in some other class - Ohio History, maybe.
Then a girl named Linda Taylor suggested we sing "Joy To The World," and she began: "Jeremiah was a bullfrog - A very good friend of mine..."
But then no one joined in, and then she got shy, and stopped.
They used that song in the movie The Big Chill. It's such a happy moment in the film, when the music bursts out.
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Yesterday it was 45 years since John Lennon was shot and killed in New York City, outside his apartment building.
(That was a "big chill"....)
Years ago, when I was first using the Internet and You Tube, I read a comment that said John Lennon was "another guy who was murdered because he wanted peace."
Existentially depressing.
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