On That Note : In Bloom
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I saw this band at least twice at the Iowa State Fair, prob in the late 80's. They were pretty darn good. In this first video, Chris Hillman may be wearing the same Nudie suit he wore on that first Flying Burrito Bros. album.
Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowing through the jasmine in my mind
I absolutely hate this as well as their song Sugar Shack. But the damn things just never seem to disappear like I hope they will.
Awesome story about the Texas roots of two popular 1970s groups, and the 1970s sound:
"The incredible true story of two brothers raised on the hardscrabble country music of rural West Texas who dropped out, tuned in, found God, and helped launch the seventies soft-rock revolution."
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-incredible-true-story-of-two.html
I soured on this song back in the 70s because it was played to death. But I was somewhere and heard it, oh, about 6-7 years ago, and discovered that I actually liked it again. Great lead vocal and chord changes. That said, I will not be tuning into any "soft rock" stations as the comments suggest.
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Damn it, should have thought of that one as it's a song that conjures up all sorts of memories for me.
Sorry, my prior entry, San Antonio Rose, didn’t count: “It must be a true floral reference-- e.g., “Rose” used as a female name doesn’t count.“
Here is a reference to flowers from an Academy Award winning song, in the first musical production of State Fair, “I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud or a robin on the wing”
And, from an audition for the same role by a then unknown sophomore at Northwestern, for un updated movie version in 1961, but with the setting moved to the Texas State Fair from Iowa ...
.. who they decided to make the entertainer in the movie instead
More about writing of the song It Might As Well Be Spring
Here is a reference to flowers from an Academy Award winning song, in the first musical production of State Fair, “I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud or a robin on the wing”
And, from an audition for the same role by a then unknown sophomore at Northwestern, for un updated movie version in 1961, but with the setting moved to the Texas State Fair from Iowa ...
.. who they decided to make the entertainer in the movie instead
More about writing of the song It Might As Well Be Spring
