--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > On another forum far more limited in scope than even this one, I > occasionally chat with a handful of people who went to the same high > school I did. This is not quite as lame as it sounds, because the whole > school had 30 students, and was located near Casablanca, Morocco. It was > a cool place to go to high school, and made the experience more > bearable. > > Anway, on this forum, one of the people I remember well from that time > has been entertaining people by posting links to old songs that we > literally used to dance to in the Teen Club during that period. It's > been a veritable nostalgiafest. Today he posted Ben E. King's classic > song, and folks went wild. > > Below is the original version of this song, followed by a number of > cover versions. John captures the magic of the song best in the intro to > the first cover version, but the last one is the best. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbg7YoXiKn0 > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbg7YoXiKn0> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4_ghOG9JQM < > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4_ghOG9JQM> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYt0ZScWZDI > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYt0ZScWZDI> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bGqeZZt98o < > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bGqeZZt98o> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM> > > It's fascinating to me how popular this song was at the time, and how > popular it still is today. It has touched so many people, over so many > years. I can remember *exactly* where I was and what I was doing the > first time I heard it. It stopped me in my tracks and forged an > indelible impression in my mind. I can remember the lyrics 52 years > later as clearly as John did. > > I guess the the music stands by us, even if little else does. >
Music is time. As light creates space, sound creates time.
