Wastin' away

Voice recording #172, Dec. 10. From my other recordings, I see that this was a busy day. I went from the Cowboys' practice to a Mavericks game.
The lack of labels comes from a glitch in the program that sometimes won't allow me to enter new terms. For this post, the only artist/group that I apparently had entered before was Bruce Springsteen.
Yvonne Elliman, "If I Can't Have You", 1978. 4,350.
Jimmy Buffett, "Margaritaville", 1977. This one, when I was separated for the first time in 1981, I would hear being played by Vince and Book at the Elmwood Inn in Rochester. They had plenty of audience participation, such as with the revised lyrics of "Wastin' away again in Margaritaville, Yes, I am, yes, I am, yes, I am. Searchin' for my lost shaker of salt. Where is that little mother?" The song conjures up images of being on a beach somewhere, and not having any cares, which appealed to me at the time. The steel drums on this reminded me of a few years later, possibly 1985, when I was working at Nazareth College. A steel drum band from Antigua came up for a Latin music festival in Rochester, and stayed at the college. They performed on campus one evening. One of the band people, named Paul Simon, didn't go to a group activity one day, so he was hanging around a dorm lounge. Sister Magdalen LaRow, one of the best people I've ever known, got to talking with him and arranged for him to get a scholarship to the college. He became the president of the Student Business Association and graduated, and probably is doing well now back in Antigua. A lot of things remind me of a lot of other things. 400 for you Parrotheads.
Robert Palmer, "Every Kind of People", 1978. It's a strange Robert Palmer song. More mellow than you'd expect, with horns, and not one of his best. 4,500.
The Carpenters, "(They Long to Be) Close to You", 1970. It seems like a lounge-act number, with the piano, horns, high hat and mellow singing. 3,700.
Bruce Springsteen, "Prove It All Night" (I think), 1978. It wouldn't take all night to prove that this wasn't one of Bruce's best. 4,650 is what I think I said.
Walter Egan, "Magnet and Steel", not sure of the year. 4,200.
Hues Corporation, "Rock the Boat", 1974. 2,200.
Shaun Cassidy, "That's Rock 'n Roll", 1977 or 78. It sounds like Shaun trying to be someone who can rock. 4,850.
Knack, "My Sharona", 1979. This one really rocks. Now that I think about it, this qualifies as a stuttering song, "M-m-m-my Sharona." 750.