I feel a bit foolish sharing how small I thought the world was where people I knew sang songs on the radio or where famous singers somehow knew what was going on in my life and wrote songs about it. Perhaps these songs were serendipitous. Or perhaps I simply made them my own:
1966 Winchester Cathedral The New Vaudeville Band
Winchester Cathedral Lyrics
I strongly suspected that it was Papa Dick who sang Winchester Cathedral on the radio and was impressed that he did it pretty often. (It was much later that I learned that songs on the radio weren’t performed live.) When I sang along, I’d hold my nose to sound more like him.
1972 Saturday in the Park Chicago
Saturday in the Park Lyrics
Clearly, the band Chicago had been inspired by Freedom Park in Charlotte when they wrote Saturday in the Park in 1972.
1975 Philadelphia Freedom Elton John
Philadelphia Freedom
By the time Elton John’s Philadelphia Freedom was released in 1975, I was aware of how absurd it was for me to think it was meant as a tribute to our move. Still, I found the fantasy comforting.
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