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‘Sesame Street’ began broadcasting on this date in 1969. Most Americans know its songs, characters and presentations. Either they were a child experiencing it, or a family member or baby-sitter enduring it, from big sibling to grandparents. I learned them as a big brother. Little sister’s favorite was Ernie singing ‘Rubber Ducky’. So….
Theme music is all about being a signature song. I offer them as a signature song to establish the day’s tone. For today, I’m dropping into the wayback machine and pulling out a little theme song from a television series, ‘Bonanza’.
‘Bonanza’ was a television series produced and aired on NBC from 1959 to 1973. Meanwhile, it was syndicated and shown as reruns. It wasn’t unusual to walk into someone’s house after school and see ‘Bonanza’ on the telly. Most amusing to me is that visiting its set in the Lake Tahoe area really impressed people. Paris and the Eiffel Tower, the Great Pyramids, rock of Gibraltar, the Louvre, etc…nah. But the house where Hoss, Ben, Little Joe and the rest strutted? Wow.
The show’s title came from the expression for a big discovery of ore. Hope your day brings you a bonanza. Thank you, Jay Livingstone and David Rose, for creating this music.
Thought I’d go with something simple today, that makes me smile. Here is ‘Blister in the Sun’ from the Violent Femmes.
Today’s rousing little ditty comes via ‘Raised by Wolves’. As I was closing down the day, I watched a couple episodes again (via Acorn) yesterday. This song, ‘Don’t Mess with Me’ by Brody Dalle, was featured on the second episode watched, in which Yoko gets her first bra and Germaine is treated to new underwear. Don’t think much of the video but enjoy the lyrics and the beat. Hope you get something out of it.
After thinking through dreams and writing a post, I found myself entranced with a song’s opening lines:
I just wanna stay in the sun where I find
I know it’s hard sometimes
Pieces of peace in the sun’s peace of mind
I know it’s hard sometimes
Yeah, exactly. Some days I just wanna stay in the sun. Today’s music, ‘Ride’ from Twenty One Pilots.
One heart, so many ways for it to be broken. When it breaks, you think, “That’ll teach you. You should learn your listen. I’ll never love again. I’ll never trust them again. It’ll never be the same again.”
The broken heart comes from believing and trusting in something or someone – a cause, a hope, a dream, a love. When your heart breaks, the pain echoes through time and fiber, never truly healing, but scabbing and developing scar tissue. Even then, sometimes you conclude, “I’m over it,” but when you let yourself consider your broken heart and its circumstances, you discover, “No. I’m not over it.” And you wonder, “Will I ever be over it?”
I’m a walking classic rock stereotype, so here is Led Zeppelin’s ‘Heartbreaker’.
Consideration of my state doubled me back through a labyrinth of realizations and understanding. I set fire to a few things and watched the ashes of those spirits take to the eddying winds. Then I set off to find a new place in the labyrinth of being. Once I did, I needed different music. Here is the song that volunteered itself.
Lynyrd Skynrd, ‘They Call Me the Breeze’.
How ’bout a little Led in your tank today? Played by children…on xyl0phones?
My littlest sister had a toy xylophone. Naturally, I tried playing. I didn’t become anything like these players. From Louisville, Kentucky, the Louisville Leopard Percussionists, presented by NPR. What’s most fun about this is how they get into the songs’ movements.
Fun, Led Zeppelin music, and children. Inspiring accompaniment sipping your coffee. Or tea. Or hot water.
