Just heard on the radio that Mary Travers died yesterday. I feel sad that she is gone, but also joy that she added so much to my life. Always a gentle voice, but strong and just. Her songs always stay with me.
Just want to say thank you, Mary.
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Yeap, listening to the NPR feature on Mary right now.. just Played the Wedding Song and some others that i had forgotten. Funny how a song can take you from this place to that place in both time and space..
ReplyDeleteThe first time I heard them, and If I Had a Hammer, we were in Stillwater on a visit from Wichita... and it was the first time someone associated the Hammer Song with being 'communist' which totally puzzled me. Of course I worked through that one OK..
We were all in the car going from Mimi's back to the north road out of town via Admiral Road...That is a clear remembrance...The song was on at the bend by Admiral road and the road up past the college stadium then.
I think we all went to a concert in the late 60s in Tiger Stadium too... anyone remember that? I think I was not there but not sure on that one. I think Mom was and told me all the songs and everything.
I remember Mary's wry humor... and heavenly harmony..
Talking about music and memory - every time I hear "Walk, Don't Run" by The Ventures, I think of Ponca City and even smell Ponca City.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember Tiger Stadium, but I did see them 5 times - 4 times in New Orleans and once in Baton Rouge. I don't remember it being in Tiger Stadium. I don't remember where it was, but after wards some people I knew went to a party at the Jack Tar Capital House with them. I had been invited, but didn't believe that they were really going to a party with P,P, & M. Oh, ye of little faith!
I remember going with mother and dad and others to the Loyola Auditorium in New Orleans. I remember P,P,& M warming up in a side hall way with a rubber ball to get them pumped up for the performance. They were indeed part of the cultural influences that change a generation or two through their seemingly mainstream music. Obviously one of mother's favorites. serious, playful and talented.
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