We’re not exactly graced with all the splendors of seasonal changes in the desert. Few of our leaves change color, opting instead to forsake their posts for bony winter fingers. Luckily, our evening sky is often willing to step up and deck out with spectacular flair. Time to buy a couple of pumpkins!
According to a few of my favorite haunts, today was quite
the day in music history. In 1967, Arlo Guthrie released a song that would one
day become a Thanksgiving tradition in our house, as each year while the swamp
cooler works overtime, the turkeys are fried or roasted or smoked on the patio,
the sides take turns in the oven of our crowded kitchen, another leaf is added
to the table and set for 8 – 12 while we listen to a full-length version of “Alice’s Restaurant” that
finishes just as the biscuits begin to smolder.
During a meeting with the rest of the band on this day in
1969, John Lennon announced he was leaving the Beatles. Meanwhile, one of only
a handful of successful “fake” bands, The Archies, began a four-week run at #1
on the US singles chart with “Sugar, Sugar” in addition to becoming
one of the longest-running one-hit-wonders after eight weeks at the top of the
UK charts. "I'm gonna make your life so sweet,"
On this fateful day in 1973, Jim Croce was on his way to
perform a second concert of the day when he tragically perished along with five
others in the crash of their chartered plane. His song “Time in a Bottle” made an instant
come-back, as his other hits also saturated the airwaves.
Kate Bush hit the ground running in 1980 with her first
album, “Never For Ever,” the first album by any female solo artist to enter the UK chart at #1. “Running Up That Hill”
“But now it’s time for
me to go; the autumn moon lights my way.” Led Zeppelin
Peaceful autumn, everyone!
