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Saturday9
I Feel the Earth Move
Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!
Saturday 9: I Feel the Earth Move
(recommended by Blue County Magic)
If you're not familiar with today's song, you can hear it here. (Commercial Alert! Just click the bugger off asap.)
1) This song is from the album Tapestry, one of the all-time best-sellers (more than 25,000,000 copies sold worldwide). Is it in your collection?
Yes, it's a treasure! And, Carole King is wonderful still. Not so recently I put up her song, "So Far Away", on Music Monday. At least I think it was that one. I don't think she has done any song that didn't truly move me.
2) It's about that glorious passion you feel when you first fall for someone. How many times have you been in love?
Three times, in all, I have. Some might call it kid's stuff, but one lasted from third grade through most of High School. Another red head. And there was Jim in HS. What can I say. I have fallen for three redheads in my life. It has to be genetic.
3) San Francisco radio stations briefly removed "I Feel the Earth Move" from their playlists after the 1989 earthquake. Have you ever been in an earthquake and literally felt "the earth move under your feet?"
I'm a virtually life long Californian. I think I was five when the first one came through. Let's just say that some part of all the biggest southern counties have moved beneath my feet. It's been a fun ride, mostly because it shook a lot but nothing was bashed. So, I feel very lucky about that part. The real miracle of as far as Earthquakes go is Coalinga. It is a small town in the Central Valley that was nearly completely LEVELED and no one was killed. More than 90 persons were injured, however.
The reason that I am using a lot of Wiki links is that both the biggest search engines are full to the rim with commercial junk.
4) Carole King is the first and only woman to win the Gershwin Prize for songwriting from the Library of Congress. Here's your chance to brag a little -- tell us about an accolade you have received.
Sorry, none for me. I'm a mouse that only sometimes roars on my blog.
5) Carole wrote "You've Got a Friend," which was a mega hit for her good pal, James Taylor. King and Taylor have known one another for more than 40 years, but have never been romantically involved. Do you have any platonic friends of the opposite sex?
You bet I do. Maybe that song I put up was, "You've Got a Friend". I'm just too pummeled at the moment with feelings of horror and calamity to go search it.
Aside:
Oh, I must tell you a completely unrelated thing right now. Five little Aerobats just flew over! Take your happiness wherever you can!
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| Well, the Aerobat in the front is too cute for words. Of course I love the Blue Angels, too. The Picture source is THIS page at the Seattle Times. |
6) Like more than 80% of the population, Carole is right handed. Are you right handed, left handed (10%) or that most rare of all, ambidextrous (less than 10%)?
I am ambidextrous from at least High School. I can't remember before then. I can write as well with my right hand as the left. Maybe even draw. It depends on the slate. On a blackboard, they are equal - on paper, not so equal. My daughter told me to draw with my right hand as it's good for my brain. I'm worried about forgetting how to draw at all!
7) One of Carole King's earliest hits was Little Eva's "The Loco-Motion." Little Eva was the teenager King hired to care for her young children. Tell us about a sitter who cared for you when you were little.
We were poor and we just didn't have sitters. I was the eldest and so therefor the "sitter" I guess. Even when mother went to the hospital with her last baby, my little sister, I was still only Nine. All I remember is that Mother kissed me on the cheek, and I woke up as she did so; then she walked through the bedroom door on her way to the hospital.
8) Beautiful is the title of the Broadway play about Carole King's life. If we were producing your lifestory, what would you want us to call it?
From Hell to Eternity, in Ten Steps
9) Carole wrote "Pleasant Valley Sunday," the Monkees' song about conspicuous consumption. When Crazy Sam looks at her crowded shelf of hair products (paraben-free conditioner, keratin-restoring conditioner, hair masque, hot oil conditioner …), she realizes she's guilty of it herself. Have you bought anything recently that you later decided was a waste of money?
We didn't actually "buy" this little piece of junk, but there was a "free" tablet that costs 10 bucks a month in fees. I still don't know what to hay to do with it! I've found a few things to pick up as Kindle offerings but so many of them are just Fluff! I'm taking suggestions on this! I guess I'll have to start actually buying books? hehe.. There is always Gutenberg. I so LOVE Gutenberg!
Your sitter answer made me smile because I am 8 years older than my baby sister. From the time I was 10, my mom left her in my care for short periods -- a trip to the corner store, while she was in the basement doing laundry, etc. A couple years ago, my now 45+ year old sister and mother were criticizing the way I used to play with her. "I had no idea!" my mother said, aghast. WHO THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO LET A 10 YEAR OLD WATCH YOUR KID? was my reply. Oh, and YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR! My mom felt I was too young for sit for pay for neighbors kids, but it was perfectly fine to leave her own child with me? Oh well, it was a different generation. I'm sure today's moms view this differently.
ReplyDeleteI must be blind to have missed this, Gal. Sorry!
DeleteAnd yes, even the LAWS are different now, not that too many hard pressed or money stressed parents can afford sitters. That's why some pretty horrible people are doing childcare. I just read about one who burned a baby. Your mother and sister sound like they are peas in a pod. So sad that it wasn't appreciated that you did the best you could!!! It's pretty darn lame of them to do this and 45? Get over yourself already, sis! What a pair.... I hope that you don't have to listen to any of that very often. Gah!
I feel the same way about Carole King and would love to see the new Musical about her.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, it's one I am looking forward to seeing, too. I can't wait!
DeleteThat tablet doesn't sound "free" if it's costing you $10 a month. Is that the connection fee? You might want to ditch that thing and try something else.
ReplyDeleteMr. Z explained it to me. It's actually a better deal than I thought, and not for the tablet. The $10 is for a Gig of access that can be spread over three things. It's less, actually, than the regular price and it's forever. I guess forever lasts as long as one of them doesn't suffer a deadly accident by water or a crash into a hard surface at speeds above 5 mph.
DeleteI'm another Carole King fan--I got her Christmas album last year and really loved it.
ReplyDeleteOoooo I didn't know she had one. KG. I will hunt it down and snag me one, too! Thanks for the head's up!
DeleteWe're kind of "poor" financially, too, so our 12yo daughter has become the sitter to our two youngers, but 9!! That makes me a bit sad... did you resent it?
ReplyDeleteI was so in love with my little sister and brothers that I didn't mind it at all. We had a lot of things on mother's farm to keep us busy. My little brother who wasn't sick, and I, played with our little sister. I always took care of my baby sister and brothers when mother needed an extra hand. Families are so different now, except if they are "poor". I know Migrant kids mind their siblings when the parents are in the fields. But then a lot of the kids are in the fields, too. All families make do as best they can, and kids like helping out, truly, they do.
Delete12 years old is a fine age to start sitting. My twins took a course that the Red Cross offered for 13 year olds and got a little certificate. It was fun, they had fun. Maybe the Red Cross still offers it.
There are loads of attractive gingers out there! A young Eric Stoltz was gorgeous in Pulp Fiction.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, there certainly are. I heard an odd fact a few years ago, and I have no idea if it's true or not. But it seems that red hair will eventually disappear because it's a recessive trait. My recessive red hair gene came out in some of my daughters. Quite a few of my mother's cousins were redhaired, or Ginger, as you say.
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