Fooled Around and Fell in Love

 

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Saturday 9: Fooled Around and Fell in Love (1976)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

Chosen because Friday was April Fool's Day.

1) As an April Fool's prank, Taco Bell once announced they had purchased The Liberty Bell and renamed it The Taco Liberty Bell. Describe your perfect taco. 

Since over the span of 60 years I've made thousands of tacos, I'll tell you what I do, or rather did, when I still ate beef. 

I fried the taco shell, and then put the cooked seasoned meat in it, the  shredded jack cheese, chopped tomato, some fresh salsa, and lettuce on top. It's still my favorite taco but now I just get Chipotlé's bean and rice ones.

2) In 1989, a British policeman investigated a flying saucer that had landed in a field in Surrey. When a figure in a space suit emerged, the policeman ran away. Turns out it was a hot air balloon, designed by billionaire Richard Branson to look like a UFO as an April Fool's prank/publicity stunt. Have you ever seen a UFO? Yes, and in broad daylight.  From our front yard at the time, and on a semi cloudy day, my husband and I stopped working on the yard, and looked up and saw a very bright set lights come up over the top of the clouds and hover.  Then we heard the planes from North Island scramble.  The lights came a little closer to us, and they stopped, paused for a half a second and shot like bullets out to the south east of us and disappeared in the distance. I've never seen anything in the sky move that fast, and never seen anything like that again. This is the last time I tell this because I think it's been asked before. lol
 
3) This week's song is about a man who collected girls' phone numbers in a little book. When he and she broke up, he'd tear out her page. Do you keep an pen-and-paper address book? Or do you use your cellphone to hold street addresses as well as phone numbers?  I don't store anything on my phone that I can write anywhere more secure, like in my address book.  I don't use my phone to donate to causes or to buy anything either. Call me old fashioned, but I like to have a hard copy of these things.

4) This was the biggest hit blues guitarist Elvin Bishop ever had, but that's not him singing it. While he's proud of his composing and guitar prowess, Bishop felt his voice was too gravelly for this song. Do you like your singing voice?  Its a pretty song and too bad he didn't sing it. 

As to my voice: Not anymore. I used to love to sing. I was in choir every year in grade school, Junior High and High School. And I sang all the time.. all the time.. as an adult until one day I made a pledge to God not to sing anymore until there was peace in Central America.  Well, that pretty much never happened.

5) A brainy kid, Elvin Bishop won a full scholarship to the University of Chicago, where he majored in physics. Obviously, though, as a blues guitarist he doesn't lean on that physics degree very often. What's something you learned in school that you seldom used again?  How to do Lay-ups in Basketball when you are only five foot five and your opponent is a certified giant. (Varsity)

 

6) Elvin was born in Iowa, grew up in Oklahoma, went to college in Illinois, recorded in Georgia and now lives in California. How many different states have you called home?  Only one, though because of the war I was born at my Grandparent's Farmhouse in Ohio, to my California resident Mama and Papa. 
 
7) In 1976, the Summer Olympics were held in Montreal. When did you most recently visit our neighbor to the north?  I've never had the pleasure, though it still could happen.

8) Nadia Comaneci was the star of the 76 Olympics, scoring a perfect 10 in gymnastics. What have you enjoyed lately that you would rate "a perfect 10?" I have mastered Addi Flexie Flips, that not-so-new needle set for in-the-round knitting.

9) Random question: Do you ever talk to your TV?  I always am talking to the people I see on TV. It'S one of the best ways to blow off some stream!

Thank you Sam for this fun MEME.

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