Come with me, back to 1979
posted in Uncategorized |Think back to those glorious days of yesteryear…and the songs you heard on the radio. Songs like:
Sailing…
Ride Like the Wind…
Never Be the Same…
And, a year or two later, Arthur’s Song, from the movie Arthur.
Does any of this ring a bell?
How about the name “Christopher Cross”?
(Okay, you younger folks, just skip right over this post at this point, please.)
So here I am in Midwestern City on the River, doing my annual corporate software user conference trip. This software company does their conferences up right–they feed you like crazy, cram the days with breakout sessions, have a casino night with prizes, and each year they have a fancy dinner the first official night of the conference.
This year’s was to be a picnic dinner at the Kewl Art Museum gardens, with a concert, but the weather didn’t play along. Rain threatened, so they moved the dinner into the hotel, then bussed us all off to the concert.
Yes, Christopher Cross.
Hey. It was much better than I ever expected! He played all his number one hits (I had forgotten how many he had those few years), a lot of stuff from later albums, and then finished off with a medley of Beach Boys songs. It was grand fun–and free!
It was interesting watching all us older folks at the concert. Lots of grey-haired types. People in their later 40s and 50s. These days, people don’t flick their lighters to signify approval–they take pictures with their cell phones, and record the concert with their cell phones, and turn the phones around to show the light. Life has changed.
But we all rocked out, and had a good time.
Later, gators.
