Posted on 09/21/2020 4:53:02 PM PDT by Twotone
A truly great song for the season isn't about the calendar, or the weather. It's about the seasons of life and love:
Spring Is Here Why doesn't my heart go dancing?
But then: The Things We Did Last Summer I'll remember all winter long...
Of course, if you're not a young man whose fancy turns to love, spring fever may pass you by, and, if you're in late middle age, the summer may be no more likelier a prompter of romance than mid-November. Yet there is one great seasonal signifier that almost everyone responds to. You don't have to be moonstruck or in love at all to feel a certain melancholy when autumn nips the air:
The falling leaves Drift by the window The Autumn Leaves Of red and gold...
It's an image that reminds you of the cruel remorselessness of time, even in my part of the world - northern New England - where the foliage blazes brightest, red and gold and orange, just before it falls and dies:
A lovely performance that, save for one lyrical blemish in the first chorus - "sun-burned kisses" rather than "summer kisses". The summer sun is for romance; autumn leaves are a reminder of mortality, and decline, and loss:
Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle Les souvenirs et les regrets aussi Et le vent du nord les emporte Dans la nuit froide de l'oubli...
Which means, more or less:
Dead leaves are collected by the shovelful Memories and regrets, too And the north wind carries them Into the cold night of the forgotten...
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That sounds like fun! In high school our choral teacher/band leader gave us California Dreamin’ (I’m aging myself) to sing, among others. I guess it kept us interested :-)
I love her cover of Fields of Gold. Wade in the Water is good.
We had a track meet with Stanford (I went to Cal Berkeley) As we walked into the stadium the Stanford band was playing California Dreaming which had a different meaning since we were all dreaming that we would best Stanford. (We didn’t)
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