Passed away last Sunday age 83.
A blast from the past.
RIP
When it was a new song I never saw an explanation of the section:
Some may come and some may go
He will surely pass
When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last
We are but a moment’s sunlight
Fading in the grass.
-——But sometimes the word “one” was changed to “wind.”
Today I found this——ahem——NPR article on it. (Sorry.)
They said it was “the hippie national anthem” to some.
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/10/711545679/get-together-youngbloods-summer-of-love-american-anthem
Not that there wasn't a huge amount of great music to come. BS&T, Chicago. MacArthur Park, the other Jimmy Webb songs (although I had heard his first hit, Beautiful Balloon, already).
But 1967 was the year of maximum "sunshine rock. The year before it all began to turn bad, with assassinations, serial killers, Khe Sanh, the Tet Offensive.
Of course there were bad things in 1967 too, chief among them (for me) being Apollo One, and the loss of Grissom, White, and Chaffee, two of whom I had known since childhood, as names in the space program I loved.
Anyway, the words "you hold the key to love and fear, all in your trembling hand" seemed to hold some special meaning for my own future, and the future of the kids in school with me.
Written by Chet powers, AKA Dino Valenti, primarily known for his time with Quicksilver Messenger Service
My personal favorite of the Youngbloods is Darkness, Darkness. Which was written by Jesse Colin Young.
He had a beautiful voice.....................
Crikeys how many times did they play that song? Tough way to make a living.
You have to wonder how many drugs were involved that rushed the denigration of the country...
“Darkness, darkness” is better.