#The pretenders songs lyrics series

So, вЂњWhatвЂ™s It All About?вЂќ вЂ“ I am excited about this challenge and I love researching the back story to the songs that have formed the вЂњtracks of my yearsвЂќ but in this case I may need a little help. Although released as a single to promote a Greatest Hits album in 1972 it was written by Paul Simon much earlier,В inspired by a 1964 road trip he took with his girlfriend вЂ“ Perfect for this post, and I wonder, did he indeedВ вЂњfind AmericaвЂќ on that trip? In my digital music database the most common song title to pop up in different guises is in fact America,В but this one by Simon & Garfunkel is my favourite.

Jim Morrison of The Doors was born in Florida), it turns out they moved around a lot, so canвЂ™t really be associated with any one place.ДЇor this first post therefore, where IвЂ™m simply setting out the rules, I will just include a song that tells a tale of someone, who unlike my 10-year-old self, did actually take the plunge and bought a Greyhound bus ticket for a trip across America. Likewise, when I find artists who were born in either state (e.g. I wantedВ to complete the journey only entering and leaving the same state once, but the original route map I put together for my reading challenge started in Florida and ended in Maine вЂ“ Having racked my brains and even done a fair bit of вЂњGooglingвЂќ, I canвЂ™t find any songs IвЂ™m familiar with that mention place names from either of those states. Where to start then? As it turns out this is not going to be as easy as I thought. It will therefore have to be of the virtual nature, and in song.

Oh yes, as soon as I was old enough (maybe about ten), and had saved upВ enough pocket-money,В I was going toВ buy one of those Greyhound bus tickets and be transported from one real life filmset to the nextвЂ¦вЂ¦Д«ut then I grew up.В The childhood dreams dissipated and Europe became my destination of choice (although sadly IвЂ™m not sure how welcome weвЂ™re going to be after all the вЂњtriggeringвЂќ thatвЂ™s been going on of late).В Despite a few far flung trips over the years, none have been across the Atlantic, and (not wanting toВ offend any of my American blogging buddies), that 50 State Odyssey is no longerВ at the top of my real life bucket list. Also, the music I lovedВ as a kid usually came from Americans such as Elvis, TheВ Monkees ( Davy Jones being the exception of course)В and The Mamas & the Papas. On wet Sunday afternoons when there were no outdoor chores to be done, my dad and I used to watch classic MGM Musicals, and Westerns starring John Wayne, set in every corner of that vast land. As a kid growing up in rural Scotland, I watched an awful lot of films and telly set in what we called, вЂњAmericaвЂќ. I am however starting to think it might never happen.

The wonderful post written by Rol last week over at My Top TenВ about the song Wichita Lineman reminded me that when IВ myself wrote about that songВ (along with Galveston and By The Time I Get To Phoenix), I had mentioned thatВ my plan was toВ do aВ series at some point, journeying round the 50 states in song, and here we are at last вЂ“ My reading journey may have come to an end but myВ вЂњ50 StateВ American Odyssey in SongвЂќ is about to begin!ДЄs a bit of background to this obsession with travelling round the 50 states, whether in book form or in song, I think itвЂ™s because it had always beenВ a dream of mine to actually make that journey at some point.

Shotgun Lovesongs set in Wisconsin).В I had a route map and everything but sadly when I discovered blogging at the start of 2016, due to time constraints, the journey ended. , Gone With The Wind, The Orchard Keeper) then for a change of scenery, I headed up to the Great Lakes andВ started to read my way round the states up there ( e.g. First I read my way round the Southern States ( e.g. The state always had to be the main character, and it was great. Last week over at Yeah, Another Blogger, Neil wrote about how he was going to get back into the discipline of reading books and I commented that in 2015, the year before I took up blogging, I had set myself the task of reading my way around the 50 US states.

#The pretenders songs lyrics series

Well, so far IвЂ™ve not been able to commit to theВ discipline of a series within the pages this blog but a bit of synchronicity has come about which has made me rethink.