Saturday Night at the Oldies: Seven from the ‘Seventies

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8 responses to “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Seven from the ‘Seventies”

1. 

   Joe Odegaard

   August 16, 2025

   Hotel California on the Chinese harp. Outstanding ! Cultural appropriation at its finest. Enjoy !
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf6v59c5yuY&list=RDgf6v59c5yuY&start_radio=1

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2. 

   Joe Odegaard

   August 16, 2025

   If you like the ghuzeng Hotal California, you’ll love the Chinese harp version of “While My Guiter Gently Weeps:”
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwTfZ-A_RI&list=RDxwwTfZ-A_RI&start_radio=1

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3. 

   joe Odegaard

   August 16, 2025

   Here Brother Bill, you can post the words to that great Jackson Brown song:
   Running on Empty
   Song by Jackson Browne ‧ 1977
   Lyrics
   Lookin’ out at the road rushin’ under my wheels
   Lookin’ back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
   In ’65 I was seventeen and runnin’ up 101
   I don’t know where I’m runnin’ now, I’m just runnin’ on
   runnin’ on empty
   (Runnin’ on) runnin’ blind
   (Runnin’ on) runnin’ into the sun
   But I’m runnin’ behind
   Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive
   Tryin’ not to confuse it with what you do to survive
   In ’69 I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
   I don’t know when that road turned onto the road I’m on
   runnin’ on empty
   (Runnin’ on) runnin’ blind
   (Runnin’ on) runnin’ into the sun
   But I’m runnin’ behind
   Everyone I know
   Everywhere I go
   People need some reason to believe
   I don’t know about anyone but me
   If it takes all night
   That’d be alright
   If I can get you to smile before I leave
   Lookin’ out at the road rushin’ under my wheels
   I don’t know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
   I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through
   Lookin’ into their eyes, I see them runnin’ too
   runnin’ on empty
   (Runnin’ on) runnin’ blind
   (Runnin’ on) runnin’ into the sun
   But I’m runnin’ behind
   Honey, you really tempt me, you know, the way you look so kind
   I’d love to stick around, but I’m runnin’ behind
   (Runnin’ on)
   You know I don’t even know what I’m hopin’ to find
   (Runnin’ blind)
   Runnin’ into the sun but I’m runnin’ behind

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4. 

   oz the ostrich

   August 17, 2025

   Was “Baker Street” a thing in the US?

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5. 

   BV

   August 17, 2025

   Oz,
   It was indeed. I don’t know whether it made #1 in the States, but according to Wikipedia it made the top three in the US, the UK, and elsewhere. It was all over the radio in the summer of ’78. It was theme music for a road trip with my quondam girlfriend, a trip from Boston to Dayton, Ohio, where I had landed a tenure-track job in the phil. dept.

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6. 

   Joe Odegaard

   August 17, 2025

   Hi Brother Bill:
   Jackson Browne and Dante are parallel here:
   Browne:
   “In ’69 I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
   I don’t know when that road turned onto the road I’m on
   runnin’ on empty…”
   Dante:
   Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura / ché la diritta via era smarrita
   ” In the middle of life’s journey, I found myself in a dark wood, and the straight path was lost…”
   (We owe so much to the nuns of Saint Therese, and the Baltimore Catechism, which have kept the path so well illuminated for us).
   Catacomb Joe

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7. 

   BV

   August 17, 2025

   An interesting comparison, Joe. And thanks for the other links and comments.
   We do owe a lot to the nuns. I can name every single one of them, and as I may have told you, I contacted Sr. Mary Stella Morrissey (third grade) a few years back and expressed my gratitude to her. She may not have remembered me but she sure did remember the Odegaard clan. I asked her whether any other student ever thanked her. She said No. What ingrates we are!
   My Balt. Cat. got lost in the shuffle, but I still have my 1962 pre-Vat II missal and another little devotional book entitled “My Daily Bread.” Remember the latter?

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8. 

   Joe Odegaard

   August 17, 2025

   Hi Brother Bill
   I don’t recall “My Daily Bread” specifically.
   But I do remember things from the Baltimore Catechism.
   I have a copy here, but I think it is the copy of one of my brothers.
   I says important things, like: “Sin is the cause of all war.” (WW2 had just ended, and was certainly fresh in the minds of the people who wrote the Baltimore Catechism.)
   It is very instructive to look at the world, and history, with that in mind. (But also to keep inm mind “collective merit.” Look at a photo of the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg with that thought.)
   C.J.

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