Tuesday, 27 October 2015

WAND'RIN' STAR - LEE MARVIN...



Funny how certain things can trigger specific
memories, eh?  Whenever I hear WANDRIN' STAR
'sung' by LEE MARVIN, I think of the house I lived in
at the time, and the view  from the top of the road of my
primary school, with the internal lights lit up against the
darkness of an Autumn or Winter morn.  This was no
doubt because it was on the radio a lot as I got
ready for school in the mornings.

The movie was released in 1969 and the song
was Number One in the U.K. charts for three weeks
in March of 1970.  That means there were only about
three months to go ere I left primary school for the last
time, but in memory, it seems a far longer period than it
actually was.  These days, when Autumn leaves are all a
swirl and I see a lit up building against a darkened sky,
I think of my former house and old school, and seem
to hear old gravel-voice's haunting 'song' as the
soundtrack to that particular memory.

So - works both ways then, eh?

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