A favorite.

 

Dear Radio Dodo Listener,

This song, this song!  It is your song of the day- sing along with these beautiful voices!  I have loved this song since 1979, I think, but I lost my notebook: the one that I penciled the songs I loved into as I encountered them.  No, I never had such a notebook to lose, but if I did, what would I do with that list now?

Another one.

 

Dear Love Song Collectors,

Here is your song of the day, another beautiful declarative song from Tom Petty; a love song to file between Brian Wilson's God Only Knows  and Billie Holiday's I'll be Seeing You.  When my Mom dies, I am going to have I'll be Seeing You played.   For my own memorial, I will have Paul Simon's American Tune.  

Bonus feature.

Just looking.

Dear Fellows,

Your song for today is a fabulous slice of the road, the times, the places, and the people.  This song is pretty much perfect, except for the fact that there is also this song (the orange bled the blue), and this one, competing for pre-eminence in the Paul Simon oeuvre.

Play them all and send me your preference by pigeon, or bottle; or leave a note at the Greyhound station for me.  Mark it 'For Catherine.'

The moon rose over an open field.

The orange bled the blue.

Driven to its knees.