One Christmas, when I was in 8th grade at Bethel Christian School in Erie PA, I drew Scott H's name in the Secret Santa gift exchange. We didn't know who had each other's names, but we told everyone who would listen what we wanted and hoped we'd included the person who drew our own names.
Scott wanted a 45 r.p.m. record of "Fly Robin Fly" by the Silver Convention. I'm sure I would never have remembered them or the song had I not hunted down that record for him.
Scott later developed childhood diabetes, picked up smoking (which we all did to some extent) and precipitously dropped weight. He happened to be growing into an adult at the same time, as were we all, so the evaporating jolliness may have had as much to do with that as with the changes in his bearing and habits.
Silver Convention - Fly Robin Fly (1976)
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Music for Flute and Maraca
You may think this guy's a 60's whacko but the music is lyrical and his unpresumptuous expression oddly refreshing, in a way you could only appreciate had you lived it (and of a type I preferred; decidedly not the 70's disco image of the Silver Convention).
Jethro Tull - Living In The Past 1969
[2013-05-07]
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I remember the song and the genre - wow - takes me way back. While disco came to represent an unfortunate musical digression for many, there are some standards (like this one) that managed to lodge themselves in our psyche. Who could forget Stayin' Alive???
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