Welcome back! This is the time of year where we go on vacation and Sister Babe accuses me of becoming my parents when I start getting into 70s music. I tell her it’s mainly because I associate these tunes with my personal era of big family vacations now that I’m doing it again, only this time as a dad. So let’s keep the cool summer tunes going by slowing down with some old school mellow. Let’s start with an obvious one:
Let’s shift to Country. I was never big on country, but Father Bob was, and this was among the few that I liked even back then:
OK, technically this song came out in 1980, but we all know that a decade doesn’t really hit its stride until 2 or 3 years in, and the writing and most of the production probably happened in the 70s. Regardless, it’s a great summer song.
Who ya got?