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Angie Baby
Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so to speak. We encourage you to visit other participants' posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!
Saturday 9: Angie Baby (1974)
Unfamiliar with this week's featured song? Hear it here.
1) This week's song is a spooky one about a young man who breaks into the bedroom of a troubled girl named Angie. Their encounter doesn't go well, and he's never seen again. Though there's been gossip, no one knows for sure what happened to him. Does your town have any scary legends that have been passed down through the decades? Not that I have knowledge of.
2) Songwriter Alan O'Day said he drew upon aspects of his own childhood to come up with "Angie Baby." He was an only child who often stayed home sick from school, with only Top 40 radio for company. What do you recall when you think about sick days as a kid? I wasn't a sickly child, but before age nine, our doctor actually made house calls. I remember him coming to see me or one of my siblings when we had the sniffles.
3) Helen Reddy said she enjoyed hearing what her fans thought happened in "Angie Baby." Can you think of another song that is open to interpretation? Blackbird, by The Beatles. And how about American Pie, by Don McLean.
4) When Helen and her husband/manager Jeff Wald heard "Angie Baby" the first time, they immediately agreed she should record it. She went into the studio that afternoon, and within 10 days, disc jockeys were playing it, and "Angie Baby" became an international hit. When were you glad you acted on impulse? When I asked Joe to dance with me. Our first meeting!
Questions inspired by Halloween ....
6) In 2024, more Americans than ever dressed their dogs up for Halloween. Have you ever taken your pup with you trick-or-treating? I haven't had a dog since the early 80s, and he was an 80/90-pound collie who was never put in a costume. I have cats now, and they don't wear clothes!
7) According to the Guinness Book of Records, the award for the highest number of jack-o-lanterns in one place went to Keene, NH, where in 2013, there were 30,581. Did you carve a pumpkin for Halloween this year? Nope.
8) In years gone by, the Irish celebrated Halloween not with pumpkins but by carving turnips, potatoes, and beets. Are any of those foods in your kitchen right now? I have potatoes, and there are beets in my fridge.
9) Some Elvis fans insist his ghost hovers in the trees over Graceland. Have you ever seen a ghost? No, but there are a few times when I may have felt a presence...
Peace and Hugs!
Great is Thy faithfulness!
Great is Thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning
New mercies I see.
All I have needed
Thy hand hath provided;
Great is Thy faithfulness,
Lord, unto me!
