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WHERE WERE YOU WHEN…?
#5
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The fifth song I will feature in this series is
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MY ANSWER:
Full disclosure: I do not personally have a distinct specific memory of when I first heard this song.
I know it was Peter, Paul, and Mary’s version I heard first; and it was their version I heard the most for several years, so it is the one I remember most vividly. I’m not sure when I learned that Bob Dylan wrote it and was the first to record it.
I am reasonably certain I heard it on my dad’s Easy Listening FM radio station. It had to have been 1963 when I heard it. My family lived on a farm in central Illinois at the time. We did not have a television. The big radio in the ‘front room’ was our only entertainment beyond our own abilities to entertain ourselves and each other. We gathered around that radio to listen to, I think, Arthur Godfrey or Grand Ol’ Opry, and other shows of the day.
Many times we had the radio playing music while we all did other things. Reading, playing checkers, drawing, coloring, snapping peas, my sisters brushing each others’ hair, and whatever.
Even at my tender age, I already enjoyed the folk music trends of that time; and Peter, Paul, and Mary were already part of my conscious appreciation of popular music. I’m pretty sure Lemon Tree and If I Had a Hammer and probably Puff (The Magic Dragon) were already part of my growing repertoire of songs I sang along to and memorized the words. Maybe even Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
In any case, it is their version of Blowin’ In The Wind that I remember the most; so that is why I am using their version in the video below.
I encourage you to read the history of the song HERE.
Listen.
Sing along.
Remember those days more than 60 years ago.
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So, what is YOUR answer?
Where were YOU when you first heard
Blowin’ In The Wind?
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