55 songs in 55 days - one for every year of
my life...so far.
This was the last year that my tastes
were almost totally informed by the music Dad played around the house. For Christmas, I was
given my own mono record player - freedom! Meanwhile, earlier in 1970, Dad
continued to bring home reel to reel tapes of LP's that he'd recorded at work. 'Bridge over Troubled Water' by Simon and
Garfunkel proved very popular with him and
was followed a couple of years later by a
tape of their 'Greatest Hits' LP. He liked that
one so much that he actually bought the record,
which I still have.At ten years old I wasn't too struck with the ballads on 'Bridge Over Troubled Water', preferring the tunes with a bit more of a kick, none more so than 'Cecilia'. 40 years later, during a TV documentary on Simon and Garfunkel, I learned the origin of the looped rhythm track that forms the spine of the song. If you haven't heard the story, the clip is here.
