A Fine Day in History
I initially posted this a few years back after my dad passed away, but I realized that it actually fit a lot of events extremely well, and so I've posted it on a variety of occasions. I'll get to today's appropriate occasion in a moment.
This is the Phil Och's song, "When I'm Gone." It's not his version, though, but an absolutely exquisite cover by two groups, Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie. I first heard it years ago when the long-running Saturday night show, The Midnight Special on the classical music station WMFT in Chicago played it as their closing song each week. They used it for a great many years, though have changed hosts in recent years, but they were still using it up to then.
My folks absolutely loved the song. Loved it. They enjoyed The Midnight Special a great deal although they liked it more in its earlier years and not the selections as much in its (and their) later years. But they always listened and, if not always all the way through, they always made sure to listen to the ending, just to be sure to hear The Song.
And that's the occasion we have for today. It's the anniversary of when they got married, 81 years ago. (And yes, despite being March 26, 1944, it snowed. Hey, it was Chicago.) They had a pretty good run on their own, and were married for 66 years.
The song is about all the things to do in life now, because this is your chance to see them through.
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