{"id":26225,"date":"2020-05-16T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26225"},"modified":"2020-05-16T15:23:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T20:23:07","slug":"the-song-takes-me-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/16\/the-song-takes-me-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Song Takes Me Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wirecutter <a href=\"http:\/\/ogdaa.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/tanya-tucker.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a> a set of Tanya Tucker songs, including &#8220;Texas&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z7cAycpkivg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My mother had this song on a cassette.  Not a Tanya Tucker cassette; instead it was a Reader&#8217;s Digest collection of country hits, where two cassettes were packaged into an oversized binder that perhaps some people displayed on their shelves.  This collection had a bunch of hits from the 1950s to the 1970s or perhaps the early 1980s&#8211;I remember it from 1984, but the Tanya Tucker song is from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texas_(When_I_Die)\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1978<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My brother and I, when we shared the guest bedroom of <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/30\/brian-j-returns-to-st-charles\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my aunt&#8217;s house in St. Charles<\/a> (before we moved into the basement), we would listen to those cassettes on a simple tape recorder.  Not a radio\/cassette combination&#8211;this was one of the type associated with recording things in an office, and it had an earphone.  Not headphones: A single earbud before earbuds were <em>the<\/em> thing, which was just as well as it was not a stereo tape player&#8211;it only had a single speaker.  We would lie on the floor in that bedroom, marveling in the cool of the air conditioning (whole house air conditioning, not the window kind we&#8217;d been used to).<\/p>\n<p>As you know, this was not long after we <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/10\/an-alternate-history-of-brian-j\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">might have moved to Texas<\/a>, and the song mentions Milwaukee (&#8220;The beer stays cold in old Milwaukee&#8221;), further evidence we cited when we urchins tried to convince our uncle of the superiority of Milwaukee over St. Louis.  Which I continue to assert to this day although I moved in the opposite direction when I had the chance.<\/p>\n<p>When I hear the song (not so much watch the video above), I can almost catch the remembered experiential flavor of those afternoons that summer, listening to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e3Z49araYE4\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Tall Oak Tree&#8221; by Dorsey Burnette<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LBFNEAT_HIQ\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Haunted House&#8221; by Jumpin&#8217; Gene Simmons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FZynyHW2hfw&#038;feature=emb_logo\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Bottle of Wine&#8221; by the Fireballs<\/a>, and &#8220;Texas&#8221; by Tanya Tucker.<\/p>\n<p>By the time my mother passed away, the binders were long gone, and the cassettes were in little plastic boxes instead.  I think I might have let my brother have the cassettes along with most of my sainted mother&#8217;s bric-a-brac after she passed away.  But I&#8217;ll go looking for them now as my weekend project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wirecutter posted a set of Tanya Tucker songs, including &#8220;Texas&#8221;: My mother had this song on a cassette. Not a Tanya Tucker cassette; instead it was a Reader&#8217;s Digest collection of country hits, where two cassettes were packaged into an oversized binder that perhaps some people displayed on their shelves. 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