TBGO

One of the most important songs of my youth was a piece by Sonny and Cher called “The Beat Goes On”. This piece of music is released as far as I can ascertain January 14, 1967, roughly 6 months following my life-changing accident. Sonny and Cher were a bizarre little couple that were begin to make significant waves on TV and the radio. The good doctors of the Elk's Rehabilitation Center Felt that I had achieved is much rehab in the inpatient setting as I was going to get And turn me loose to return home and return to school. As I've rehearsed before I was only allowed to go to school half days. I guess what I'm saying is that there is a lot of car time for me and I, as an adolescent, controlled the radio and so is always listing to the local rock station KFXD. It seemed “The Beat Goes On” Was being played constantly. If I wasn't hearing it on the radio in the Ford station wagon I would be hearing it on Smothers Brothers television program or the Dick Clark Show the song was everywhere Even the Saturday night dance which I returned to as soon as I could figure out Transportation options.

As much as the piece was played in the mid-60s it was a little later on that I was most taking by a variation on the theme. I called it voices of history-the beat goes on. That obviously was not the title of the piece because I've been searching for it on the Internet and so far I have come up blank. It's a great piece of audio where the piece is played with snippets of great historical orations take place. I wish I could find that piece on the Internet, it's got a be there. I think it's got voices of Edison when he turns on the electric light for the first time, FDR's Pearl Harbor speech, I think some part of the speech at the close of World War I, JFK's “ask not…” Speech. Very interesting tapestry of sounds spliced in with the music. I listen to it in the dark with headphones and it's almost spooky if you “fall” deep enough into the piece. I wish I could remember or find who produced this piece I'd like to listen to it again. But I digress up sorry whole point is the beat goes on, nothing stops the beat, the heartbeat of life. I don't know if the beat is supposed to be the collective heartbeat of humanity are the heartbeat of time itself always going on never ceasing never stopping. Maybe this metaphor is what I've been struggling with the last couple of months realizing the beat goes on it never stops even when I'm gone the beat goes on.

I'm in one of those weird Saturday night moods, I suppose you can tell. The B-52s had a concert yesterday at one of the local venues. I was almost seriously considering finding a bus route that would take me to the venue and more importantly be around to take me back. Like I said “almost” the price the tickets with $77 to start. I wish I wasn't so cheap I probably could actually afford this but I just cannot justify that much money go to a concert. But I really do like the B-52s but so much money and the beat goes on…