Pop Culture from an Alternate Dimension

            Time is important in music. The bassist or drummer usually keeps time. Morris Day's band was named The Time. Electric Light Orchestra had an album called Time . Another Birmingham band, The Moody Blues, had a concept album about the parts of the day. This post is what if a similar album was done with different artists music, starting with midnight, through the day to night. My selections can be heard here:  About Time - YouTube

       Since today the United States celebrates declaring independence from Great Britain 250 years ago I put together this collection. To start off, all rise for the National Anthem. Written by Francis Scott Key in 1814, it is traditionally played before baseball games. This version Jimi Hendrix adapted for his appearance at Woodstock. "The Liberty Bell March" belongs here for two reasons: it was written by John Philip Sousa, who has USA in his name and it's named after an American icon, as seen in National Treasure . Ironically, when most people hear it, they think of the British comedy troupe Monty Python. "Yankee Doodle Boy" was written by George M. Cohen in 1904. I chose the version from the 1942 movie, Yankee Doodle Dandy , where James Cagney played Cohen. "Saturday in the Park" is by a band named after an American city. Since a lot of Americans will be in parks today frying hot dogs and drinking Coca-Cola, this seemed appropriate. The song ...

  Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel started singing together as kids. They put out their first album in 1964. After five albums the duo broke up. Like Wham! one person's career took off while the other's didn't.  In 1975 they reunited to record a song Paul Simon wrote called "My Little Town". It was Simon's album Still Crazy After All These Years and Garfunkel's album Breakaway . For this project I used the title song from Garfunkel's Breakaway  and his cover of "I Only Have Eyes for You" since that was the song he sang on Saturday Night Live to promote his album along with Paul Simon. I excised "Gone At Last" and "Silent Eyes" from Simon's album to make room for Garfunkel's.  https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCHnLE0OxajEkxPswE2Ww_1jNcqSpUc_c&si=rtEPSC9Nh4ccXFCA