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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks much for reading and for your kind words. I still don't know if I've completely let go of the guilt. Wishing you well as you continue to work through things.

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · 9d

This is quite a read. I appreciate your frankness and am sorry for all the frustrations you encountered along the way.

You asked others to share. My mother passed away in March 2015 and I released this into the world on the 5th anniversary of her death.
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Whenever One Door Closes

The first photo of me with my mother, ca. March 1964. Which drew my attention first: Glen Campbell or Anne Murray? “Country Boy” or “Shadows in the Moonlight?” I’m standing in the hallway around th…

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · 10d

Always fun to see other charts--no doubt my scope is too BB-centric.

Never thought about that potential mix-up, but it makes sense. I've long known not everyone paid attention to actual titles the way I did.

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · 10d

This past weekend Premiere played the first show from what evolved into an ongoing series of discussions, referred to within as "wide divergences of opinion."
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American Top 40 PastBlast, 9/22/79: Nick Lowe, “Cruel to Be Kind”

Once Mark Seaman and I agreed to “debate” the merits of AT40 lists from the 70s and 80s (now over four years ago), there was the matter of making my first selection for discussion. I el…

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · 12d

Sounds like a great show! I saw Suzanne Vega at the Colonial three-plus years ago--it's definitely a nice venue.

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · 17d

How about something good that's happened as a result of scrolling through Facebook?
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Forgotten Albums: Camera Obscura, Let’s Get Out Of This Country

There are many days when I question the wisdom of continuing to visit Facebook on an ongoing basis. I post daily Wordle results in a couple of places and share links to these pieces when I get my a…

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · 27d

I'll guess New Frontier by Donald Fagen.

Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Sep 10

Start-of-the-school-year ain't what it used to be, so I'm thinking about some of the times when it was.
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American Top 40 PastBlast, 9/8/84: Madonna, “Lucky Star”

Long, long ago, the beginning of the college year was energizing, exciting, fun. The hint of change in weather, the new folks you’d meet–there was just something in the air that felt di…

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hard to fathom that the albums addressed within are on the cusp of becoming a half-century old.
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Stereo Review In Review: August 1976

This is the farthest back in time I have yet gone for one of these looks back. While I don’t recall anything from this issue, it’s likely it was still in the house when I began perusing Dad’s SR ma…

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Aug 21

The Rothberg is indeed fab. Also adore Sucked Out, which tbh has never left my brain.

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Aug 20

Why, yes, there are changes a-plenty in the air...
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I Can’t Trace Time

Today is the first day of class at my institution. It’s a weird one for me, since, outside of sabbatical terms, it’s the first time I’m not going to be in the classroom on day one…

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Aug 20

I read it this morning—fun looking back (longingly?) at obscure September callups…

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Could've Been Anyone

YouTube video by Aimee Mann - Topic

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Aug 13

Seeing friends, losing friends, great joy, and great sadness.
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Reflections, Coming Through The Radio

This past Friday I traveled to Newberry, SC, to visit college friend Warren and his wife Debbie. A couple of months ago he invited me to go see 10,000 Maniacs, who would be playing at the Opera Hou…

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Aug 7

A fave concert and an appalling failure of memory lead in to a look back at alternative hits from the summer of '95.
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Modern Rock Tracks, 8/5/95

In July of ’95, I spent two weeks teaching the math portion of a science/math camp for high schoolers that my college had been running for about five years. I was involved with it (with one e…

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Aug 5

Completely on board with the 1990 association but the single did debut at #85 on the 12/30/89 Hot 100. (Pretty sure I heard it that December.)

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Aug 4

Six years ago I wrote a fair amount about music from 1989. Hope you don't mind me sharing a post about some Hot 100 hits from the week following the one you've explored in yours.
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It’s Only Life After All

Thirty years ago today, I took a rental car south from San Jose, connected with the coastal highway at Monterey and continued down about as far as Big Sur. We’d had non-stop sun in the Bay Ar…

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Aug 2

Another helping of arcane AT40 trivia, but at least there's some fine early 80s funk accompanying it.
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American Top 40 PastBlast, 8/7/82: The Gap Band, “Early in the Morning”

I became an avid, ardent listener of American Top 40 in the late winter of 1976. Since it’s always been very much my nature to seek out patterns and try to formulate rules when encountering n…

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Jul 28

It's a truly amazing song. Between this and "Don't Dream It's Over," Sixpence None the Richer had impeccable taste in covers.

Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Jul 28

Neat story. I saw the strip from time to time in my younger days, though I couldn't tell you now where it ran.

Must have logged in to the 'Sky at the wrong times today to see your notices--have a feeling I miss a lot of what I'd like to see come through the feed...

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Jul 27

Other sheets I have on which it's listed are 7/24 (as an extra), 7/31 (extra again), 8/21 (#32), and 10/2 (#3 again). It's gone from the chart by 11/27. I can recall the station playing it but i wouldn't have guessed now it was THAT big for them.

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Jul 27

ICMYI from yesterday, but it's also been updated to include EVEN MORE CanCon material from the SCNP universe.
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Songs Casey Never Played, 7/29/78

Several years ago I noted that I ran daily (and I do mean daily) for several months beginning in June of ’78 in an attempt to improve on my lackluster eighth grade performance on the school c…

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Jul 26

From the summer of Grease, six songs that looked longingly up the charts in hopes of more love:
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Songs Casey Never Played, 7/29/78

Several years ago I noted that I ran daily (and I do mean daily) for several months beginning in June of ’78 in an attempt to improve on my lackluster eighth grade performance on the school c…

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Jul 20

Today is the blog's 8th birthday. This weekend's AT40 show from 1972 gave me an excuse to think back on the summer I was 8 years old. Turns out what I most remember are the neighborhood kids in the new world I'd just joined.
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American Top 40 PastBlast, 7/22/72: Argent, “Hold Your Head Up”

The summer I turned 8, we moved. After spending almost four years at a church in Stanford, a small town forty-five miles south of Lexington on U.S. 27, Dad accepted a pastorate in Walton, a small t…

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Wm. Harris @wmharris.bsky.social · Jul 19

Eights are wild on a two-post weekend marking eight years of blogging, starting with some thoughts about an AT40 from 37 years ago.
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American Top 40 PastBlast, 7/23/88: Jane Wiedlin, “Rush Hour”

This weekend marks the eighth anniversary of posting here at The Music of My Life. To denote the occasion, we’re taking a look at the two Premiere AT40s on offer; it’s fortunate I don&#…

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