Emergent Medleys
By now I figure people have uploaded pretty much every variation of every song to youtube… and yet…
I remember this one day in the early 70s perhaps? (Man – that totally dates me – but WTH). I was on my way being driven (as one is apt to be) from our home in Mandaluyong to school in Ateneo. ‘Twas a hazy day typical of Manila in the day, and after taking the short cut from White Plains to Aurora, as we were about to turn right into Aurora, I was listening to DZRJ. Back in the day, there was but two radio stations: DZBM and DZRJ. The former for the more mellow top 40 songs (in the day, Fifth Dimension, George Benson, Paul Williams, etc), and the latter for the more hard rock songs (The Who, Petrified Anthem, and the like). I remember hearing a medley which I’ve never heard again. I heard in on RJ – the hard rock station. Go figure.
I remember it clear as day, and as it’s not in youtube, I guess it’s my duty to create it. It was a medley of two really old songs: “Worst That Could Happen” by The Associations, and “I’m Gonna Get Married” by The Sunday Band. Diametrically opposed songs. One full of regret for the past. One brimming with excitement for the future.
As far as I can tell, that medley doesn’t exist in the ‘wild’. But… now that I’ve got Adobe CS3 installed, I figure I should try to create it the way I remember it.
Alalahanin… Gunitain….Ang puso natin, sariwain.
Godspeed.