We drive from Washington to Atlanta. Well, to Newnan, somewhat south of Atlanta. We drive all day.
For some reason, on road trips, Dawn likes to drive first. And that’s just fine with me, because we’re up early and I’d just as soon snooze in the passenger seat as much as possible. She fires up the first CD of the day, the soundtrack to Zeferelli’s Romeo and Juliet. We listen to it through like four or five times, for a couple of hours. I’ll fire up something more rocking after lunch.
At some point Dawn plays some Philip Glass. It sounds to me like … insanity.
We leave just after seven in the morning and finally arrive at the Dillon farm around eight-thirty p.m. Long drive.
In my ongoing search for tunes which have fallen into the cracks, I recently spun Henry Mancini’s version of the theme to “Romeo and Juliet.” As with his recording of “Love Story,” I liked the tune a lot, until the dang background singers transported it to Lawrence Welk-land. Just couldn’t pull the trigger on it.
Someday I hope to be able to master editing technology so that I can go in and remove backing vocals which ruin songs for me — “Romeo and Juliet,” “Blue Bayou,” “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” etc.