{"id":34017,"date":"2013-02-01T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34017"},"modified":"2013-02-01T07:22:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T13:22:05","slug":"sing-sha-na-na-na-na-na-my-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34017","title":{"rendered":"Sing Sha Na Na Na Na Na My Lady&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was standing at a Superamerica last night pumping gas in -5 \u00a0with something like -25 wind chill (note to Speedway\/SuperAmerica management; here&#8217;s a great idea for you &#8211; put the building\u00a0<em>north<\/em>\u00a0of the gas pumps in Minnesota and the Dakotas) and was struck by the incongruity of hearing &#8220;Thunder Island&#8221;, the 1977 hit by Jay Ferguson, playing on the overhead speaker.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-KoqgALsa_I\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just about the summer-iest song ever written. A song that oozes &#8220;tropical&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned that on Facebook, where Mr. D noted that the song came out in the deep winter of 1977, and it was probably just about as cold when we of a certain age heard this song for the first time as it is now. \u00a0Or, since I was in North Dakota, 10 degrees colder.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s true; I remember it now. \u00a0I&#8217;d sit in the little nook in the corner of the room I shared with my little brother, doing my homework with the radio tuned to KFYR in Bismark for the &#8220;Tuesday Torrid Twenty&#8221;, my guitar in its case down at my feet. \u00a0If I heard a song I liked, I&#8217;d grab it and try to figure it out. \u00a0Which may be why I&#8217;m so very, very difficult to beat at &#8220;Stump The Band, Late Seventies\/Early Eighties edition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And yet I always associate the song with heat and humidity.  Maybe it had something to do with being a fourteen year old guy. <\/p>\n<p>One song I always\u00a0<em>do\u00a0<\/em>associate with terrible weather? &#8220;Glycerine&#8221; by Bush:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yBnfOt1h9pA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was a solid seventeen years older, married, had a kid or three, was scrambling to make ends meet, and heard it for the first time as I was driving home from Eagan to Saint Paul through a howling snowstorm.  I always associate it with being cold, on edge &#8211; I was on 35E, for crying out loud &#8211; and worn out. <\/p>\n<p>But it, also, came out in January.  So at least I got the time right&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was standing at a Superamerica last night pumping gas in -5 \u00a0with something like -25 wind chill (note to Speedway\/SuperAmerica management; here&#8217;s a great idea for you &#8211; put the building\u00a0north\u00a0of the gas pumps in Minnesota and the Dakotas) and was struck by the incongruity of hearing &#8220;Thunder Island&#8221;, the 1977 hit by Jay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34019,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34017\/revisions\/34019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}