120. Turn Up the Clock Radio

120. "Gemini Dream" by The Moody Blues

In 1981 this song topped the charts at #1. In Canada. And in our barn. For reasons I will never fully understand, when I hear this song, it triggers memories hearing it on the old clock radio I had installed in the barn to entertain me while I milked the cow, fed the calves, and did whatever other chores happened to be on Dad's list of things that needed to be done every day but don't really get noticed when they don't. I remember being really happy when this song came on the radio because I had wanted to hear it while I did my chores that day, and I turned it all the way up and started to dance around in the barn while I fed the calves and mucked the barn--kind of like that dance scene in that Footloose barn at the end of the movie, only without all those girls and glitter and gymnastics. And a hell of a lot more manure. But the exact same number of black people.