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Thursday, August 24, 2017

It's Still Magic

I've studied
Burt Bacharach's
"Bond Street"
for 40 years -

the quirky, uptempo
funky saxntrumpet
Hammond B-3 riff
that strange Eastern
flavor and the
soaring orchestra
representing
aural transcendence
- even the Gypsy
tambourine

and it's only
two minutes long.

I've played it
a million times
since I first heard it
when I was 7
and it still makes me

stop everything
and surrender
to its mystery.

If you know how
a magician
does the trick,
does it make it
any less magical?

No,-
it's still magic.

13 comments:

  1. It is not my favorite song, but I can see how someone would find this song magical.

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  2. No it does not. I think it makes it all the more meaningful and gives one a chance to look at the trick/illusion in a different way.

    Toni Spencer is Kanzensakura

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  3. "makes me
    stop everything
    and surrender
    to its mystery." That's what good music and poetry does even when we know how the magic is done it remains magic.

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  4. I interrupted my son's algebra homework with this music...he thought it was cool, and asked "how do the trumpets do that?!"

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  5. Oh I do think that there is music that can do that, but there has to be a piece of magic in the listener as well... for me it would be a different song,

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  6. I didn't know this particular song, but I've often wondered that about some other songs. How does that magic happen? No matter how much we might dissect it?

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  7. Gayle Walters Rose6:52 AM

    It is magical the effect that music can have on us. It imprinted on you at a very young age and somehow speaks to something deep within.

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  8. You gotta believe in magic. It can save us

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  9. Yes, I remember now....Very good music and has a magical sound to it.

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  10. Mocking Bird by James Taylor and Carly Simon does that for me. The interwoven harmonies and riffs always astound me. Love your capture of that feeling.

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  11. You're right, magic is magic eVeRYTiMe *smiles*

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