Serendipity

[Sam]

Nice word, serendipity.

In my friend's rambling bookshop last week - rummaging through one of the cupboards where he keeps the sheet music, and which I collect (only 60's, though). Nothing new. Thought I'd have a snoop in the next cupboard, opened it and half a ton of old classical scores slid out onto the floor. Started shovelling them back in the cupboard and came face to face with an absolutely fine condition Bob Lind songbook - circa 1965-66. Published in the UK, too.

Doesn't get more serendipitous than that.

[bob_32_116]

I still have my original copy that I bought back in 1966! Probably the same one, contains the words & music of the tracks on Don't Be Concerned, plus Remember the Rain.

At that time the only B.L. music I owned was an EP that had Elusive Butterfly, Cheryl's Goin' Home, It Wasn't Just the Morning and I Can't Walk roads of Anger. I played around with the rest of the songs on the piano, and when I finally located a copy of Don't Be Concerned I was delighted to find that the recordings were every bit as good as I imagined them!

[Sam]

Sounds like the same one, Bob numbers. Got the biographical notes and a couple quotes from Bob in the centre section.

[grant]

"Quotes from Bob?"

Oh, man.

Ooooh, man.

[Sam]

Ah, well! I wouldn't normally dream of embarrassing Bob, but . . . . .

...used notes in a brown envelope'll do the trick.

[grant]

I'm totally out of brown envelopes, so could you just tell me -- is he, like, being socially relevant and hip to the world's problems, or more like a modern folk poet with a knapsack full of rhymes???

Because my imagination is running wild, here.....

[Sam]

Yeah - well I'm not going to be pedantic about the colour of the envelopes, but I'm going to have to be firm about the used notes; the Ferrari's due for a cam-belt change.

I see what Bob says, first. I certainly wouldn't want anybody digging up my forty year-old quotes.