You know how sometimes a song gets stuck in your head? Even one that you haven’t heard in a very long time? Yesterday, while I was picnicking in a nearby park, “The Wayward Wind,” by Gogi Grant, traveled out of my head and into the air as a light breeze ruffled the edges of the purple comforter I was sitting on.
Although I had fled to the park in the midst of a quarantine cabin fever attack, there was something about the breeze, the restless wind, that eased my mind.
The song was a favorite of my brother Peter when he was a young boy. I don’t remember his actual age but he was still young enough for his big sister to babysit him. He would beg me to call into the radio station we listened to and request the song over and over. Sometimes I even changed my name so they wouldn’t know it was the same person calling so many times in one day. At least that’s what I told myself.
Peter assured me that I was so good at changing my voice that no one would ever know.
“Sometimes you even sound like a boy.”
As life played out, a wayward wind blew me from Virginia to New York to Montreal and finally California. And that is where I met her. When I read in the paper that Gogi Grant was performing locally, I told George the story about Peter and said, “I have to go see her.”
“Let’s do it,” said George. One of the things I loved best about my late husband was his enthusiasm for my enthusiasm.
I called Gogi’s press contact and told her my story. She arranged for me to see the show and meet the singer after for an interview. I reserved an extra ticket for George and we were off.
“I’m going to meet ‘The Wayward Wind,’” I emailed Peter.
Gogi did not disappoint. On stage, she sounded just like she did on the radio all those years ago. It was as though her voice never aged. She laughed that we were probably responsible for her recording topping the charts with all the phone requests to the radio station. Peter and I like to think that we contributed just a little.
The song is still stuck in my head. And I’m happy with the company.
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