A L O H A !
You WANT to click on that arrow above.
Or DO you?
There is a sound
in my inner ear.
It's lingered there
since the 1960s.
As a musician,
a player of flutes,
I think it means something
that it echoes
down the hallways
of my brain and
being.
I hunted for the sound
in recent years.
Google searches,
Sixties radio promos.
Nada- Zilch-
Last Christmas
I heard a hint of it
on our local cable TV
system;
But I missed the
credit!
You already knew that,
didn't you?
But this past year,
from November (!)
I glued myself
to the Holiday Music Channel.
I enjoy holiday music,
but this was MORE!
This was
D E T E R M I N A T I O N !
Then, a little bird,
a familiar note
(not
what I was looking for
but-)
Whispered a name:
" Bert Kaempfert "
Now my European
friends of a
certain age :)
are smiling.
A little research
on You Tube
and Grooveshark
and the quarry
of a years-long
hunt
was mine!
That song you
so cavalierly
passed over at top,
" Swinging Safari "
is the Great
Motherload
E A R W O R M !
I'v listened to it over,
and over.
Perhaps you will
also.
But one listen
and it will probably
infect your
Mind's Ear.
So you've been
warned;
but it's a
pleasurable infection.
And who knows?
You may begin
to play the flute
for sheer joy -
bringing countless
hours,
decades of years
of pleasure,
transmitting
Ear Worms
to others!
Fondly, cloudia
Bert Kaempfert
(born Berthold Kämpfert; 16 October
1923 – 21 June 1980)