30 Day Music Challenge: Day 2 – A Song With a Number In the Title

this is the only way I’d ever heard it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2ZRSwul7cE

Kelly Sucy I had never heard of that show. Gina Torres, huh.

Rob Wynne it was the theme of Jack of All Trades sister show Cleopatra 2525

Yeah -- that was on Fox late -- I remember watching both after closing shifts at Starbucks 15-ish years ago, so about midnight or 12:30?

Deborah: According to Robert Lamm, who wrote it:

“I was living with a bunch of hippies up above Sunset Strip. One of the advantages of this particular house was that it was in the Hollywood Hills and I could look out over the city late at night. I wanted to try to describe the process of writing the song that I was writing. So, ‘waiting for the break of day, searching for something to say, flashing lights against the sky’ -- there was a neon sign across the city. That song came from the fact that it was 25 or 6 to 4 a.m. in the morning when I looked at my watch -- I was looking for a line to finish the chorus.

Most songs that were written, especially in the early days, whenever I got them to the band and we started rehearsing them, that’s when the songs took shape -- once these guys got hold of them. There was definitely a lot of raw material, I thought it was a song when I wrote the words down, I wrote the changes down and I brought the charts to rehearsal, but it wasn’t really a song until they all played it.”

Angela Margitan My brain can’t process this right now. I think I need some chocolate to adjust. 😀