Thursday, May 28, 2015
Persistent earworm alert III
Over the past week, Billy Preston's song, "Will It Go Round In Circles," has gone through my mind repeatedly. It isn't a bad song to have stuck in one's mind. There's a catchy chorus, some cool keyboard and harmonica playing, and an arrangement that's unlike any other. I'm not sure why it has come to mind so much, but it might be a flashback to KARO, the former oldies station I listened to when I was in college. Preston's song used to come up on KARO fairly often back then, along with "Betcha By Golly, Wow" by The Stylistics and Michael Murphey's "Wildfire." I'd hear that opening piano lick and "I've got a song, I ain't go no melody...," and I had to listen until the song was over. Looking back, it was one of the better hits of the '70s.