Song 700: This week on the playlist you can hear Joy to the World by Three Dog Night, written by Hoyt Axton, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. About halfway through my college sophomore year at N.U., in the middle of the frigid Windy City winter months, a certain canine evening trio got a lot of notice with a tune that might have originally seemed like a belated holiday anthem. While I didn't listen to the radio as much at that point as I had in my HS years, I did still give it some attention, and I liked hearing this expression of happiness. During that second month of 1971, I took a train trip downstate to visit a just friends female correspondent. As we strolled around her university campus, surprisingly, at some point our two lips touched, and that sure felt like Joy to the World. In addition, it brought Joy to… me, particularly since that was her name. The sudden romance turned me into a rainbow rider, but around six weeks later things took another turn, and after that, Joy would no longer enlighten the world where I took a spin. Shortly after the affair ended, I wrote a song about it, adding a d to her name, and I included Jody in my 1985 cassette Going My Way, which I released a CD version of in February of 2023. You can see and hear a YouTube lyric video of that song by clicking on the title.
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