Song 756: This week the playlist recognizes Windy by The Association, written by Ruthann Friedman, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. Over the past week, in my area we had a couple of breezy days where we had some major amounts of moving air that brought down a few tree branches, so it seems like the appropriate moment to feature this gusty ride, which first raised listeners' ears in the summer of 1967. At that point I got to hear the top 40 on the transistor radio, which I would often do in the back yard during the warmer weather, since that way, I wouldn't have to make noise near the folks who disparaged the devil's music. In my HS years, I also had a friend who sold me cheaply his singles when he got tired of hearing them, so I might have had this 45 in my collection soon after it dropped from the charts. Giving that disc lots of spins on my single player would have moved me to start reaching out to capture a moment.
