Song 791: This week the playlist applauds So Into You by Atlanta Rhythm Section, written by Perry Carlton "Buddy" Buie, Robert Lafayette Nix and William Dean Daughtry, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. Following my sohomore year at Northwestern University, I spent the summer of 1971 serving as a Southern Baptist missionary in Atlanta, GA. I rode on a plane that landed there on 6/10/71 and that marked the first time I had ever visited a spot south of the Mason-Dixon line. I soon found out about an Allman Brothers quintet that made some interesting sounds, and then about another local rocking group that also sounded really good, so they both got me to appreciate Southern rock. I did get to hear that sextet do at least one Atlanta concert during that summer. I headed back north around the middle of August, and the quintet began to get a lot of attention starting that fall, but the rhythmic sextet did not start catching radio listener ears until around 1977, when this gem topped the charts. At that point, I planned to hitch to California when the next summer came along, and thinking about how it was going to be, I thought it was gonna be good to stretch out my thumb in a westward direction, and it did actually go very well!
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