Song 818: This week the playlist rides on Grazing in the Grass by Hugh Masakela, written by Philemon Hou, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. As the summer of 1968 unfolded and I began looking forward to my final HS year, this Hugh guy started giving us all a brassy view of creatures ingesting green vegetation, and I really enjoyed picturing the pastures that his metallic melodies sketched. During that summer, my family visited my father's relatives in the Bowling Green, OH, area, as they had done every summer in the 1950s and every other summer in the 1960s. On that 1968 visit, as usual, we did get to see and watch a few of their cows and goats, and doing so gave me some more specific scenes to repicture when Mr. HM's anthem came rising from a nearby radio.
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