Song 822: This week the playlist focuses on If I Were You by Wendy Beckerman, who also wrote the song, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. Seven weeks after my previous personal friend song post, this week's identification outline comes from one of my Fast Folk colleagues. Soon after I moved from Berkeley, CA to Brooklyn, NY in the fall of 1988, I started hanging out with the FF group, usually attending the weekly meetings at Jack Hardy's apartment on Houston Street in Manhattan where we would share our new tunes. I don't think I heard her do this piece at one of those gatherings, and I think I would remember it if I had heard her do it then, because I have a song called If I Was You, so when Ms. WB's IIWY gem came along, it did quickly gather my attention. While I didn't see all the motion in the monster or all the flicker in the fire, her description made it easier to picture those movements. I had decided a few weeks ago that I would feature a Wendy ride today, and I just found out yesterday that she left the land of the living on 3/18/26. If she had changed identity, she could have told herself don't be aftaid of dying, and now it doesn't matter that there was nothing she could do to help her find her other shoe.
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