Song 825: This week the playlist puts the spotlight on The Weight by Spooky Tooth, written by Robbie Robertson, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. Back in the summer vacation of 1968, I would walk down the road about a mile-and-a-half from my parent's house at least once a week to visit my best friend, and when his brother wanted to part with recent top-40 singles after he got tired of hearing them, he would hand them to me for $1 apiece, which was cheaper than their original price. When I walked back into my parent's home, I would keep the 45s hidden so they wouldn't see them, and I put them in the area where the other singles sat. This hit got a place within that pile and I gave it plenty of listens during my final HS year as I often got those discs spinning on the player in the basement where my folks, on the first and second floor, didn't have to hear the devil's music. While listening down there, I went lookin' for a place to hide since my folks felt that when I played those 45s, I was with the Devil walkin' side by side.
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