6865. The Five Americans - Western Union

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From: Western Union/Sound of Love; Year: 1967; Genre: Rock/Pop
It still fascinates me just how songs enter my conscious mind that I've not heard in ages or have been on my mind for just about as long. This one from a band that I might at some point in the past heard about just started playing in my mind whilst feeding the animals and I decided I should look it up and make it today's pick.
Kind of a straight-up pop rocker, but with a subject of a lover sending a Telegram of all things to break up the relationship. Heck, even by the late '60s it was kind of obsolete form of communication, but perhaps in using a Telegram, it shows just how cold and impersonal the person breaking up is being. I suppose you could liken it to breaking up over a text message or something similar today.Apparently they went with the whole Western Union Telegram theme because they thought the riff and sound their guitarist Mike Rabon had discovered reminded them of an old telegraph key sound and went from there.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
My song pick 7 years ago today: Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) - Rock 'n' Roll Is King

My song pick 8 years ago today: Return to Forever - Beyond the Seventh Galaxy

My song pick 9 years ago today: Al Di Meola - July

My song pick 10 years ago today: Gary Lewis and the Playboys - Palisades Park

My song pick 11 years ago today: Jethro Tull - Warm Sporran

My song pick 12 years ago today: Blue Öyster Cult - Sole Survivor

My song pick 13 years ago today: Mastodon - Divinations

My song pick 14 year ago today: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - K.626 - Requiem Mass in D Minor

My song pick 15 years ago today: Banchee - The Night is Calling

My song pick 16 years ago today: Band of Horses - Cigarettes, Wedding Bands

My song pick 17 years ago today: Bread - Guitar Man

My song pick 18 years ago today: America - A Horse With No Name
 

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