Steely Dan
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Whoops. Sure sign it's time for Ducky to head to bed. The mind's starting to go. :blush:
If I went to bed every time my mind gave out I'd sleep 24/7.
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Whoops. Sure sign it's time for Ducky to head to bed. The mind's starting to go. :blush:
That's Carol King and yes that one is about me as well as her "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman"
I think I'm disappointed. I want it to be about Warren Beatty.
Confession:
Warren Beatty was my first real love. Seriously. Even though he was about the same age as my father, I loved Warren, and couldn't wait to grow up so he and I could get married.
It all started with that movie, 'Heaven Can Wait' (1978). He played 'Joe Pendleton' who was "plucked from Earth too soon by an over-zealous angel". I wanted to be Julie Christie. I went to see it in the theater, and was hooked so bad, my older sisters took me to see it over and over and over again.
Soon after, I saw an old re-run of 'Splendor in the Grass' (co-starring Natalie Wood), and that was it- I was a gone-er. Whatever that meant.
Warren (I can call him by his first name, as he was my first love) had a beach house in Malibu, just one town over from where I grew up. Every week-end, we went to the beach, and my friends and I would slowly walk past his house, so he would hopefully look out his window, and fall in love with me. He must have been looking out a window on the other side of the house, because it never happened. Kind-of creepy to think about now... I was a 12 year old stalker.
When I found out that some singer named Carly Simon used to date him, and had written a song about him, it became my favorite song. I hate to admit this, but I was one of those girls that sings in front of the mirror, using a hairbrush as a microphone.
The fantasies I had because of that song... walking onto a yacht with Warren, his hat strategically over one eye, his scarf- it was apricot...
I don't know. I'm just a little disappointed.
Carly Simon has been giving "teasers" about this song since it first came out. I think she enjoys the attention this song gets,and will contine with these "little hints" forever.It probably was never written for a specific person,just a great song.But since the public just won't let it go...she's having fun with it/us.
Could the song be about David Bowie?
(I'm just throwing names out there... :crazy