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Sing it in the Morning: A 10-Year-Old's Goodbye to Mary Travers

Mary Travers of the legendary folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary died Wednesday night at the age of 72.For my 10th birthday, my dad bought me a teal plastic cassette tape box and put two new cassettes in it: The Beach Boys' Endless Summer and Peter, Paul & Mary's Ten Years Together. The next year, I'd add a third album to the collection—Hootie & the Blowfish's Cracked Rear View, what a classic!—but for a while, those first two comprised the entirety of my record collection. Dreamy 60s pop and protest songs. I promptly decorated the case with Lisa Frank kitten...  read more

Fear of Flying: The Most Inappropriate Songs for In-Flight Radio

A few weeks ago, I was invited to speak on some panels at Diversafest in Tulsa, Okla. On my flight back home to Atlanta, both my iPod and laptop were dead, so I decided to check out some in-flight radio. I surfed the dozen or so stations until—as we reached cruising altitude—I settled on one with a ’50/early-’60s golden-oldies format. After tunes from Dion & the Belmonts, The Platters and—if I remember correctly—The Shangri-Las, what should come on but Santo & Johnny’s classic 1959 instrumental “Sleepwalk.”  Now, normally, I love “Sleepwalk”—it’s one of the most wistful, nostalgic, emotive pieces...  read more