A while back, I was kvetching in this space about how limited the playlists on oldies radio stations are, specifically noting an odd tendency to play "Do You Know what I Mean?" by Lee Michaels considerably more often than seems necessary. Today, they did it again and this time I let it play, more from inattention than any keen desire to hear it. It isn't that I don't like the song, but I owned the single and played it to death back in the day. I don't really need to hear the darned thing anymore.
However, I was surprised as hell to hear during the bridge ("Lee, you haven't loved me in nearly four years...") a very loud harpsichord part, or something that sounded like a harpsichord part. Now I realize that 1971 is a long time ago and everything, but really, we had stereo back then. Maybe not really good stereo, but stereo nonetheless. It tended to be printed on all the records in REALLY BIG LETTERS. So I don't know where that damned harpsichord part has been hiding for 42 years. It's also true that the balance on my car stereo is very iffy; it loses the lead guitar part from CDs that I know by heart. But still; even if it's normally faint, I think I would have heard that harpochord (I know it's a typo; I like it better that way though) somewhere. Anyway, maybe I'll start listening to all those overplayed oldies (at least once each) and find what else my car stereo can reveal. Pretty cool.
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