By Gosh, I FOUND IT!

Dear reader and visitor, do you remember me saying I had been haunted by a song so many months ago? Well, thanks, in part to Clyde Clifford in an indirect way, I FOUND IT! I'd been viewing Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton videos on YouTube, re: the Crossroads Festival (see the second part of Beaker Street's last day on KKPT, part 2) where Winwood and Clapton sang "Presence Of The Lord" and I just followed subsequent videos.

BINGO!"Dear Mr. Fantasy!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DYC61HzmtM&NR=1




When I heard the opening riffs, I almost jumped off my chair! This has literally haunted me, staying in my brain for years! I swear that I heard it on late night radio somewhere- maybe or maybe not on Beaker Street- but, with not doing the constant research I do for this blog and Clyde's selection of "Presence Of The Lord", I might never have found it...thanks, Clyde!

Lyrics for "Dear Mr. Fantasy" (band: Traffic):

"Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune
Something to make us all happy
Do anything take us out of this gloom
Sing a song, play guitar
Make it snappy
You are the one who can make us all laugh
But doing that you break out in tears
Please don't be sad if it was a straight mind you had
We wouldn't have known you all these years
Oooo Ahhhhh
Oooo Ahhhhh
Oooo Ahhhhh
Oooo Ahhhhh Ahhhhh


Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune
Something to make us all happy
Do anything take us out of this gloom
Sing a song, play guitar
Make it snappy
Yeah, yeah


[Instrumental]


Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune
Something to make us all happy
Do anything take us out of this gloom
Sing a song, play guitar
Make it snappy
You are the one who can make us all laugh
But doing that you break out in tears
Please don't be sad if it was a straight mind you had
We wouldn't have known you all these years"

This IS music at some of its finest...I pity the kids nowadays who think rap, hip hop, et. al., is "music"....and, as music goes, Dave M. has said, "This is so 'Clyde'...."

And feel free to visit all the other YouTube links from the same concert...Winwood and Clapton have aged like fine wine, mellowing and gaining value.

A MUCH relieved Bud S. (staceys4@hotmail.com)