as I\u2019ve shared before<\/a>, is a jam. <\/p>\nI noticed a look on M\u2019s face and was wondering if she would comment. There is pretty much zero country music ever played in our house, and while \u201cSmoky Mountain Rain\u201d fits into the country-pop sound that often hit the charts in the late \u201870s and early \u201880s, it still stands out as a country track compared to what we usually listen to.<\/p>\n
Finally she said, \u201cThis reminds me of \u201cCountry Roads.\u201d<\/p>\n
I chuckled a little and said, \u201cHow do you know \u2018Country Roads?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe sang it at CYO camp,\u201d she responded.<\/p>\n
I nodded, made sense. <\/p>\n
After waiting a beat she continued, \u201cIt\u2019s also one of those basic white people<\/em> songs that everyone knows. You know, like \u2018Sweet Caroline?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\nI about choked on my food as I laughed.<\/p>\n
As my friend Stacey B said, she\u2019s not wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Songs: \u201cSweet Caroline\u201d – Neil Diamond. Peaked at #4 the week of August 16, 1969 \u201cTake Me Home, Country Roads\u201d – John Denver. Peaked at #2 the week of August 28, 1971 \u201cSmoky Mountain Rain\u201d – Ronnie Milsap. Peaked at #24 for two weeks in February\/March of 1981 A different kind of RFTS post today. Rather than breaking down a song (or songs) and its place on the Billboard chart, this is a story about one of my kids with a pop music connection. Sunday M and I were eating breakfast before she left to go to work. In the background was an AT40 from 1981. While we ate our French toast, we heard Ronnie Milsap\u2019s \u201cSmoky Mountain Rain,\u201d which, as I\u2019ve shared before, is a jam. I noticed a look on M\u2019s face and was wondering if she would comment. There is pretty much zero country music ever played in our house, and while \u201cSmoky Mountain Rain\u201d fits into the country-pop sound that often hit the charts in the late \u201870s and early \u201880s, it still stands out as a country track compared to what we usually listen to. Finally she said, \u201cThis reminds me of \u201cCountry Roads.\u201d I chuckled a little and said, \u201cHow do you know \u2018Country Roads?\u2019\u201d \u201cWe sang it at CYO camp,\u201d she responded. I nodded, made sense. After waiting a beat she continued, \u201cIt\u2019s also one of those basic white people songs that everyone knows. You know, like \u2018Sweet Caroline?\u2019\u201d I about choked on my food as I laughed. As my friend Stacey B said, she\u2019s not wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,9,39],"class_list":["post-10257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-at40","tag-music","tag-rfts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10258,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257\/revisions\/10258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}