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<\/a>At least there aren\u2019t any vengeful \u201cGod Bless America\u201d rallies at the Capitol Building, like after 9-11, or Clear Channel-like lists of 150 songs you can\u2019t play on the radio.<\/p>\nStill, I had a few Facebook friends who did seek a good Boston song to provide solace. The Standells\u2019 \u201cDirty Water,\u201d which is about Boston, was an obvious choice, until it was pointed out that The Standells are in fact from Los Angeles. Another suggestion was Boston\u2019s own favorite son Jonathan Richman\u2019s immortal suburban Boston drive-thru \u201cRoadrunner.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yet this sort of exercise misses the point, same with 9-11: Neither event was\u00a0local<\/i>, but of grave national, yea, international significance. And where Woody Guthrie\u2019s \u201cThis Land Is Your Land\u201d would certainly have been appropriate then and now, Ashford & Simpson\u2019s “Reach Out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand)” always conveys what should always be our goal in times good and bad, individually and as a people.<\/p>\n
\u201cReach out and touch somebody\u2019s hand. Make this world a better place if you can.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jim Bessman<\/p>\n
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BOSTON Reach Out and Touch (Somebody\u2019s Hand) Amazing how programmed we are to expect or seek out music to go with every major (and minor) event in our lives\u2014and how bad it so often is. MSNBC is particularly bad during the day, mostly in trying to be hip. I\u2019ve actually heard Elvis Costello and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4976],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9378,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375\/revisions\/9378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>At least there aren\u2019t any vengeful \u201cGod Bless America\u201d rallies at the Capitol Building, like after 9-11, or Clear Channel-like lists of 150 songs you can\u2019t play on the radio.<\/p>\n