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Subject: Ever On discussion's next four posts

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Date Posted: 20:21:04 03/01/06 Wed
In reply to: DB 's message, "Ever On discussion" on 18:45:10 03/01/06 Wed

1. SONGS WITH DEEPLY PERSONAL MEANINGS - 2/8/06 12:16 pm by ota

Many midnights now I have travailed with this subject: How to write something very personal about my life as told in Dan's music, and which songs do I write about first? There are truly so many, and I can't, or won't, tell the stories behind some of them so long as the children of the people involved are still alive, so, I guess tune back in to this station in 90 years. I'll have the Perpetual Executors of My Estate publish the good stories then, and, yes, it will be only on Ever On.

"Wysteria" was, is, and always will be special because of the special young lady in my life about that time, the one everyone thought was the Wysteria about whom Dan wrote. It was quite a surprise to us when Dan wrote and/or said in an interview that it was about "a dead woman, a ghost", because we were certain that it was about her. The words fit. Everything fit. From the Italian Street Fair right on down to the paper fans to hide her secret. And the staying "too long to save his heart,"... ah, the memory. And a bit of my heart is still there...

We weren't surprised when Dan said he got the name in a "head shop".

Then when I first heard "Drawing Pictures" in 1974, it also reminded me about The Wysteria Lady. I wasn't over her yet, and, again, the storyline of our lives fit the lyrics. Dan didn't write it about her, though; I believe it may have been written about the artist who recorded it in 1974. I was happy when Dan released it on Full Circle. I wish he'd record and release the other songs he's written...

Maybe some day
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2. DRAWING PICTURES - 2/16/06 at 3:47 am by ota

You can hear Florence Warner singing Dan's "Drawing Pictures" by clicking here . It was on her 1981 LP Another Hot Night , along with Dan's "Love Gone By" and other non-Dan songs.
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3. FASCINATING - 2/23/06 at 1:14 pm by bt

So a Dan song was recorded and released by someone other than Dan over 2 decades before Dan released a recording of it himself? For some reason, I find that to be a fascinating little tidbit.

And it only took me a week to notice that post!
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4. I'M FASCINATED, TOO - 2/23/06 at 7:14 pm by ota

Actually, I've been fascinated with Florence for some time. She sang a song of Dan's on her 1974 self-titled LP which to this day remains one of the most sensous songs I've heard to date. I guess Dan couldn't sing that one on stage for fear of being mobbed by admirers.

This is a great idea for a thread. Wish more posters would visit and respond. Maybe, like a few of my Dan songs, they're just too personal to share
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