It’s summertime and this is my first song of the day that’s is summer related. To me it reminds me of baseball which will be the subject of a lot of songs this summer. You may say this song has nothing whosoever with baseball. The same song can have different meanings to different people, and whenever I heard the lyrics; we’ll put the speakers in the window it always reminds me of playing baseball in the Nicholson’s back yard.
Back when I was growing up in the seventies during summer vacation we would play all day outside. Our neighborhood was filled with kids, in might still be filled with kids don’t really know their always inside. We loved to play baseball which brings me to today’s song. We wanted to do everything right so before we started the game Tim would go into his bedroom and put his record player in the window the record player had a small speaker inside so there wasn’t any speakers in the window. When Tim got it all ready he would yell out; And now for the playing of our National Anthem just like they did in the big leagues. He would put down the needle on the 45 record and it would begin to play the Star Spangled Banner. The rest of us would stand outside facing the window with our baseball caps over our hearts. Maybe I’m not the one who should say this but I think there might be a strong chance that as we stood there with out caps over our hearts trying our best to hear the record that we were just amazingly cute. But we didn’t think so at the time we were serious and there wasn’t any grownups around so we were happy to do whatever we wanted to do. I suppose we outgrew this and I had forgotten all about it until in 1991 when Rod Stewart sang about putting speakers in the window, that brought back my good memory from my childhood. A song can do that sometime. If you played this video you may had noticed it’s mostly a cartoon, I really hope you noticed that! I’m going to do some songs from cartoons soon. I may run out of stories but I’ll never run out of songs.
I was planning on another song for today, but my sister called me and said I should do the Bee Gees song we were talking about yesterday. I told her that I was going to have the Bee Gees song about the coal mine cave in, and I would write about Papa (our granddad) working in the coal mines. But today’s church service changed my plans. first lets talk about the Bee Gees song because as it turns out that’s a interesting story. Back in 1967 the Bee Gees were recording an album in England at Polydor Records , in the middle of their recording session the power went out. For some reason Barry and Robin went and sat in a dark staircase. It was dark and quite except for the sound of a distant elevator. One of brothers asked the other “Isn’t this like being trapped in a coal mine?” Well those two were after all the brothers Gibb so they sat in that dark staircase and wrote a song which turned out to be their first hit song in the United States.
In the middle they sing something I always thought was unusual; Don’t go talking too loud, you’ll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones. How can a cave in cause a landslide? Well it turns out that just a few months before they wrote this song back in Whales there was a cave in at a mine that was on top of a hill the cave in cause a massive landslide burying the town below killing 144 people of the dead 128 of them were children who were in school at the time. It’s known as the Aberfan mining disaster.
In our church service today we had a speaker from the Gideons, their the people that place Bibles in Hotels, jails, schools anywhere they can leave the Word of God. The Gideon speaker told the story of this little girl who receive a Gideon New Testament in her fifth grade class at school. The Gideons hand out New Testaments in any school they can. The girl read her little testament all the time and through we reading God’s Word she gave her heart to Jesus. She tried and tried to talk to her daddy about Jesus but he would tell her that he didn’t want to hear anything about Jesus. One day as her daddy was going to work in coal mine she hugged him and as she hugged him she slipped her New Testament in his pocket. Later on that day there was a cave in at the coal mine. When they finally recovered her daddy’s dead body in his hand was that New Testament, when they opened the testament inside her daddy wrote “I now know your Jesus I will see you in Heaven” he sighed it Daddy and below his name was the signatures of the other 12 men with him. This story is not much different from the story in this Bee Gees song, except for the love of one little girl.
I know you may said that the song In The Year 2525 was maybe, well more than just maybe this was one of the worst songs of all time. I think you may be right but for some reason it was the number one song for six weeks beginning July 12 1969. Wait doesn’t July of 69 sound familiar? That’s right on July 20 1969 man walked on the moon and the number one song on the radio was this song about the future. Knowing what was going on at the time it’s no wonder that this song was popular.
Since it was a number one hit from 1969 the song was played throughout the seventies on the radio. If you were in church in the seventies this song was mostly made fun of because it was such a ridiculous idea that there was going to be a year 2525, that was crazy Jesus was coming again and there was no way there would even be the 1980s forget about the year 2525. I remember we had a revival at our Southern Baptist Church. The evangelist was convinced he was an expert on the Second Coming and all the sermons were on the Last Days. In the last sermon of the revival the evangelist who knew everything about the book of Revelation, said that something was going to happen, I don’t remember what, but whatever it was it would happen it three weeks! That’s right in just three short weeks Jesus was making his return! A lot of people were very happy to hear that Jesus’s Second Coming was just three weeks away but I wasn’t one bit happy after all I was just 12 years old and all I had was three more weeks to live. I was afraid and had a right to be afraid because I believed what that evangelist said! There wasn’t anything that evangelist said that couldn’t be right after all there was no way that Henry Kissinger wasn’t the Anti-Christ. Oh do you remember when there was no doubt that Henry Kissinger was the Anti-Christ? Of coarse on May 27 Henry will turn 95 now if Henry has his 130th birthday I may start thinking that those preachers were on to something. I sure was glad when those three weeks were up, come to think of it a lot of weeks has passed since that 1974 revival. It seem like about the only thing I heard during the seventies was Jesus is coming get saved you don’t want to be left behind! Even Billy Graham got on the Second Coming bandwagon or come to think of it Billy Graham made had started the whole thing. In 1972 Billy Graham distributed the movie A Thief In The Night. Unlike todays’ Christian movies this movie was not shown in theaters rather the movie would be played at local churchs or in a small town a church may rent a theater. If you look up this movie on the internet, you will find a lot of people will praise this movie but think of it this way the movie is suppose to be about the rapture which was going to happen really soon. So far their only off by 46 years and counting. If you will go to your local time traveling shop (it’s the 21st century there should be one them in every mall) and return back to the seventies, when you tell them your from 2018 and the Second Coming hasn’t happened yet they will not believe you. They will ask you about your flying car. All this brings me to talk about what’s the newest thing about predicting Jesus Second Coming. It turns out that Jesus returning depends upon Donald Trump. That’s right from the sons of the preachers that brought us Anti-Christ Henry Kissinger there’s a new theory on the Second Coming. Of coarse you have to keep in mind that in the seventies we only had 22 chapters in the book of Revelation and today the Trump supporters have the book of Revelation the Lost Chapters. In the 31st chapter verse 8 of the book of Revelation the Lost Chapters it states–And I John saw a great white leader from the West, with many wives and concubines, will move the capital to Jerusalem believest thou me. Did anyone notice that the Lost Chapters are written in blue that’s a little strange. Well at least its not written in green you know the Tromp supporters don’t want anything to do with that color. Oh the Trump supporters just love the Lost Chapters of Revelation in the 25th chapter Jesus joins the NRA! The rest of the 31st chapter goes on to tell how the great white leader from the West purifies his great white race in his country. You might say Jeff your making all this up and that’s just wrong. Well at least I’m admitting that I made stuff up and not standing behind a pulpit making claims about Donald Trump and the Second Coming. The purpose of interjecting Donald Trump into the Second Coming is simple and is in no way shocking in fact it’s quite predicable. The Trump supporters, I call them the Trump Worshippers, have to come up with something to justify their support of this adulterer, liar, white supremacist I could go on but I think you might get the picture. So what better way to justify their support than to say that Donald Trump is an important part of the Second Coming, which justifies their support. Imagine that placing someone in the Second Coming just to justify a political stands. Saying Henry Kissinger was the Anti-Christ I’m sure had nothing to do with politics. I hope that the preachers standing behind the pulpits remember that there may be a 12 year old boy listening and I can assure that preacher that boy will listen carefully to what you say and if you lie to him, he will remember it even 45 years later. When is Jesus Second Coming going to happen? Jesus said that he didn’t know he said that only the Father in Heaven knows. So I think that there is just as good of a chance that those two hippies from the sixties may come as close as anyone. Remember back in 2012 when some people thought the end of the world was coming because it was the end of the Maya calendar? Well maybe in 2524 they will start talking about this song again, just an idea. I hope you have enjoyed reading this and I hope you will read my next song of the day which will be Elton John’s Border Song. If you don’t remember this song it’s the song that last verse says; Holy Moses let us live in peace Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease There’s a man over there what’s his color I don’t care He’s my brother let us live in peace. OK I just had to write that in green. Yeah and you may guess that I have a lot to say about it.