I’ve just gotten back from washing clothes. I much enjoyed rolling the Shadow through this gorgeous clear 80-degree mid-December Spring afternoon in Bryan.

Here’s some orchestral techno from Sarah Brightman’s album ‘Harem’. It’s called ‘It’s a Beautiful Day’. The whole album rocks, incidentally, with a middle-Eastern flavor permeating it.

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Despite all the advances in technology, though, I respond more strongly to this old song by a band named, of course, ‘It’s a Beautiful Day’. The song is named ‘White Bird’, and was their big hit.

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Their eponymously titled album came out in 1969. I owned it and played it a lot. Admittedly, some of my fondness for it may have to do with lysergamides frothing along my brain-stem during many of the listening sessions. But I think it holds up pretty good. The violin lines still send a chill up my spine. And the soaring harmonies are transcendant.

From that album, we have also ‘Hot Summer Day’.

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