Wednesday, April 10, 2013

I is for Iowa Stubborn

 (For my A to Z Blogging Challenge 2013, I am going to share music - one song a day - that has meant something somehow to me in my life.)

"Iowa Stubborn" from "The Music Man" . . .
1) I have never personally lived in Iowa.  I have visited a few times.
2) My dad lived in Iowa for a few years during his childhood.
3) My Grandpa loves this movie.  Grandpa comments on all of the towns mentioned toward the end of this song.
4) When I was a kid, we did not have a VCR.  (VCRs first came out around the time I was born, but few people I knew had them.  We got one when I was 10.5 years old.) We did not have cable, either. So therefore, when PBS aired "The Music Man" (the 1962 version, of course, starring Robert Preston) usually once a year, it was a family event (along with "The Sound of Music" and "The Wizard of Oz"), when we made popcorn and Mom actually let us each pick out a single can of pop at the grocery store.  I usually picked cream soda.   Mom did not let us have pop regularly.  I did not get a cavity until age 10.
5) This is one of my favorite songs from the movie.



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