Monday, November 3, 2014

"Coming Back Like a Song," Part 3


       Beside verbal association, there's just seeing things, visual association, that brings a song back.  Spying chestnuts in a grocery store leads to "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire."  (Thank you, Nat King Cole.)

       I look up one night on a pleasure trip and there's a very good moon up there, not full yet, but very bright and shining, hanging all by itself in the sky:  "Full Moon and Empty Arms."  (Actually, thank you Tchaikovsky, originally.)

       While taking a banana out of the fridge, a singing commercial comes back:  "Never put bananas in the refrigerator, no no no no."  (Little thanks to Chiquita Banana who I think misled us with that one.  I leave 'em in till the day before I use them, to preserve 'em, then bring 'em out to regain their warmth and flavor.)

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