Everywhere You Go

Songs are sometimes not about the world we live in, but more about the world we would like to live in.   In the 1930s, the songwriters reached out to the world, helping everybody to look on the bright side.  And sometimes, a little creative denial is all we need to get back on track.  Imagine.  As Al Jolson sang, "it isn't raining rain, you know, it's raining violets!"   And sometimes, just noticing a flower, a bird song, or the smile of a passer-by that we may otherwise have missed, can be a life-changing event.

This song, "Everywhere You Go", by Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay, and Mark Fisher, was written in 1927, and recorded countless times, by Bing Crosby, by Doris Day, and, my favorite, a live noon-time show on WTMJ radio in Milwaukee, played by a band calling themselves the Hot Shots, who used the song as their theme song.  

In the 1970s, 80s, and some 90s, my friend Norm and I used to perform at old folks homes, and this was our theme song.  We called our band "Pay As You Go", and usually we were joined by Geoff the Washboard Dude, my little brudder from Watertown.

Without getting all "Andy Griffith" about it, this is one of those songs about leaving the world a better place, and shouldn't we all be doing a little of that?

The flowers in the video are from the Summer 2019 crop.