Well, as you might have noticed, if you've been following this blog for awhile, I love live performance videos. Attempting to "watch" a song that's just a static image irritates the shit out of me. But, I couldn't find any live performances of this song that I wanted to post. There was a fabulous live version featuring ALL of CSNY, but I'm also something of a purist and this (I believe) was a solo effort by Stills, so this is what we're left with.
I mentioned last week that I thought the message behind Sealed with a Kiss was a little silly, this song definitely puts a different sort of spin on the idea of what to expect when lovers are separated. Of course, it was released during the Vietnam War and the era of Free Love, so there is that, as well.
Many of my memories of "summer songs" involve me walking on beaches with friends while singing loudly...and probably badly. This particular memory also involves a torrential summer rain storm. The adults we encountered on our way back to the hotel where we were staying expressed surprise that we hadn't come in right away (yeah, we were seriously drenched and wearing elephant bell bottom jeans that flapped around our legs and left trails of sand and water everywhere we went--and, FYI, would have made running out of the rain almost impossible, at that point). But, as we kept pointing out, we'd gone the beach, so we'd been expecting to get wet anyway.
Ahh, those were the days...
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