I hope everyone is having a safe but satisfyingly frightful Halloween. Thought I would share with you the song Halloween Parade by Jack Hardy. Ive had the pleasure of attending NYCs famous Halloween Parade (which the song is about) 2 or 3 times and it really is a lot of fun. I first heard this song on the radio in Oct. of 2001, just a few weeks after the attacks on the World Trade Center; those events were still heavy on my mind, and in the song I heard what I thought was a veiled reference to 9/11, and how embracing the made up scariness of Halloween was a way for us to cope with the real fear all of us were experiencing at that time. Of course, I later learned the song had actually been written several years earlier, but I think it was the chorus that made me think it was about 9/11: Here on the Avenue of the Americas Larger than life, behind makeup and mask Everything America is afraid of Is lost in a ritualized hell All so the children wont ask All so we wont have to tell The song really seemed to fit the mood our country was in the on the first Halloween after the attacks. As sad but interesting side note, Jack Hardys brother Jeff worked and the World Trade Center and died on 9/11. https://youtube/watch?v=affe6ZpneSA
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:21:12 +0000
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