{"id":14856,"date":"2013-11-13T13:57:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T18:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=14856"},"modified":"2013-11-13T13:57:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T18:57:02","slug":"midweek-music-break-the-chiffons-one-fine-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/midweek-music-break-the-chiffons-one-fine-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Music Break: The Chiffons, “One Fine Day”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OneOver the weekend I dedicated a few hours to straightening up my office. As I worked, I listened to the oldies I’ve bothered so far to assemble into a single playlist on “the cloud” — there’s about 450 of them, and putting the list into play-once\/shuffle mode pretty much assures I won’t hear any repeats for most sustained activity. (Because nothing’s worse than boredom, right?)<\/p>\n

Almost always, when I listen to music I wear headphones; this time, though, I wanted to give the new computer’s speakers a rare workout. The office is a room over our garage, and when the subwoofer kicks in you can really feel the floor shuddering beneath your feet…<\/p>\n

I’ve always liked “One Fine Day,” despite the decidedly gender-unlightened lyrics; even without them, the music just sings<\/i>\u00a0giddy optimism. But on a “Clean up your room!” soundtrack rippling through a wooden floor, it really kicks — especially that jackhammer piano.<\/p>\n

[Below, click Play button to begin <\/em>One Fine Day. While audio is playing, volume control appears at left — a row of little vertical bars. This clip is 2:12 long.]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

[audio:onefineday_thechiffons.mp3|titles=’One Fine Day’|artists=The Chiffons]<\/div>\n

The piano, as it happens, was played by Carole King herself. After she’d written the music for then-husband Gerry Goffin’s lyrics, they recorded her at the piano with singer Little Eva (who’d had a hit with “The Locomotion,” and who also — cough, cough — coincidentally was the King-Goffin household’s babysitter). They weren’t crazy with her vocal, though, so they stripped it from the recording… and kept the instrumental when they turned it over to The Chiffons.<\/p>\n

(Why to The Chiffons? Apparently, some whimsical genius with the record label wanted to follow up their previous hit — “He’s So Fine,” with that crazy\u00a0doo-lang doo-lang<\/em> hook — with another song which had “fine” in the title. Always good to know that caprice in pop-culture decision-making isn’t limited to publishing! :))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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