The great thing about life is that you are always learning something new. Especially when I spend time with the cool kids. I was out to dinner with a couple of my nephews tonight and, wanting to impress them, I was trying to name songs and artists playing on the sound system there.
Embed from Getty ImagesA song came up that the adults just couldn’t place, and these kids whipped their cell phones out and held them up in the air like they were holding bic lighters at a concert. Then they looked at their respective screens and told me that “Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo” was sung by Rick Derringer (I never would have guessed that – I had absolutely no idea). That’s right folks, there’s an app for that!! Actually, there are probably more than I can count, but one is all I need. I was really impressed.
A few weeks ago I started watching ‘Freaks and Geeks’ on Netflix. The underrated TV series from Judd Apatow takes place around the time I was in high school and I am finding it strangely comforting, like an old pair of Chuck Taylors. Imagine my pride when the song in a party scene was ‘Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo!’
Now kids today can learn even more classic songs than the ones they have mastered on Guitar Hero or seen performed in mashups on Glee. And hey – maybe I can learn enough new old stuff to beat my sister in Trivia Crack!!
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