Saturday 9: Woman in Love

Sam's Saturday 9: Woman in Love (1980)

Warning!

We interrupt today’s blog post to bring some important information.
I might not be able to approve or post comments on your Saturday 9 posts because there is a hurricane heading my way.

I am batting down the hatches!

Henri is making a beeline to Cape Cod Bay and then stay around there making havoc. The National Hurricane Center's cone-of-uncertainly just west of the Cape Cod Canal slowing as it bumps into a high pressure wave. It is supposed to be a Category 1 hurricane when it makes landfall on Cape Cod and then just hang around for a day as it bumps into warm front and stalls.

If I do lose power then I will be heading home.

We now return you to our regular scheduled blog post.

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Since I wrote this this Thursday there has been major changes to the hurricane path, it will no longer hit the Cape but Connecticut so I am going home this morning. 

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On Saturdays I take a break from the heavy stuff and have some fun…

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) In this song, Barbra dreams of love. What's something you've been dreaming of, or wishing for, lately? (It doesn't have to be romantic.)
Having a cookout on my new patio.

2) She sings that she and her lover are oceans apart. Tell us about someone who is far away, and that you wish was nearer this Saturday morning.
My brother’s family.

3) This was a #1 hit for Streisand, so popular it knocked Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" out of the top spot on the charts. Are you a Freddie Mercury/Queen fan?
Yes!
One time I was waving my hand and singing in my car Bohemian Rhapsody at a stoplight and a cop pulled up next to me in the turn lane. He looked at me funny and I lowered my window and he lowered his window, and the song was at,

Easy come, easy go, will you let me go
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go
(Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go
(Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go
(Let me go) Will not let you go
(Let me go)(Never) Never let you go
(Let me go) (Never) let you go (Let me go) Ah
No, no, no, no, no, no, no

And we both started laughing, and the light turned green

4) This song was written specifically for Barbra by Barry and Robin Gibb of the BeeGees. During the late 1970s, when the BeeGees were riding high on the success of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, she let them know she was a fan and would love to record one of their songs. The collaboration went so well that they ended up writing not one but nearly a dozen songs for her. Tell us about something that went way better for you than you predicted it would.
Getting my MSW when I was 63.

5) Barbra traveled to Miami Beach to record this song in Barry's favorite studio. Have you ever been to Miami Beach?
Yes, when I was knee high to a grasshopper, it was back in the late 1950.

6) Barbra went to Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. She had a mad crush on one of her classmates. That boy was Bobby Fischer, who grew up to be an international chess champion. Do you remember one of your big high school crushes? Do you know whatever became of him or her?
Yes, she was at our 50th high school reunion, she is a grandmother now and her daughter bought my parents house which is a couple of houses down from my parent’s house.

7) Barbra is responsible for the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai. It's dedicated to the study of heart disease, its impact on women, and the search for more effective treatment. If you could fund a not-for-profit, as Barbra has done, what cause would you champion?
Three guesses and I am the executive director of a non-profit, and one of the founding members of it.

8) In 1980, when "Woman in Love" was popular, Macaulay Culkin was born. He's best known for the Home Alone movies. Have you seen them? If yes, did you enjoy them?
Yes, during a Thanksgiving at my nieces house. Not really.

9) Random question: On social media, people keystroke LOL all the time. When is the last time you literally laughed out loud?
It was probably a couple of months ago.

Thanks so much for joining us again at Saturday: 9. As always, feel free to come back, see who has participated and comment on their posts. In fact sometimes, if you want to read & comment on everyone's responses, you might want to check back again tomorrow. But it is not a rule. We haven’t any rules here. Join us on next Saturday for another version of Saturday: 9, "Just A Silly Meme on a Saturday!" Enjoy your weekend!