Earth Day Kicks Off a New Feature

Happy Earth Day! 

In a past blog I mentioned that I had a few ideas for new features – most are music oriented.  I haven’t decided whether to do some weekly or biweekly, so I’m playing it by ear.

Today is the first installment of Movie Monday Music.  As a fan of movie soundtracks, I thought it might be neat to feature from them. This will allow me to feature some hits and some odd cuts, too.

For Earth Day, I wanted to pick a song from a movie featuring Earth or World in the title.  One movie jumped right out at me –  1992’s Wayne’s World.

The soundtrack album topped the Billboard  Top 200 album chart and for a good reason – it had some great music on it.  There were songs from Jimi Hendrix, Alice Cooper, Eric Clapton, Tia Carrere and, of course, Queen.

I suppose I could feature Bohemian Rhapsody, but that would be too easy.  Instead, I chose a song that I’ve always liked – Dream Weaver by Gary Wright.

The song was recorded and released in 1975. With the exception of the percussion, all the instrumentation was done on a synthesizer. It went to number one in Canada, but topped out at number 2 in the US.

Another movie connection for the song: Wes Craven once said the song was the inspiration for his film Nightmare on Elm Street.