{"id":89,"date":"2012-04-26T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2012-05-30T16:01:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T23:01:27","slug":"songs-i-never-get-tired-of-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Songs I Never Get Tired Of #19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘Man’s Road’<\/div>\n
By: America<\/div>\n
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I’ll start with a confession:<\/div>\n
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I never saw ‘The Last Unicorn’ until I was in my twenties. Whew! There, I said it. That’s a load off my chest.<\/div>\n
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You might find that rather odd since I grew up with Rankin & Bass Christmas specials…and I was fairly obsessed with J.R.R. Tolkien thanks to my mother, who would read ‘The Hobbit’ to me and my sisters when we were very little.<\/div>\n
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The greatest little hobbit of them all\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For those of you unfamiliar with Rankin & Bass, they were the dudes responsible for bringing such beloved Christmas stories as ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ and ‘Frosty the Snowman’ to life, using a classic, animated style or occasionally stop-motion animation with little puppets made out of felt & cardboard, etc.<\/div>\n
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You put one foot in front of the other.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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The neat part about these holiday specials is that, for the most part, original music was written to supplement the show:<\/span><\/div>\n
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I remember being blown away when I discovered that Rudolph<\/em>\u00a0was produced in 1964…meaning that it was a part of my parents’ childhood as well as mine. Still, somehow as a child I’d managed to miss out on several of Rankin\/Bass’ feature films, including The Wind in the Willows <\/em>and, most importantly, The Last Unicorn.<\/em><\/div>\n

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I was familiar with the Band America<\/em>\u00a0long before giving in and enjoying what was, in my mind at the time, essentially a little girls’ movie<\/em>. My mother used to add the album History<\/em>\u00a0to the old Sony 5-disc changer on shuffle, and thus America became a childhood staple along with Al Stewart’s Year of the Cat<\/a> <\/em>and other (now somewhat obscure) baby-boomer music.<\/div>\n
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Since America’s contributions to The Last Unicorn<\/em>\u00a0were not considered a part of their ‘greatest hits’, they were not included on the album History<\/em>. Thus, similar to my brief love affair with Evanescence after watching Daredevil<\/em>, I knew that I had to have the music after watching the movie.<\/div>\n
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Man’s Road <\/em>fits the movie perfectly. America’s folky, clean-vocals style lends itself well to a song about the beginning of a difficult journey. For me, it became the theme song of one of my fantasy role-playing campaigns…and I’ll be honest, I’ll probably use it again for the exact same thing. Some bands, some songs are a little more timeless than others, and everybody can relate to what it’s like, walking man’s road.<\/div>\n
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…even if the lyrics aren’t exactly gender-neutral.<\/div>\n
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‘Man’s Road’ By: America I’ll start with a confession: I never saw ‘The Last Unicorn’ until I was in my twenties. Whew! There, I said it. That’s a load off my chest. You might find that rather odd since I grew up with Rankin & Bass Christmas specials…and I was fairly obsessed with J.R.R. Tolkien […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-songs-i-never-get-tired-of"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}