I remember one time driving in Palm Harbor, Florida with my son Kyle, he was about 11 at the time, maybe a little younger. I'm not sure. And we were listening to a Beatles song called We Can Work It Out. And in the middle of the Beatles song is a bridge.
And as that came on, Kyle was questioning why it didn't sound like the chorus. And I explained to him what a bridge is. I'll do that for you in just a second. It's Monday night.
And this is March 16th, 2000 and 26. My name is Michael Cross. This is the Daily Grateful and Eye of Music. What is a bridge in a song?
You see, that was something we were listening to. We can work it out on the radio as we were driving him home in Palm Harbor. He was in the front seat of my truck and so was Tyler. They were, you know, and we were I was taking them home.
And the Beatles we can work it out was on. And it was, you know, try to see it my way. That's, you know, that whole part. And that's the chorus.
And it just goes on to that. And then all of a sudden it changed because John Lennon comes in and he takes over the lyrics and he says, life is very short. And yeah, which was different than the chorus. And I, you know, and Kyle was listening to that and goes, that is so cool.
He goes, why is not, you know, why does that not sound like what we were hearing? I said, it's called a bridge. And in music, they use a bridge to break up a song and change the way that you think, especially in pop music that you hear on the radio. Oh, remember the radio or that you hear on Spotify or one of those things.
But most songs, not all, but most songs will have a chorus. And then in the middle, there's a bridge to break up the monotony of the alternating choruses. And there's a lot of people who did that. So we listened to that and then we listened to another song and there was Kyle waiting for the bridge.
And he was so fascinated with that. And I was just, you know, it was amazing to me. It was absolutely amazing to me. So as my children grew up, yeah, dad, your old dad, that would be me.
I felt it my responsibility to teach them about the music of my life and their lives and to make comparison notes and things like that. And my daughter, Cassandra, just didn't hear the music in our house. She experienced it because she always had questions and I would answer them. We would be riding around in the car and I would have a CD.
Remember those in? And I remember one time and I will never, ever forget this. Never will I ever forget this. Listening as we did to Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
And they were doing a song called America. And she was listening to it. And I remember though, very clearly, that she became so engrossed in the song, engrossed in the music as I was driving through the neighborhood. I was driving through the neighborhood instead of coming right home because I wanted her to experience that song.
And I saw tears down her face. And I knew that I had accomplished what I set out to accomplish. I had in a letter experience what music is. And that was just so very incredible to me.
I've grown up listening to some of the best music in the world starting out with big band music with Glenn Miller and the Glenn Miller Orchestra and the Glenn Miller Air Force Band from World War II. That music just flowed through my house constantly. Constantly it flowed through my house. And then through my sister, Bobby Darren, flowed through my house.
And other people. And then in 1964, those mottops, they showed up. It's amazing. Make music part of your life.
Have a great day.