Dr. Frank's What's-it

I'll be in touch so don't leave town in a big black car

This song made quite a big impression on me when I was a kid and it was played over and over on all the big AOR FM stations. I used to play it in my bedroom and walk around at school singing it in my head, and sometimes even kind of whisper-singing it to myself which would elicit funny looks when anyone overheard me doing it because basically, let's face it, my muttering the word "homicide" over and over with a very serious facial expression probably confirmed some general suspicion about me. I mean, I assume it must have. In this day and age, I'd have been locked up and sent off for therapeutic brainwashing or whatever they do, and maybe I should have been at that. (And speaking of facing things, "Let's Face It" was another one I used to "perform" this way, a song that was possibly a little more relevant to my own life than "Homicide.") I think my old band in high school used to do a (likely pretty terrible) version of it, too.

Anyway, I picked up the old acoustic Yamaha just now and for some reason I started playing and singing "Homicide," and cracked myself up by how silly it was that I used to sing it then, and that I was doing it now. That guitar was a Confirmation present from my parents, so it's the same guitar I used to play it on back then, too.