Hummm,doing a night blog,this is new for me!!! I picked up this record and listened to it during the time of being totally abandoned for the four days. <------ Shameless ploy for sympathy,heeee,heee! Did it work??? Ahhh,thought not,you're all too clever to fall for that! LOL!!! But...worth the try!!! Anyhooo,done with goofing around...for now. I listened to Neil Diamond in a original sound track from Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The music and orchestra totally blew me away,I was just thrilled with the piece. What I picked up as an interest I think now is a treasure...well worth the 99 cents,I'm a big spender! If I had more I'd spend bigger but you still couldn't surpass this at any price. I thought the sentiment and power of the music to be very emotional.

I never read Jonathan Livingston Seagull but thought my daughter could fill me in. After listening to the story through the music I was intrigued. I clearly remember her two brothers teasing the daylights out of her for reading it. But she was working on something and could not remember how the story went.

It starts with the most richly joyous music. The first voice sings "Be". I loved the line...We dance to a whispering voice    overheard by the soul    undertook by heart   and you may know it     if you may know it. So powerful and so moving. I couldn't take the needle off the record,I intended to just see what the record was but I was hooked,totally hooked.  The next music feels to be adventurous and thrilling , reaches this high and then takes you down.  Then "Dear Father" is sung and seems to be so very sad. Defeated,it sounds like a defeat of spirit but the song just says    we dream   we need. "Skybird" seems to be a movement through life,the taking flight ,expressing joy,delight in the moment and life's end. The music is so totally expressive and takes you through the story but I'm not sure if I got it right because the end felt like Jonathan doesn't make it??? How could that be,that's not a happy ending and even though I don't know Jonathan and I'm wondering is he a seagull,I want him to make it...but I don't think he does. The music transports you and makes you think of flight and wings,of trials and falls and effort and life.

So now I need to find out what this is about for if reading the words is half and powerful as the music,it should be worth it!