What Goes Around ...

I had the good fortune of taking a car full of teens to a mentor picnic.  One of them, a 14-year-old Hispanic boy named Walter (the only Latino I have ever met with that name!),  said he liked music. So we took turns sharing some of our favorite songs.

He started with the powerfully emotive Disturbed cover of Sounds of Silence. (I felt very with-it, having already heard it.)  Of course, I had to expose him to the exquisite harmonies of  Simon & Garfunkel in the original version, which was new to him.

After sharing a few more songs, including turning him on to Odetta's Midnight Special, Walter shocked me with this pick from his personal library, "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire," by the Ink Spots, which was a big hit in 1942!  My faith in the next generation has been restored.