Welcome to grooviest blog this side of the '60s!!! It's Tuesday's Musical Notes comin' atcha from our palatial 2nd story office on this bright and sunshiny day! We hope you are feelin' the groove today, brothers and sisters, as we slide into one of the most happenin' tracks ever known to mankind. The moon is in the 7th house and the stars are aligning for one of the best blog reads of your week, so let's get started as we travel to the Fifth Dimension for today's piece of the action at Tuesday's Musial Notes! Peace!!!
It was the original mashup song. You know, where you take 2 songs, usually popular, and put them together to make one. ("Top 10 Song Mashups" By Dustin Koski on November 18, 2011, toptenz.net) Today's feature song, referred to as a medley for those of you born before the year 2000, is a mashup of 2 songs from the 1967 musical Hair.
Upon seeing a performance of the musical, The Fifth Dimension became very enthusiastic about recording "Aquarius". As it was used as an introductory song for the musical and didn't have an ending, they decided to combine it with a portion of the song "The Flesh Failures" (the "let the sunshine" portion) even though the songs were in different keys and tempos.
Recording happened in 2 cities. Vocals by The Fifth Dimension were laid down in Las Vegas, (with just 2 microphones for the 5 singers) while the instrumental tracks by Bill Holman and The Wrecking Crew (Tuesday's Musical Notes - "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'") were recorded in Los Angeles.
This mashup was instant gold as the song streaked up the charts all the way to #1 (It stayed there for 6 weeks) and was listed at #2 behind the Archies "Sugar, Sugar" on the end of the year countdown in 1969. It won the 1970 Grammy Award for both Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Group.
The astrologically fused lyrics have come to be considered poetic license as, according to some astrologists, the astrological signs that are mentioned are common occurrences. Okay by me, I'm not diggin' that jive anyway...
Astrology claims to be able to determine life events and human affairs by gazing into the cosmos. Most consider this a pseudoscience. There are, however, incredible things that have happened in the earth's atmospheric past. Take for example the incidents that happened on day 4 of creation:
"God spoke: “Lights! Come out!
Shine in Heaven’s sky!
Separate Day from Night.
Mark seasons and days and years,
Lights in Heaven’s sky to give light to Earth.”
And there it was." - Genesis 1: 14-15 The Message paraphrase of the Bible
Notice that the sun and moon were created by God on day 4. As we've eluded to in previous Musical Notes (Tuesday's Musical Notes - "The Light that has Lighted the World"), the sun was not the light spoken into existence on day 1. The creations of day 4 are the celestial bodies that we see every day, at least on days that aren't cloudy. Time itself was created on this day as the "seasons and days and years" happened due to the phases of the sun and moon. Time keeps on slippin'...(Tuesday's Musical Notes - "Fly Like an Eagle")
While science teaches us that the moon reflects light from the sun, it is easy to see how in Moses' mind, the moon emitted its own light, thus causing God to provide an explanation for the moonlight that he (Moses) could easily understand.
I guess in some ways, astrology was birthed on day 4 of the creation story as well. It seems that it was not too long after the expulsion from the perfection of Eden that mankind succumbed to the worship of the astral beings. Job, whose story would have occurred chronologically in Genesis ( "When Is Job On The Bible Timeline?" April 29, 2013, by Margaret Hunter amazingbibletimeline.com), wrote a negative view of those who would worship creation over the Creator. Job 31:26-28 NASB/The Message/KJV Job's anathema at putting anything before God should serve as a great example and warning to us about how we view creation, especially the creation above our atmosphere.
We've had a lot of rain in our area of the world lately. It is with great excitement that we have seen the sun and feel its warmth over the last couple of days. That excitement should be held in the perspective of gratitude towards its Creator, not in the worship of the center of the universe gas ball that our earth circles, nor the ice cold hunk of rock that is in orbit around earth.
We were created for a relationship with the Creator. His creation in the sky is beautiful, but these created entities cannot bring peace in the time of tumult, comfort in the time of pain, nor a filling when there is a loss. Only God, working through Holy Spirit can do those things.
It really doesn't matter when the moon gets in the 7th house or Jupiter aligns with Mars. Peace will only rule the planet when love steers the hearts of mankind, especially those who confess faith in Jesus as Savior, King, and Lord of their lives. Love God, love others, let Jesus judge and let the Son shine in...that would truly be the dawning of the age...
'Til Tuesday,
Serving HIM by serving You,
randy
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