Saturday 9

 

Touch Me in the Morning

Welcome to Saturday 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

Saturday 9: Touch Me in the Morning (1973)

Unfamiliar with this week's song? Hear it here.

1) In this song, Diana Ross sings that nothing good lasts forever. Do you agree?

Yes

2) She sings about a happy past with her lover, and the strength she'll need to face tomorrow alone. Do you find yourself more often remembering the past or anticipating the future? 

I’ve reached an age where there’s a lot of “past” to reminisce about.

3) In the 1970s, Diana Ross had young daughters. To spend maximum time with her girls, she would sleep all day when they were in school. That way she could have dinner with them, bathe them and put them to bed before going to the studio and recording all night. Have you ever worked the night shift? 

No

4) Diana has five children altogether. There's a 16-year age difference between her oldest daughter, Rhonda, and her youngest son, Evan. Studies have shown that when there's a big gap between siblings, parents consider the older kids "built-in babysitters." In your family, were the older kids ever in charge of the younger ones? 

Yes.  I have one sister who is a year younger than I am, and the twins are 7 years younger than me.  My parents would sometimes leave the four of us home alone, with the two older girls supervising the younger girls.

5) She says her favorite sweet treat is Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookies. Do you have a favorite cookie?

I have Celiac  disease,  I was diagnosed in March of this year, so I can no longer indulge in my favorite cookies.  

6) Around the time she recorded this song, Diana Ross considered making a movie called The Bodyguard. She was to play a singer who received death threats, and Steve McQueen would portray the man hired to protect her. Scheduling conflicts prevented the movie from being made. It wasn't filmed until 1992, and then with different stars. Without looking it up, can you name stars of The Bodyguard? 

Whitney Houston starred in the movie,but I don’t remember the male star.  I do remember she sang that Dolly Parton song … 

7) In 1973, when this song was #1, Norman Mailer was atop the best-seller list with his controversial biography of Marilyn Monroe. Do you often read biographies and memoirs? 

Not really.  I think I’ve read a total of three such books over the last three years.  I read Alex Trebek’s memoir, Mary Trump’s book and then I re-read Anne Frank’s diary, which I’d read when I was a teenager.

8) Also in 1973, another Motown singer, Stevie Wonder, was injured in an automobile crash and still has a scar on his nose to show for it. Have you ever been in a car accident?

Nothing major, just a couple of fender benders.  

9) Random Question: What's the last thing you borrowed or lent?

The dryer in my house is broken (waiting in the repair) so I borrowed a rack to hang up my clothes to air dry.

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