Clear Channel Memo Songs: I Feel the Earth Move

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Hey, hey, it’s the first day of school here in the land of the horse race! (And yes, we have schools in Kentucky….they teach how to make moonshine stills in shop class. ) That means I have to be home by 2 PM or I’ll get stuck behind the rolling yellow traffic jams. Enough of my problems, here’s another song that ended up on the Clear Channel memorandum, which listed songs that were advised against playing after 9/11. I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King Most people who are older have heard the story behind Neil Sedaka’s hit “Oh! Carol”: he and Carole King were schoolmates, and he wrote it about her. (She re-worked the lyrics into “Oh! Neil” in response. ) I bring that up because the opening line is, “Oh, Carol, I am but a fool.” Yeah, it fits. I guess the line “I feel the sky tumbling down” was what the boneheads, ahem, execs at Clear Channel thought would be problematic. Other than that, this song about love (and maybe about sex, if your mind goes there….) seems like it was just plucked out of the blue and stuck on the list. There are albums that, for a lot of people, defined the 70s. Tapestry is definitely one of those albums, and one that I recommend if you’ve never listened to. You’ll feel the earth move, too. I Feel the Earth Move Written by Carole King Recorded by Carole King From Tapestry, 1971 Mellow as the month of May: