Play the Jukebox Top Ten: Spanish Pipedream (#9)

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Well, here we are! Colonoscopy day! If my comments and replies are loopy this afternoon, just consider the source: I’ll be knocked out in a couple of hours, so I’ll be crazier than normal. Meanwhile, as I scoot out the door toward the hospital I’ll leave you with this jukebox song that’ll definitely make @TheHorse happy. #9: Spanish Pipedream - John Prine Gee, he never says “Spanish” or “pipedream” in the song, so what’s with the title? Who cares, this is a great song. Actually, John Prine told Bobby Bare on Bare’s Bobby Bare and Friends, “It was a romantic idea, and I always thought that Spanish stuff was romantic. I should have just called it ‘Blow Up Your TV.’” Yeah, well…. Prine was so good at making you laugh (“I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve”) while driving a point home. In this song, that’s now 55 years old, he provided the cure for the anxiety we have from the news: “blow up your TV, throw away your papers.” I’m fully aware of the fact that tastes in music are among the most individual tastes that we have; however, Prine’s debut album is one I’d recommend to just about anyone. Spanish Pipedream Written by John Prine Recorded by John Prine From John Prine, 1971 JUKEBOX LYRICS: She pressed her chest against me about the time the jukebox broke