{"id":161,"date":"2009-09-07T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2009\/09\/07\/161\/"},"modified":"2010-05-09T19:30:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T00:30:06","slug":"161","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"GOODBYE, JIMBO"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s nice how you the web can put you in touch with old memories. For some random reason, I recently thought about an old song that used to make me cry. No, it didn’t touch my soul. It just scared me as a dorky, over-sensitive little six-year old. The song is called “Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye”<\/b>. Since my name is James and I was frequently referred to as “Jimmy” when I was six, you might be able to figure out why that song heightened my insecurities. <\/p>\n

But I did a quick search and found a video for it<\/a> on YouTube. So I now know that “Goodbye Jimmy” was a 1959 hit song by Kathy Linden. On hearing it again after 45 years, I had a rather different reaction. I like it now; it’s sentimental. And by this point in life, I’ve learned to accept the goodbyes and get on with things. My life — everyone’s life — is a long series of goodbyes, of losing the things that you came to love. Sic obduco palma illius quod nos diligo.<\/i> <\/p>\n

And actually, “Goodbye Jimmy” isn’t completely sad. It holds out hope for an eventual reunion, although in a melancholy fashion. To quote the refrain, “I’ll see you again, but I don’t know when …” And guess what? I’m not the only kid who cried when the radio played this song. The YouTube page has a comment by a fellow now in his fifties (like me), who said “I woke up this morning thinking of this song for some reason. My name is Jimmy and when I was about 5 I always thought it was about me … It made me cry too, when I was little!” So, I wasn’t crying alone after all. <\/p>\n

Another “goodbye song” that I like is the Bay City Rollers 1975 version of “Bye Bye Baby”<\/a> (originally recorded in 1965 by the Four Seasons). The Rollers give it a Beach Boys-like ending, an interesting twist on what was otherwise a Frankie Valli standard. <\/p>\n

Finally, my political cynicism for the week, in the form of a rhetorical question. Which was more stupid: not vetting Van Jones, or beating on the President for telling kids to study hard and stay in school? Too bad that we can’t just say “bye bye”<\/b> to everyone presently in the White House and Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s nice how you the web can put you in touch with old memories. For some random reason, I recently thought about an old song that used to make me cry. No, it didn’t touch my soul. It just scared me as a dorky, over-sensitive little six-year old. The song is called “Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye”. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}