… was, you recall, Sympathy for the Devil, Rolling Stones.
The wood thrush’s ee-oh-lay — which, now that the babies are here, I hear all day long — is the theme to Mission Impossible.
The ee-oh-lay notes start at fifteen seconds into the Mission Impossible You Tube. It’s those three strong notes that work through the piece, a leit-motif.
Here’s the wood thrush. Hear it?
June 10th, 2009 at 9:01PM
You can see now how sharp Hopkins was with his rinse and wring.
June 10th, 2009 at 10:58PM
Are there red-winged blackbirds in Bohemia?