Redtree Times

What’s your name? Who’s your daddy?

Is he rich, is he rich like me?

A couple of memorable line from the old Zombies song, The Time of the Season.  

Knowing the true name of something has often been the sign of power over that person or thing. Think of a shaman performing an incantation, perhaps like the one depicted in this older piece I painted  many years ago.  I suppose that means that if one can know the truth, the real essence, of something, they can control or dominate it.

There is obviously something to the concept and  causes me to worry a bit for the open nature of our lives today  as expressed on blogs and social networks.

Maybe it’s a little paranoid, but I would rather be the incantor than the incantee.

Anyway, that’s only the premise to get to a little music.  I bet you thought it would be The Time of the Season ( which is a great song, one where the original is far superior to any subsequent covers) but actually I wanted to play a song that was sung many times over the years and remains a lot of fun to hear.  Plus it’s another great snapshot of the time with go-go dancers and everybody in jackets and ties.  Here’s Shirley Ellis and  The Name Game.