Song a Day Meme: Day 21

High school was, for the most part, not a happy time for me. I was ostracized by most students, bullied, and some other stuff I may someday write about. I was active, though, in a few organizations, including Students Against Driving Drunk (SADD). One of my favorite high school memories involved a dance sponsored by SADD. As a member/officer of the SADD chapter, I showed up to all the dances. At the end of the night most of the students had gone home, but there was a small group still lingering. At that point the DJ put on what I consider to be the defining song of today's artist, and those of us left formed a semi-circle, holding hands, and swayed to the song. It was one of the few times I felt a part of most of high school life, and identified with those other students.

Fast forward to after I dropped out of Oswego. I believe the year may have been 1994. I was working for a company in upstate NY, and the radio station my co-workers tuned into was thankfully one of those which does not play the same song twice in a 24-hour period. The radio station also had another stricture -- they would not play a song by the same artist in a given hour. One day, though, the DJ announced that he was making an exception. It was the birthday of one William Martin Joel, and thus he was going to play two of his songs. One of them was "Piano Man", the song which evoked such strong good memories from that SADD dance. The other was one of his newer songs, "River of Dreams", which happens to be today's song, eg one I listen to when I'm happy.
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