Newfangled Dad

It's been awhile and the blog has been sitting, collecting dust. But it's back for a special project! Starting in 2018, I did a photo collection with my daughter where she showed a new facial expression of the day. It was fun and she ended up receiving a book of the 65 photos as a gift for her 8th birthday recently. Now, her older brother (9) wants a creative activity with dad and we came up with what you see launching today. I've had the idea for awhile that it would be fun to listen to some of the best music ever recorded and get the reaction of kids who have never heard it. He had the idea to add artwork. Please enjoy as we explore Rolling Stone' s list starting today with #500. #500 "Shop Around"

Today's song is "Shop Around" by Smokey Robinson Motown's 1st record to sell 1 million copies. Also the 1st Motown song in the Top 5.  This is how we picture the song. Can you follow the lines with the song? This is what we heard:  Kinda vibrate-y. Shakey. Right after that it explodes and all the music is there. It stays loud and at one part gets quiet and goes right back up and does that a couple of times before the song ends. The song is kind of “hyper.” This is how I drew the picture: I drew my picture to match the way I heard the song. The blue is the sudden explosion at the beginning and the red and yellow lines represent how it stayed. Green zigzags are the low parts. The yellow line on the right side of the page is low to high.