Post by 40fan on Sept 9, 2011 22:54:14 GMT -5
I was somewhere on business between New York and Pennsylvania on a day in November 2001 when, flipping my car radio, I heard it; the song that brilliantly captured the mood, the feeling and the truth of 9/11. Alan Jackson's "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning") The signal kept fluttering but I managed to catch most of the lyrics. I began to cry. Everything I held back from that most horrible of days spilled out from my face! I pulled over and just let it go!
Fifteen or Twenty minutes later I got myself together and started again. I turned on the radio; hoping to either hear the song again or hear something that would bring me back to happiness. The latter happened!
A few weeks later I had a new job at Big Dog Country 103.5 in Sodus, New York. I answered the phones. Everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, wanted to hear "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning). It was #1 on The Country Countdown.
Flash forward to the present day. I click on a YouTube link to Jackson's performance of the song at the 2001 CMA's. Anybody got a tissue?
If this isn't one of the best songs ever written and recorded...
Fifteen or Twenty minutes later I got myself together and started again. I turned on the radio; hoping to either hear the song again or hear something that would bring me back to happiness. The latter happened!
A few weeks later I had a new job at Big Dog Country 103.5 in Sodus, New York. I answered the phones. Everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, wanted to hear "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning). It was #1 on The Country Countdown.
Flash forward to the present day. I click on a YouTube link to Jackson's performance of the song at the 2001 CMA's. Anybody got a tissue?
If this isn't one of the best songs ever written and recorded...
