Red Rubber Ball

DESCRIPTION: A song of separation: "I should have known you'd bid me farewell.... If I never hear your name again, it's all the same to me. And I think it's gonna be all right... The mornin' sun is shinin' like a red rubber ball." The other wasn't worth knowing anyway
AUTHOR: Bruce Woodley and Paul Simon (source: Wikipedia)
EARLIEST DATE: 1966 (various albums, according to Wikipedia)
KEYWORDS: love separation | morning sun
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RECORDINGS:
Guy Wolff, "Red Rubber Ball" (Fragment: Piotr-Archive #441, recorded 01/08/2023)
NOTES [72 words]: Emphatically a pop song, though composed by people considered "folk"; it even reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the band "The Cyrkle" in 1966, according to Wikipedia. Hearing the recording, I was more reminded of a Boy Band than either folk or rock. The only hint that it's traditional is the Guy Wolff fragment. Not enough evidence, I don't think. But better safe.
I was really tempted to give this the keyword "whining." - RBW
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File: DPio444

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