There’s a song that I think is called “Goin’ Down” or “I’m Goin’ Down”, by some rock group in the late '60s or early '70s. I heard it on FM radio back then, but never found out who it was by, or the proper title. The lyric that I can remember is fairly simple. Chord changes in brackets:
(I) I’m goin’ down
Down, down, down, down, down
(IV) I’m goin’ down
Down, down, down, down (I) down
(V) Got my head out the window
(I) And I’m (something something…)
That’s all I can remember of it. Anybody know what it is?
A radio station in Canton, Ohio played a few bars of the Springsteen version just after the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986. I remember the DJ coming back on after a few moments of stunned silence and saying, “I am so, so sorry…”
While this isn’t the answer, you should dig out one of your Status Quo albums (c’mon, you know you have at least one), find Down Down, and give it a spin. Thank me later…
You know, the only things I know by Status Quo are “Pictures Of Matchstick Men” and an absolutely cringeworthy cover of John Fogerty’s “Rockin’ All Over The World.” I know they have a bazillion albums, but nobody ever played them on the radio where I lived, and nobody I knew had a single one of their records.
There are so many artists I’ve never heard, due only to lack of exposure to them. Somebody turned me on to King Crimson, Deaf School, Kete Bush, and many others, but I’ve never been anywhere that someone had anything by certain groups that have large followings. Like the Dead, Humble Pie, Spooky Tooth, Savoy Brown and others. I should have had an older brother.
