# We're all in the mood for a melody

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [July 19, 2021, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-in-the-mood-for-a-melody/946851 "2021-07-19T20:03:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-in-the-mood-for-a-melody/946851/32 "2021-07-20T14:07:02Z")

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In honor of this news: [Kansas violinist/singer Robby Steinhardt dies at 71](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-violinist-singer-robby-steinhardt-dies-at-71/946874/5)

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tH2w6Oxx0kQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Kansas - Dust in the Wind (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ)

ETA:

> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> I’m not usually a big fan of covers but this cover of [Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8LBkYjniTU&list=FLkKiDfuotcMiliNjptWCnsg&index=1) is pretty awesome

As a Michigander with a fondess for the Gordon Lightfoot version, I did not dig this rocked-up version at first, but I gradually warmed up to it. Well-done video. One amusing thing at the end I noticed-- for the lyrics “In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed” the singer pronounced Detroit the American way, with two syllables, not “Dee-TROY-it” like Lightfoot, so he had to add a word to keep the meter: “…Detroit _ **where** _ they prayed”

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