:: SYNCHRONICITY - from parishioner Plushpig.

Now this is getting just TOO weird.

It started last Thursday. I was listening to a recently acquired French Ye Ye compilation, “Salute Les Copains”, when one track really started to bug me. It was a cover (as indeed most of the others were) and vaguely familiar but I couldn’t for the life of me place it. All I knew was the Gallic title, “Sacre Dollar”. A search of the internet told me the original was by The Kingston Brothers & was called GREENBACK Dollar. Curiosity satisfied, I thought no more about it.

Saturday. A spontaneous pop into town, and visit to the last remaining vinyl outlet, a small stall in the local market. Idly riffling through I catch sight of a record by, yes, The Kingston Trio and turning it over note the name of the opening track…. Need I go on?. £1.99 well spent.

Now. I open this morning’s Guardian and as usual, turn to the obituaries page. Blow me down, If K. Trio founder Nick Reynolds hasn’t gone and joined bandmate John Stewart in that big hootenanny in the sky.

It’s almost enough to make me fork out for The Police’s “Synchronicity” the next time I see it in a charity shop.

The last time something similar happened was back in the 80’s when I woke hung-over one morning and for no apparent reason burst in to a bracing chorus of “Eve of Destruction”. If I say it involves another “spontaneous” decision to go vinyl truffling, you can probably guess the rest. (On the original Dunhill label too; with a Dunhill paper sleeve).

I mean to say, What IS going on???

And why do Greenwich Village folkie types seem to hold a monopoly?

THE VICAR WRITES:

"I recall similar karmic coincidence when restocking the juke box in the church hall. Perhaps other parishioners have experienced similar spooky goings-on when in their local HMV.

Do tell >"

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