Terry Kirkman

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/terry-kirkman-dead-the-association-1235733822/

 

Singer, songwriter (“Cherish”, “Everything That Touches You”, “Six Man Band”, and others), and multi-instrumentalist Terry Kirkman was one of the co-founders of The Association, a 1960s folk-rock band that Bruce Eder characterized at AllMusic.com as follows:

 

The group's smooth harmonies and pop-oriented sound (which occasionally moved into psychedelia and, much more rarely, into a harder, almost garage-punk vein) made them regular occupants of the highest reaches of the pop charts for two years -- their biggest hits, including "Along Comes Mary," "Cherish," "Windy," and "Never My Love," became instant staples of AM play lists.

 

I was enough of a fan (others differ) to see a recent incarnation of the band perform a few years back.

 

I’ve previously listed my favorite tracks from their second album, so I haven’t included those below.

 

Favorite tracks (non-Renaissance division):

Six Man Band

Along Comes Mary

Cherish

Goodbye Columbus

Windy

Your Own Love

Time For Livin’

Round Again

Everything That Touches You

Never My Love

Standing Still

Enter The Young

Changes

September 22, 2023 – Braves 9, Nats 6

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/WAS/WAS202309220.shtml

 

Time: 3:01

Attendance: 36,297

 

As with our previous game, the weather was reasonably cooperative, as it didn’t start raining until the final few innings, by which time the home team’s fate was pretty much decided. (We took the opportunity to leave a little early.) Ronald Acuña led off the game and made history by hitting his 40th homer of the year to go with his 60+ stolen bases. Two batters later, the Braves led 3-0 when Austin Riley hit the second homer of the inning off Nats starter Patrick Corbin. The visitors extended their lead in the top of the third when Acuña doubled and scored on two fly balls.

 

Atlanta starter Charlie Morton left after the first inning with a finger injury, and Washington did fight back against the Braves’ bullpen, with one run in the third and two in the fourth. After the two 4th-inning runs, Darius Vines walked the bases loaded, but Dominic Smith struck out to end the frame.

 

Unfortunately, the Nats gave those two runs right back. With one on and one out, Dave Martinez lifted Corbin after just 68 pitches, apparently not wanting Acuña to have another crack at him. The move backfired, as reliever Jordan Weems hit Acuña with a pitch and then allowed both runners to score. And when Washington cut the margin to 6-4 in the bottom of the 6th, Marcell Ozuna immediately answered with a backbreaking 3-run HR.

 

What made our attendance worthwhile was the salute to beloved former Nats reliever Sean Doolittle, one of the heroes of their 2019 championship run, who announced his retirement earlier in the day. He rode the cart in from the bullpen one last time prior to the game and took the mound to deliver a strike to fellow Washington favorite Gerardo (“Baby Shark”) Parra. As a final tribute, Weems became one of the few other pitchers to take the cart when he came into the game.

 

Somewhat surprisingly, there were still some Keibert Ruiz bobbleheads left when I arrived at 6:35, despite the large crowd.