133. Fox On The Run by Manfred Mann 1969

Summer 1969 and school was about to finish. Box Hill High were having one of their regular free dress days. The times being as they were once the uniforms were off the whole school became relaxed. Radios were turned up and the lines were just a little less straight. That morning I had heard the best song ever. Well since the last one and until the next one. I was busy extolling the virtues of the said song standing out the front of the school facing the busy Whitehorse Road when from the art room window came blasting the song of the day. Fox On The Run by Manfredd Mann

I couldn't help but sing along. And it was such a great song to sing along to. Despite my friends looks of disdain. Hey I was in the choir in Form 1, how bad could I be?

There was a film clip that accompanied the song full of long haired girls in flowing dresses walking beside glistening lakes in black and white parklands. It was something they showed on the Saturday morning pop shows I watched religiously. I don't think it was an official video cos the band wasn't in it. Just the park, the river and beautiful long haired girls. I wanted to be there. Not hippy but very groovy sixties which truth be told was probably the early seventies because that's when it really took off.