It may come as a surprise, but I have a few responsibilities other than creating art.

8"x10"  "Holstein Calf Up-Close Study"

One of my other responsibilities besides painting cows is joining Mr. Rich in raising our 16 year old daughter Rilee.   She happens to have a wonderful sense of humor, and I am always tickled when we can share a good laugh.

Whenever we're in the car Rilee's first priority is taking charge of the music.   This morning as I was driving her and her friend to summer school,  she put on the Bee Gee's singing "More Than A Woman" of "Saturday Night Fever" fame.

This is not because she loves the song, but to delight in the random falsetto noises made by Barry Gibb in the background. Mind you, this song was at the height of it's popularity in the 70's, released in 1977 when I was 18 and disco was king, a song I remember well, each and every fabulously falsetto utterance.   Do I admit that I thought Barry Gibb, with his hairy chest and medallions was kind of sexy?  Or that I really loved John Travolta's three piece polyester suit, the hip young man's dress attire of my era?   Not out loud, not yet anyway. :)  

(Come on, I wasn't alone, 'fess up in the comments if you were there!)

In case you are wondering what brings this 37 year old song from my teen years to the attention of my daughter and her friend, the answer is Jimmy Fallon, in his Saturday Night Live skit "The Barry Gibb Talk Show".  If you haven't seen it yet, now is a good time.   It really is pretty funny, and guess who shows up in the end?

I loved having a laugh with them, and at myself for having been in the middle of it all back in the day, but the kicker of this story is that the girls didn't have any idea who Barry Gibb was the first time they saw the skit on SNL,  but they were amused by it and said, "we need to see who this Barry Gibb guy is," leading them to youtube, and giving them a whole new appreciation for the skit and the songs of the Bee Gee's, which we enjoy together in amusement,  one random falsetto outburst after another.