They're Playing My Old Dream

Ever have a dream that incorporates a song? A song that isn’t even your favorite and you don’t consciously think that you identify with?

Experience had, circa 1995 or thereabouts.

I was living with a pretty pop cultured guy at the time….enough that he rivaled my own knowledge. He was also heavily into sports…one of those things that I didn’t quite understand, seeing as I mostly dated musicians and the succession of them didn’t seem interested in cleats when there were drumsticks and guitar strings to be tinkered with.

I woke up one morning to find that I’d been tapped in the dream by a Kurtis Blow song. I turned to my then mate and told him that someone on the sidewalk was singing “They’re playing Baaaaaa-sket- Baaaaallllll” to me. He laughed. Until he realized that there was the possibility, at my insistence, that this song truly existed Out There. And that he didn’t know it despite the duality of being a Rap Master AND major basketball fan.

I couldn’t prove it as we’d never heard of the internet. I just had to wait on blind faith that eventually the song would someday to him, be served.

Well. Fifteen years later, just in case the song hasn’t made its way to him personally, I’ll put it out there universally.

FYI - see if you can note probable video style differences between 1995 and 2010. Hint: Too many sheep used in 1995 where floss would be used now.