Three Dog Night, "Pieces of April"

I went to college in the days immediately preceding the World Wide Web's takeoff among the general public. In its stead, I spent much of my online time grazing Usenet, a hierarchical set of forums with self-explanatory names like rec.arts.poetry and rec.music.monkees. (And less-self-explanatory ones like soc.motss - in the days when it wasn't OK to be gay, we spoke stealthily of our love under this inside acronym for members of the same sex.)

One day there was a discussion at rec.music.misc of songs that involve murders. "Hey Joe," "Down by the River," and the like. Thinking myself clever, I chimed in, "What about 'Pieces of April'?" (A moderate 1973 hit for Three Dog Night, most assuredly not about a murder, written by Dave Loggins, who would write for them the even prettier "Til the World Ends" before having his own hit with "Please Come to Boston.")

Someone far more clever immediately shot back: "Is that why there was a mourning in May?"

So here's to Usenet, here's to Three Dog Night and one of their underappreciated ballads, and here's to making it through a mostly chilly and partly pollenated April.