I watched this and remembered that 40 years ago, when I was in the South doing the journalism thing, I interviewed the Starland Vocal Band. “Afternoon Delight” was a big hit, and the band had yet to get their short-lived TV variety show.

I interviewed Bill and Taffy Danoff (whose names I just had to look up) but the two other members were off getting food between shows and didn’t seem very interested in being interviewed, anyway.

So I wrote a nice little feature, and a few weeks later, Taffy sent me a thank you letter and all of the albums they had released. I still have the albums somewhere in my pile of vinyl. I might have the letter somewhere, too. But that was literally 40 years ago.

How is that possible?

Here’s something I should have known when I wrote my story. Bill and Taffy already had a super-mega hit record. They wrote “Country Roads” with John Denver in 1971. I didn’t know that until just now. That’s why you’re supposed to do research before you write a story.

And through the weirdness of the cosmos, we all lived in D.C. at the same time.