A Song for Olympic Silver: Silver’s Blue by the Horace Silver Quintet



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Here’s a jazz song (available for free download from Freegal) for the silver medalist who’s feeling blue.

I always feel a kinship with the silver medalists. In my senior year of high school I took second place at the state track meet.

Three times. 100 yard dash, 220 yard dash, long jump.

I missed out on first by a tenth of a second, or by a few inches.

The Olympic announcers make it sound like it’s all about who wants it more. But some days you come across someone who can run a little faster, jump a little farther, shoot a little straighter.

I’ve noticed that silver medalists, as a whole, tend to be an unhappy lot. They are usually the ones that thought they had a shot at the gold, but something went wrong and they had to settle for silver.

For all those who came up a little bit short, put on a little “Silver’s Blue,” wallow in a little groovy, funky jazz, and dream of next year.