We’ve had a lot of rock and roll lately. Music for rolling down the windows and ripping through guitar solos that frighten people at the stop lights. Historically it’s been an active and jittery time.

Sometimes however, your get up and go disc jockey needs to realize that these podcasts are going to orbit the earth like space junk forever. Listeners who haven’t even been born yet will come along and want to be hippies and wonder where all the peace and love went.

So here comes a post love child high tech outdoor nap in a pile of color changing leaves of grass. Songs and writers who plied their trades just before the culture dictated everybody hide in their bedrooms and get sad.

The goal is to mellow down easy. Come away with a playlist that isn’t really therapy as much as it is a step back. Happiness runs in a circular motion. You can be anything if you let yourself be.

That’s a Donovan line. At the time of this recording he’s an old man, just as cosmic as ever. Simon and Garfunkel still don’t speak much, but they sit on the park bench like bookends.

The Fab Four recorded Let It Be during a legal session from hell that would dissolve the Beatles forever, and it just turned out to be another stop on the highway that was the long and winding road.

Join us now for a break in the action with some wise tunes that never made any charts. Except for maybe this one. This is Old School #76, Professor Mikey with the Let It Flow Chart.

Let It Flow / Jimmie Spheeris 1972

The Boy with the Moon and Star on His Head / Cat Stevens 1972

Caribbean Blue / Enya 1991

Shahdaroba

/ Roy Orbison 1963

Nature Boy / Nat King Cole 1947

Sand and Foam / Donovan 1966

Dawn / Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny 1975

Dust / Fleetwood Mac 1972

I Found a Reason / Velvet Underground 1993

Traction in the Rain / David Crosby 1971

Strawberry Letter #23 / Shuggie Otis 1971

Sisters of Mercy / Leonard Cohen 1967

Running Up That Hill / Kate Bush 1985

Electrolyte / R.E.M 1996

The past is a blast.