Greater than 50 years in the past, Sally Taylor’s mom penned a tune a couple of self-obsessed particular person taking a airplane straight to Nova Scotia to see a photo voltaic eclipse; a couple of months in the past, Taylor made an identical journey, arriving in time for a unique eclipse.
Taylor’s mom is Carly Simon, singer of the 1972 hit “You’re So Useless,” which incorporates the road, “You then flew your Learjet as much as Nova Scotia/To see the full eclipse of the solar.”
“I believed, like, OK, Nova Scotia has obtained to be the good place on the planet, which I’m positive set a seed as a baby in my head that sometime I is likely to be as lucky because the Learjet man to finish up in Nova Scotia,” Taylor stated. “And right here I’m.”
Taylor now lives in Halifax and not too long ago researched the upcoming eclipse, studying it’ll occur on Monday.
“And I feel, what? I obtained right here simply in time for the full eclipse of the solar,” she stated. “Instantly I name my mother and I’m like, are you kidding me?”
Simon, 79, instructed CTV Information Atlantic over the telephone she hasn’t been to Nova Scotia, however she drew inspiration from true occasions.
“I examine it someplace in some paper that he adopted his journey to Saratoga by going as much as Nova Scotia,” she stated.
As for the id of the particular person in “You’re So Useless?”
“Oh, don’t be foolish,” Simon stated with fun when requested. “You recognize I can’t reply that.”
Taylor stated she plans to soak up the photo voltaic eclipse whereas enjoying her mom’s tune on repeat.
“I’m actually hoping that everyone comes out and enjoys the photo voltaic eclipse and remembers Learjets and Carly Simon, and simply acknowledge what a particular occasion it’s,” she stated. “Perhaps it’ll encourage them to put in writing a tune? Hopefully it’ll.”
