Everyday Creation
This show has to do with different kinds of creation: human, divine, and a third kind that connects the two. Our human creativity is easy to talk about because clearly we're prolific creators. We make music, we write, we cook; we establish businesses, we design gardens, we invent things. The list goes on and on. Another kind of creation is divine. We feel its presence when, for example, we contemplate birth, death, our life purpose, or have a quiet realization that there's something bigger than us. The third kind is perhaps a little more difficult to grasp and yet, with a little practice, it's easy to put into action. This is the personal power each of us has to direct our thoughts, words and actions every day toward what we want in our life and world, rather than what we don't want.
This sounds heavier than it is. For me, this show is an acknowledgment that while we're all here to learn and grow and do our best, there's still plenty of opportunity to relax, laugh, love, and enjoy this playground we call life. So my hope is that you'll get some enjoyment and illumination out of these episodes. Here you'll find interviews with delightfully creative individuals; short stories about some who have passed away; and essays about personal power.
I'm Kate Jones, host and creator of Everyday Creation. Thank you for following my show.
Everyday Creation
Never Mind that "The Tonight Show" was Great Exposure, Jesse Colin Young Did Things His Way
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Jesse Colin Young had a Top 5 single with the Youngbloods' version of "Get Together," but he didn't rest on those laurels. He continued to perform and also write his own songs both with the group and as a solo artist.
To listen to the Youngbloods sing "Get Together," you can go here. The song, about loving one another, plays as a fitting soundtrack to videos from Woodstock, the iconic peace and love event of 1969. In the chapters, there's a cover image of the CD "Get Together: The Essential Youngbloods," available on Amazon.
You can go here to listen to "Darkness, Darkness," which Young wrote and the Youngbloods recorded. It's on their "Elephant Mountain" album, which you can see in the chapters. The CD is also available on Amazon.
To learn more about the man and his long career, visit the Jesse Colin Young website where you can rent or purchase his 2020 Empty House Concert, recorded in Aiken, S.C., at the height of the Covid shutdown and buy CDs including the original 1973 master of "Jesse Colin Young (Song for Juli)" and the original master of "Light Shine."
The thumbnail photo shows Young arriving at the California Saga 2 Charity Concert in Los Angeles California on July 3, 2019. It's attributed to Glenn Francis of www.PacificProDigital.com and is available on Wikimedia under the license CC BY-SA 4.0.
The art that frames two sides of the photo was created by Bob Jones.
Song of the Day creator Sheldon Zoldan researched, wrote and narrated this short story, one of 35 tributes to music stars who passed away in 2025. Song of the Day used to be a daily feature delivered to an email list of subscribers. Sheldon ended it in early 2026 which, I suppose, means that Song of the Day deserves a tribute of its own. The good thing is that the tributes to music makers live on. Each is a snapshot of the life of one music maker whose work made an impact on the lives of many.
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Most entertainers would have killed to get a spot on “The Tonight Show.” Not Jesse Colin Young. He and his group, the Youngbloods, walked off the show in 1969 because it was running long and the group wasn’t allowed to play two songs as promised.
The Youngbloods were going to play one song from their new album and “Get Together.” Instead, the producer said they only could play “Get Together.” They said, “Thanks, but no thanks” and left the studio.
Frontman Jesse Colin Young died March 16th in Aiken, South Carolina. No cause of death was given. He was 83.
The Song of the Day is paying tribute to the singers, songwriters and musicians who died in 2025.
Young was born Perry Miller. He took his stage name from a couple of Western outlaws, Jesse James and Cole Younger, and Formula One design engineer Colin Chapman. He left New York University for a life in music in the early 1960s.
The Youngbloods, named after his second solo album, became the house band at the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village in New York City. They reached their peak in popularity in the late 1960s. They put out the single “Get Together” in 1967, and it would have been forgotten had it not been for being part of a 1969 public service announcement by the national council of Christians and Jews. The song was re-released and rose to No. 5 on the Billboard singles chart.
Chester Powers, who recorded as Dino Valenti, wrote the song in 1963 with the title “Let’s Get Together.” Many groups recorded it before the Youngbloods.
Young heard it during an open mic night. “The heavens opened and my life changed,” he told Goldmine Magazine in 2021. “Darkness, Darkness,” a song about what he thought it was like for a soldier trying to sleep while in Vietnam, is the most famous song he wrote. It reached No. 86 on the Hot 100.
