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Ordinarily when I watch
Cold Case I can pick out the killer based on which actor in the guest cast is most famous. Tonight I guessed it was Chad Everett, who played the 2006 version of the partner of the victim, a police officer gunned down in 1968. I was wrong, for once, and Everett gave a heartbreaking performance as the cop who regretted abandoning his partner to his cruel fate, in more ways than one.
The real reason I watch
Cold Case is for the music, of course. I don’t watch a lot of cop shows, but this one has the best song score on TV. Tonight I played a little
Name That Tune, which was easy since I was 19 and a college freshman in 1968. I recognized most of the songs -- “Daydream Believer,” “Love Me Two Times,” “Pictures of Matchstick Men” and “Slip Around” -- in two or three notes. That would have got me the grand prize on the old quiz show. I had a little more trouble with the Byrds song that ended the episode. I had to dig deep into my memory to come up with the title, which happens to be the title of this entry as well.
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