Summer Songs

Saturday night during WRCOs’ Those Were the Days, I will put the spotlight on summer songs. This is always a fun topic because of the stories that surround some of the requests. I can remember riding the bus home on the last day of school in 1974 and hearing Gordon Lightfoot singing Sundown. While fishing in the Willow Creek in 1980, I was listening to my cassette copy of the Billy Joel album Glass Houses. Those are a couple of ideas that I can recall and are examples of our theme. We will be playing songs that mention summer, but also, we can share some of your memories of activities that make you think of songs. In the summer of 1976, I was dreading going back to school and fearing having to climb the rope in phy-ed class. That was a skill that I never mastered. The soothing sounds of Peter Framption singing Show Me the Way helped to take my mind off of possible rope burns. In 1978 I was at Krouskops’ Department store with my mom buying an athletic supporter. Talk about embarrassing! The sound of Wings singing With a Little Luck kept me from worrying about how wear it. In 1981 I was pulling loads of hay while the Greg Kihn Band song The Break-up song (They Don’t Write ‘Em). What are your summer songs? Give me a call or text between six and midnight Saturday night and tell you stories. We can change the names to protect the innocent.

Those Were the Days on WRCO, WRCO.com, or courtesy of the Civic Media app is celebrating forty years this year. Thanks to the Richland Center Lions for giving me a anniversary cake last week. That really means a lot to me and the station. I am grateful to still be able to do the job I love after all of these years.

Phil