Dance Jams and the Spring of 1976

We have a full night of features on this Saturday night’s edition of Those Were the Days on WRCO, WRCO.com and the Civic Media app. You will be able to hear the results of a recent poll. Thanks to Adam Hess for helping us with this one. The question was about the song or songs you consider your jams. A song that could get you to the dance floor. This should make for a fun topic, and I guarantee that you might even get up and shake your groove thing. Later in the night I will feature a playlist of favorites that our friend Shari Bundts requested over the years. She was a ‘Super Fan’ of the show. It will be an honor to feature a celebration of life when we play some of her most favorite songs.

Songs from the spring of 1976 will come back when we feature the top songs from this weekend fifty years ago! It was an amazing time as the country was preparing for a Bi-Centennial celebration. Ithaca Elementary was decorated with red, white, and blue items. Mrs. Vrana had a bulletin board full of items. I was so overcome with patriotism that I signed her copy of the Declaration of Independence. I am not sure why I didn’t sign it using someone else’s name such as Marty Richards, or Brian Alvin. Perhaps I thought I would throw Mrs. Vrana off because she would not expect a student so bold that they would sign their own name. Needless to say, this added to my days of not having a recess and the number of sentences I had to write as punishment. One would think that I would have given up my life of 6th grade crimes after this caper, but no. Each week the school lunch menus were hung on the classroom walls. After reading about such delicacies as Beatnik Stew, Jello containing carrots and celery, Spam Surprise, and Beefy Biscuit Cake, I decided to editorialize by writing on the lunch menu. This prompted a trip to see Mr. Garner whose voice could be heard over 2 counties when he was upset. “Do you think your folks, Jim and Rose Mary, would be happy that their son, Philip, wrote ‘Poopy Stew’ on this document that their tax dollars helped purchase? His booming voice and his threat to call my parents was enough to make me behave for at least a week or so. There were many great songs from 1976 running through my head as I sat in the classroom while my friends went outside and played softball, drop the handkerchief, and kill the guy with the ball. Hear some of those great hits from my misspent youth during T.W.T.D. on Saturday night.

I will not be taking requests this weekend. Keep those in mind for next Saturday’s show. Here is the schedule of special themes for this weekend’s program.

7:00 p My Favorite Dance Floor Jams

8:00 p Tribute to the ‘Wild Woman of Woodman’

9:00 p 1976 Countdown

Philip

p.s. I will not deface school property by writing rude things

I will not deface school property by writing rude things

I will not defece school property by writing rude things