Foreigner is coming to Shippensburg. They look waaaaay old in the ad in the paper. We are not going. Jackson Browne was just here. We missed him as well. No concerts this season after attending several last year. We went to REO, UFO, and Molly Hatchet....oh wait, that wasn't last year, I just had a flashback from 1978. Whoa. Head rush.
The local radio station had a countdown of the top 93 songs of ALL TIME over the holiday weekend. Stairway to Heaven was predictably number 1, and Deadbird, er, Freebird was number 2, but I was quite surprised by number 3. The number 3 song of ALL TIME according to the local radio station? You shook me all night long by AC DC. Ahead of The Who, ahead of The Stones, Hendrix, Joplin, ahead of Short People, or Safety Dance, ahead of 867-5309 Jenny, ahead of Godzilla, even ahead of Black Betty by Ram Jam. AC DC You shook me all night long. Now don't get me wrong, I love Angus and the boys, but I don't see this song cracking the top ten. Whole lotta Rosie, maybe.
It was fun listening to the countdown and laughing when they would play a classic like Under my Thumb, Satisfaction, or Foxy Lady and then have some lame song like Do you feel like we do (live version of course) ranked above it.
Hey, I was just looking at the upcoming birthday list and I noted that Denise Lupp and Diane Lupp not only share the same maiden name, but they share a birthday. What a coincidence. I wonder how many others of our classmates share a last name and a birthday? It must be pretty rare.
From what I can remember, I believe we had six sets of twins in our graduating class. Don't know if that was a school record or not, but pretty impressive.
Love the old songs as my daughter does. Journey is one of her very favorite groups (and she's only 12). At her Kindergarten Graduation (yup, her school had one of those - they don't anymore), they did a skit to The Stray Cat Strut. Imagine her surprise when we got home and I put on my vinyl recording of it for her.
Can't fathom that the songs we rocked to are now considered "Oldies"!
A few years ago, Boston and Frampton were in H-town the same week and I had out of town company and didn't make it. Talk about a blast from the past. I remember listening to K104's New Years Eve countdown as a younger teen (before the partying started) and I'd stay up all night long listening for number 1.
I remember doing that to, Sharie. Thought it was so cool to be able to stay up that late. Of course, I also use to make a list of the songs as they counted them down. Don't know why, or what purpose it served, or what I would do with it in my later years, but I did that every year. Sometimes I wish I had kept them, but I think the parental units threw that stuff out after I moved out. It would have been fun to go back and look over them to see what songs made that infamous list!
Yes, it started out as WCCK and then they got more broadcasting power or something like that and changed to K104. I also remember WJET radio. Yes, I remember WMDI. I was into the top 40 type music then and didn't listen to it though.
Are they still playing Christopher Cross, Air Supply, and Neil Diamond with regularity on the radio in Erie? That is how I used to know I was getting close. When I heard one of these artists on the radio, I knew I had picked up an Erie station so I was almost home.
I remember listening to WMDI and thinking I was breaking the rules or doing something I wasn't allowed to do. Counter-culturalish.
I used to visit my sister in Cleveland and listen to WMMS, The Buzzard. I thought that was the greatest rock station ever when I was 15. I wonder if that is still on the air. Probably talk radio now.
I remember WHYP or something like that. Whip radio I think? It was an AM station run by an elderly gentleman who used to fall asleep and you could hear the needle clicking over the 45" or 33" while he snoozed!! We used to turn it on just to marvel at the whole situation.
Erie has a decent country station I've noticed. After living in Texas for the last 29 years, I developed an affinity for the genre and Erie's station isn't too bad. They may even have two. Can't remember.
I only launch cows or giant wooden rabbits with my trebuchet.....Run aaaawaaaay!
We are technology challenged, two laptops and a PC and no webcam. And at $15 plus installation, no way I am buying one. So digital stills will have to suffice.
Some time after Halloween, we move the pumpkins to the top of the compost pile and watch them slowly deflate, collapse upon themselves, and rot away. After that, we might paint a room in our house and then watch the paint dry. You know, whatever interesting activities we can find to fill the time during the colder months.
ARRRR. Prepare, ye lubbers, ye scaliwags, attend well me words, Sunday, the nineteenth day o' the month, once again be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. (http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html)
May ye find fair winds in yer sails, frothy grog in yer tankard, and saucy wenches in e'ery port.
Yo ho, I be splicin' the main brace e'er the sun be settin', of that ye can be certain.
All wenches prepare to be boarded.
Cap'n Plunder
If ye be needin' instruction, attend t' the link below, ye salty sea dog.
http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/49/How-to-Talk-like-a-Pirate/QT
(So what this means is you are supposed to pillage and plunder, drink ale and rum, and talk like a pirate all day Sunday. For example, when you are at church Sunday, if you embrace talk like a pirate day, you have free rein to raid the collections plate, drink the communion wine straight from the bottle, and sing dirty drinking songs instead of hymns. "I loves to go swimmin' with bow legged women...and swim between their legs." A few years ago, I was talking like a pirate on Sept 19 in the Denver airport and was almost denied boarding on my flight. The two "squires" at the gate had little humor for my antics, so I run 'em through w' me sabre and boarded just as I please. As you can imagine, it's loads of fun.)
Oh, Jeff! Your posts always make me smile and laugh, and today was no different! Thanks for taking a rainy, gloomy Friday morning and bringing much needed sunshine into my day. Forever greatful!
Still hot here, like a frying pan, the surface of the sun, a bbq pit. We won't see fall for a while. However, and I say this with utmost glee, we're supposed to get a cool front that should bring temps down into the eighties. Picture Handel's Halleluja Chorus playing. Suppose to have a high of only 85 degrees today.
Has the scent of concord grapes filled the air in Harborcreek yet? I used to love how the air smelled like leaves and grapes around this time of year.
I remember staying up late to listen to the year-end countdown on WJET/WCCK/K104 for years and used to record portions of the countdown on cassette. Some of those cassettes are probably still in a box somewhere at my mom's house.
WMDI was to coolest of the cool with first-name-only DJs who sounded like they were stoned half the time and an AOR format that blew away the rest of the radio world. It used be played in the cafeteria in the morning when I went in to get a doughnut and I remember hearing an awesome song with odd time signatures, unpredictable rhythms, and a main guitar hook that stuck with me. The song was never ID'd by the DJ and I had no way to reach the station to ask what it was. Every time I went in to a record store I'd try to explain the song to see if anyone knew what it was. I finally heard it playing in a record shop in 1984, six years after I first heard it on the radio. It was "Nuclear Apathy", by Crack The Sky.
As for WMMS, yes, it's still on the air, but it's a shell of what it once was in the late seventies and 1980s. Back then it was rebellious, irreverent, and shameless, with classic radio personalities like Kid Leo, Len "Boom" Goldberg, Jeff & Flash, Matt the Cat, Dia Stein, Denny Sanders, Murray Saul, Betty "Crash" Korvan, Ruby Cheeks, BLF Bash. Now it's another corporate rock station that only has one local DJ who actually plays music. All the others are voice tracked.
I did observe Talk Like A Pirate Day, but, alas, most people just looked at me funny. I do remember that Cheech & Chong bit, Tony.
And as for Halloween, here's what the kids in Chagrin Falls do every year:
Hey guys - pretty cool some of you keep in touch like you are. l know my 20 year old and my 12 year old love alot of the songs we grew up with - and my 12 year old will sing them when they come on the radio. I ask 'how do you know this song'.........turns out it's because of guitar hero. Alot of the songs we went to high school with - he can sing and are his favorites - because of guitar hero. And Adrianne, you are right - there were 6 sets of twins in our class. Something they said was unique with the class size that we had. Can I name them all?? Lupp's, Pellow's / Chilcotte's / Carson (were they twins)? / Zellfrow's and who is the last set??? I'm trying to name them without going back to look. Were Colleen and Matt twins? Help me out on this one.
Dawn and Dana aren't twins but Dana told me years later that everyone simply assumed they were, so they let everyone go ahead and believe it. Dana called me about a month before the reunion and thought she might come but she ended up not. She was a riot and a half, a really funny person. Colleen has a birthday coming up and Matt's is in August, so according to the birthday list, they're not twins.
Heeeeeee Haw Jeff.
Oh, and happy birthday Jeff Hart and Denise and Dianne - a day or so early. And Becky Rea if she reads this forum.
Yea - Diane corrected me on the Carson's and she reminded me of the Kaufman's - she still lives in Erie and sees them - so it was easy for her to remember. She said everyone thought John and Lisa Lucas were twins too. She said there were two sets of girls (us and Kaufman's) - two sets of boys (Zellefrow's and Pellow's) and two sets of boy/girl (Chilcotte's and we're still trying to figure out the other one!)
Thanks for the birthday greeting Sharie. Actually going out tonight to celebrate - cause my kid has hockey tomorrow - so I will be spending it by my lonesome. I was in Erie last weekend so Diane and i celebrated then.
as well as previously mentioned Colleen and Matt Duckett, John and Lisa Lucas, and Jerri and Rich Davis
And there are always the twin sons of different mothers, Wayne Boyd and Mark Bowers
Or the siamese twins, joined at the hip Mary Jo Abbate and Norm Sweet, Tom May and Sharie Peters, Mark Dalglish and Julie Bissell, to name just a few
And of course, last but not least, nearly identical twins Jeff Hansen and Ron Jeremy....Ron got all the acting talent, I got the "short end" of the stick.
Jeff, I commend you on your research and as always your wit, and your memory is still sharp as a tack. I'd like to see some proof on the twin thing with you and RonXXX though. A pic on the forum will do. Something, you know, telling.
Back to you Denise. You now have the possible combos, so figure it out. You've got me curious now.
Kirk Stephenson is my cousin (not too many people knew that) so I can rule him out cause I'm not related to Cindy! Otherwise, even though we are all so sure it was 6 - I can only confirm 5.
I think they tricked us or something. Maybe they (the people who said there were 6 sets of twins) made it all up. You know, to give us something to ponder when we were old and gray, which would be, well, now. They're probably laughing at us right this second. It was all a conspiracy.
