Top Ten Beach Music Songs for April 22, 2023: 'Tequila On Ice'

I love my Beach Music and listen a lot to 94.9 FM, WVCO, the Surf out of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. the Center of the Beach Music Universe.  I'm listening to it right now.

These are the Top Ten Beach Music songs right now according to their listeners.  If you're looking for some really cool throwback kind of music, give it a listen.

1.  GOT IT RIGHT (THE FIRST TIME)--  Rick Strickland & Lesa Hudson

2.  OUGHT TO BE IN A SONG--  Pink Slips Band

3.  YOU'RE THE ONE FOR ME--  Rick Strickland

4.  GOT TO BE YOU--  Band of Oz

5.  THAT YOU HEAR IN A SONG--  Too Much Sylvia

6.  BREATHLESS--  Lesa Hudson

7.  HEY GIRL--  Scott Fine

8.  TEQUILA ON ICE-- Wayne Free

9.  I LOVE DOIN' NOTHING--  Starbuck

10.  TOP DOWN--  Nadia Lena  Shutkufski

GreatStuff--  RoadBeach

Hurricane Florence Hit Special Areas To Me

The last two weeks have been hard on me to the extent that this hurricane/storm hit a part of the United states that is very special to me.

That would be the North Carolina coastal area ab well as into South Carolina.

Plus, I have relatives living there still, including cousins, nephews, nieces and my brother.  Goldsboro was hard hit and that is where my brother and I were born and we spent many times at both grandparents homes (in Goldsboro and Mt. Olive, N.C.) and then my parents bought my mom's house and lived in it until their deaths.

Plus, my mom had a condo on the second row of Topsail Beach, North Carolina.  In addition, Carolina Beach was the vacation spot we went to for so many years as we grew up.  (Mom's parents even owned a cottage on the ocean there until Hurricane Hazel came through in 1954.)

And, Liz and I used to spend a lot of vacations in Myrtle Beach South Carolina.

I tell you, that storm really hit home.

--RoadDog

Great Smokey National Park, Highway 28 and the End of the Confederacy

APRIL 23RD, 2015:  Drove through both major drives through the National Park after buying our Golden Senior Pass at the visitor center.  ($10 for life getting into all national parks for free, such a deal.)  We hadn't intended on driving the first section, but made a wrong turn coming out of the center.

Once in Cherokee, N.C., we eventually got on NC-28 which eventually became Ga.-28, then S.C.-28.  Beautiful but tiring mountain driving the whole way.

Then all the traffic and traffic lights you could ever want in Anderson, S.C. and then Abbeville, S.C., and Washington, Georgia, two places playing a role in the end of the Confederacy.  *See my Saw the Elephant blog/

Ended up in Augusta, Ga. and watched the Hawks lose and Bulls win at Hooters.

--RoadDog

Ten Great Great Places to Live in 2013

From the July 25, 2013, Yahoo! Finance, Cost of Living.

These are cities based on affordability, good jobs and quality of schools.

10. DUBUQUE, IOWA, (We'll be there next week)
9. Anchorage, Alaska
8. ITHACA, NEW YORK

7. Morgantown, West Virginia
6. BILLINGS, MONTANA
5. Columbia, SC
4. SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO

3. Bryan/College Station, Tx
2. BURLINGTON, VERMONT
1. Little Rock, Arkansas

--RoadDog

It's Them, Not Me: Help Us!! Gas Gouge IS ON!!!!

On June 1st, gas in Fox Lake, Illinois, was "down" to $3.94 in the afternoon.  I say "down" because it was coming back down from a gas gouge up to $4.10.  We've had around five different gas gouges so far this year.  That evening, it had gone up to $4.10.

On the way to Milwaukee's airport the next day, gas was $3.86 in some stations and $4 in others.  Landing at Savannah's airport, the closest-in station was $3.60 and I thought, "Wow, gas is 'sure' cheap here."  Then, I saw gas for $3.24 at the next station.

Gas in Georgia (around Savannah ans Stateboro) was $3.20 to $3.26 (except for that one station).  Driving to North Carolina, I got gas on June 3rd for $3.17 in Florence, SC.  Gas in North Carolina (around Goldsboro and Raleigh) was between $3.30 to $3.40.

Then, yesterday, real "sticker shock." when I saw gas from between $4.16 and $4.20 in Wisconsin.  That was bad, but not as bad as good-old rip-off Illinois, where it was $4.20 to $4.40.  I heard something about three refineries being closed, supposedly for repairs.  I was told gas in Fox Lake was up to $4.35, that's a 41 cents jump in eight days.

A mighty good way to make profits if you ask me.  Of course, they know they can get away with it as our government won't do anything about it.  Obama's administration clearly has the GRB's back even if it hurts the majority of people in the country.

If I'm running things, there'd be a 99% tax on all profits like this.  Hey, the government needs money, anyway.  Then, perhaps there would be less incentive to make obscene profits like this.

Burning Again.  --RoadDog

Top 40 in South Carolina August 25, 1967-- Part 3

Beach Music shown with *.  Of course, any Motown, Soul or R&B songs also classifies as Beach Music.

21.  TURN OUT THE LIGHT--  Clifford Curry*
22.  FAKIN' IT--  Simon and Garfunkel
23.  I WANT TO LOVE YOU--  RonnieDove

24.  I HAD A DREAM--  Paul Revere
25.  HIGHER AND HIGHER--  Jackie Wilson
26.  GROOVIN'--  Booker T. & the MGs
27.  NEVER MY LOVE--  Association

28.  IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS--  Sonny and Cher
29.  FUNKY BROADWAY--  Wilson Pickett
30.  THINGS I SHOULD HAVE SAID--  Grose Roche

"Every Town I Go, There's a Funky Street."  --RoadDog

Top 40 in South Carolina August 25, 1967-- Part 2

From WKYB.  All the hits and Beach Music too, although back then, it wasn't called Beach Music.  essentially it would be local music.  Beach Music songs indicated with *.

11.  A GIRL LIKE YOU--  Young Rascals
12.  THANK THE LORD FOR THE NIGHTIME--  Neil Diamond
13.  TO LOVE SOMEBODY--  Bee gees

14.  WASHED ASHORE--  Platters*
15.  MARY, ROW YOUR BOAT--  Tams*
16.  COME BACK--  Bobby Vee (I imagine the whole title was "Come Back When You Grow Up Girl.")  Something about "underage?"
17.  YOU'RE MY EVERYTHING--  Temptations

18.  APPLES, PEACHES PUMPKIN PIE--  Jay & the Techniques
19.  ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE--  Beatles
20.  LIGHT MY FIRE--  Doors

"You Don't Know What It's Like."  --RoadDog

The Old BS'er and Beach Music

A&E did not have "24" on today at 7 AM our time, Central, so I went on the internet. I'm sitting right here at the old 'put, typing away with my two little fingers, and listening to Billy Smith coming at me live on the Surf from Myrtle Beach, SC. I love it when he plays the phone pranks; can't help but chuckle.

He also played a great one I haven't heard in a long time with his 50s pick, "Over the Mountain" by Johnny and Joe.

Aw, it's 8:50 and he's going off the air with his usual "I'm Going, But I'll Be Back" song. I'll just have to listen to Ted Bell now.

The Surf is "The Sound of the Beach" on the Grand strand and the World.

I voted on the Beach Music Top Forty Survey already. Ray Scott plays this countdown every Saturday from 9AM to noon. Top songs for this week are #1 :I Don't Want No Man" by Sea Cruz, and #2 "Emperor of My Baby's Heart" by Paul Craver.

A little bit about Billy Smith:

Billy was born in Marion, SC. As a child, his mother would take the five kids to Myrtle Beach on Sundays after church where he would go to the Pavillion (torn down this last fall) and boardwalk where the sounds emanating from the jukeboxes in the various bars enthralled them with their rhythm & blues records.

He began a regular at the local Marion record store and spent every dime he could get his hands on for R & B and Doo Wop songs, both of which are considered the forerunners of today's Beach Music. More to Come

My dad sure knew someone who also would spend all his money on records, which he largely considered as a waste of money. I wonder who that could be? Any guesses?

I also knew of one certain brother who pretty-well messed up his brother's Beatles collection while that brother was away at college. Now, who could that be? These records were left at home for safety. Didn't quite work out.

Doing the "Street Corner Serenade" by the Embers. --RoadDog