WLS Top Ten LPs and Tapes for Week of June 8, 1974: 'Band on the Run'

These were the Top ten albums on both LP and 8-Track format in Chicago fifty years ago.  How many are in your collection?

1.  THE STING (6th Week No. 1)--  Soundtrack

2.  BAND ON THE RUN--  Paul McCartney & Wings

3.  GREATEST HITS--  John Denver

4.  CHICAGO VII--  Chicago

5.  SHININ ON--  Grand Funk

6.  BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE II--  Bachman Turner Overdrive

7.  GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD--  Elton John

8.  BUDDHA AND THE CHOCOLATE BOX--  Cat Stevens

9.  COURT AND SPARK--  Joni Mitchell

10.  ROAD FOOD--  Guess Who

I personally have all but "Road Food" in my collection.

Must Have Really Been Enjoying My Music Back Then.  --RoadTooManyAlbums

Indy 500: Day One: May 24th

My 62nd birthday and too busy in morning packing and watering plants to do much about it.

Liz drove me over to Sue and Paul's and we hit the road in their RV.  Picked up Paul's brother John at an I-80 truck weigh station (closed) and drove over to I-65.  Stopped at the Meijer's in Merrilville for gas and stuff we forgot.

Gas was $3.86 there ($4 back in Round Lake).  Gas at Speedway, Indiana, on the outskirts of Indianapolis was $3.60.  Like I say, the farther from Chicago you get, the cheaper the gas.

Drove to the race course and to our parking spot in a field just to the west of it (behind the Speedway American Legion).  Set up "camp" as much as you can do in an RV and then had celebratory drinks.  We had arrived: me for my second trip, John for his eighth and Sue and Paul for their 13th.

That evening, I went over to the Legion and enjoyed their band, the Cowboy Cassanovas.

Gentlemen and....  --RoadDog


TOO PUNNY:  The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was............ A small medium at large.  (Really sorry about that one, folks.)

Just Got Back From Indy

We left Friday May 24th, my birthday and got back in town yesterday, May 27th.  I went via a friend's RV and spent three nights in it in a park right across the street from the track's Pagoda.

Not you typical campers, I'm told, with an abundance ofthe post-college crowd with loud music and yelling into the real wee hours.  And some of THEM were considerably OLDER!!!  Roughed it somewhat with no showers and port-a-potties for the most part.  And, the things I saw in those in the morning defy description.

Great time other than that.  Spent time at the American Legion right by us.  And, what a great race Sunday!!  I'll do the short daily description here and longer ones in my RoadDog RoadLog Blog after I finish the Lincoln Highway Motor Tour the weekend before.

Vroom-Vroom.  --RoadDog


TOO PUNNY:  A sign in the yard at the drug rehab center said, "KEEP OFF THE GRASS!!!"