JSS: Ally Lehman-- Windy-- Snow and Cold

JSS--  Just Some Stuff.

1.  ALLY LEHMAN--  We first saw her back in February when we went to DeKalb for NIU's Spring Homecoming and saw both the men and women's basketball teams.  We were quite impressed with the play of a short-haired girl out on the court, Ally Lehman.  She was excellent on the court.

We have since learned that she had all her hair cut off because of a teammate diagnosed with cancer and taking treatments.  We then learned that she is a senior and in ROTC and will be commissioned an officer when she graduates this spring.  Quite a Gal.

2.  WINDY, REALLY, REALLY WINDY--  I have never seen the wind blow as hard as it has the last two days.  A real wind tunnel.

3.  SNOW AND COLD--  The whole time we were in Panama City Beach at the end of last month we kept seeing the temps back home in Spring Grove, Illinois, in the 60s for many of the days.  Now that we are back, it has been nowhere near as nice with it dipping below freezing last weekend and tomorrow and the next day we are forecast for highs of 25 and 29.  And, we had about an inch of snow this morning, which melted very fast, though.

Too bad they couldn't have reversed the weather.

JSS.  --RoadDog

WLS Top 40 for March 10, 1967-- Part 3: "Lawdy Miss Clawdy"

30.  ON A CAROUSEL--  Hollies   #11    From Manchester, England.

29.  MORNING TOWN ROAD--  Seekers   #44   Last of four Top 100s.  Folk-pop quartet.  Their biggest hit was "Georgy Girl" (#2- 1967)

28.  MR. UNRELIABLE--  Cryan Shames   Didn't rank, but this was another example of WLS promoting local Chicago bands.

27.  LAWDY MISS CLAWDY--  Buckinghams   #41.  Thanks WLS.

26.  EPISTLE TO DIPPY--  Donovan   #19  Donovan Phillip Leitch

Name That Tune (from the above):  "Horses Chasing Cause They're Chasing."  --RoadDog


"On a Carousel"

WLS Top 40 for March 10, 1967-- Part 2: "The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game"

35.  DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL--  Al Martino   #42  Had 34 Top 100s.  Born Alfred Cini.

34.  59TH STREET BRIDGE SONG--  Harpers Bizarre   #13  Santa Cruz, California quintet

33.  WHAT A WOMAN IN LOVE WON'T DO--  Sandy Posey   (D)   #31.  From jaspar, AlabamaShe had three #12s:  "Born a Woman," "Single Girl" and "I Take It Back."  The country Girl Group sound.

32.  THE HUNTER GETS CAPTURED BY THE GAME--  Marvelettes   #13.  From Inkster, Michigan.  Had 23 Top 100s.

31.  I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOUR CARES--  Frankie Laine    #39  Born in Chicago as Frank paul LoVecchio.

Name That Tune (from the above):  "Slow Down, You Move Too Fast."  --RoadDog

YOU'RE DRINKING TOO MUCH COFFEE WHEN:  Someone says, "How are you?", and you say, "Good to the last drop."



"59th Street Bridge Song"

WLS Top 40 for March 10, 1967-- Part 4: "This Is My Song"

25.  I'VE BEEN LONELY TOO LONG--  Young Rascals   #16   This group was really hot 1966-1968, with three #1s.

24.  THIS IS MY SONG--  Petula Clark    #3  From Epsom, England.  Born Nov. 15, 1932.

23.  ARE YOU THE KIND--  Flock   Did not rank.  WLS backing another local Chicago band.  A grteat little, short (1:55) pop song complete with a jangling guitar.

22.  NO FAIR AT ALL--  Association    #50   Group formed in Los Angeles in 1965.

21.  MAIRZY DOATS--  Innocence    #75  This group also recorded as the Tradewinds.

Name That Tune (from above):  "AS I Look Back, I Can See Me Lost and Searching."  --RoadDog


"I've Been Lonely Too Long"

WLS Top 40 for March 10, 1967-- Part 1: "Hippy Dippy Weatherman"

These are the Top 40 songs as played on Chicago's famous WLS, 890 AM radio station fifty years ago.

(D) refers to a debut song.  The number after the performer is the top position reached on the Billboard national Top 100.

40.  LADY--  Jack Jones (D)  #39    If you like Frank Sinatra, you'll like him.  Had 20 Top 100s 1962-1968. His biggest hit was "Wives and Lovers" (#14-1963).

39.  ONE MORE MOUNTAIN TO CLIMB--  Ronnie Dove (D)  #45  Born in 1940 in Virginia.

38.  CALIFORNIA NIGHTS--  Lesley Gore  (D)  #16  Her last top 40.  Born New York City in 1946.

37.  HIPPY DIPPY WEATHERMAN--  George Carlin  (D)   Did not rank.  Mighty funny guy.

36.  DETROIT CITY--  Tom Jones   (D)  #27   Had 30 Top 100s.  The pride and joy of New South Wales.

Name That Tune (from the above):    "Along The Sand, Let's Walk the Shore Together."  --RoadDog


"California Nights"

Back Home Again

Well, its the weekend, what to do when you're back from the beach.

It's good to be home, even though the weather this past weekend was nowhere near as good as it was when we were gone these past 15 days.  Weather around Spring Grove, Illinois, was in the 60s much of the time.  Not so now/  It it 40s.

FRIDAY, MARCH 3RD

We went to Donovan's Reef in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, and Sunnyside Tap in Johnsburg, Illinois.

SATURDAY, MARCH 4TH

We saw one of our favorite bands, The Three Aces, play at the Fox Lake, Illinois, American Legion from 3-6 p.m..  Sure love these afternoon bands.

SUNDAY, MARCH 5TH

We went to Hickory Lodge in McCullom Lake, Illinois, for their $5 pizza special and $5 pitchers.  Then to Sunnyside.

Bands in the Afternoon.  --RoadDog

YOU'RE DRINKING TOO MUCH COFFEE WHEN:  Instant coffee takes too long.

Recordings Inducted Into the Grammy Hall of Fame: "The Wanderer"

Twenty-five recordings were inducted as the Class of 2017 into the Grammy Hall of Fame on November 29, 2016.

They include"

JAILHOUSE ROCK--  Elvis Presley
I GET AROUND--  Beach Boys
YOU DON'T OWN ME--  Leslie Gore

WAKE UP LITTLE SUSIE--  Everly Brothers
THE WANDERER--  Dion
I GOT YOU BABE--  Sonny & Cher

MAGGIE MAE--  Rod Stewart
THANK YOU FALLETINME BE MICE ELF AGIN--  Sly & the Family Stone
SMOKE ON THE WATER--  Deep Purple

CHANGES--  David Bowie
ABC--  Jackson Five
CITY OF NEW ORLEANS--  Arlo Guthrie

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE THEME--  Lala Schiffrim

There are 1.038 songs in the Grammy Hall of Fame.  All songs inducted into it have to be at least 25 years old.

Name That Tune (from the above): "It's Late September and I Really Should Be Back in School."  --RoadDog


"Maggie Mae"

2017 Movie Scratches: Dog's-- Fences-- Lion-- Space

Movie Scratches--  A Dog's-eye View of the movies showing at theaters.

13.  A DOG'S PURPOSE--  2-2--  Woodstock, $5--  It made you laugh.  It made you cry.  A dog's eye view of reincarnation.

14.  FENCES--  2-7--  Round Lake Beach, $6--  Another Best Picture nominee.  I had earlier thought that "Hidden Figures" should get Best Picture, but not now.  If "La La Land" gets it, I'll join the blacks in their protest.  By far the best movie I've seen in a long while.

15.  LION--  2-8--  Fox Lake, $5--  Another nominee.  A lost Indian child gets lucky, gets adopted by Australian parents and then goes in search of his "lost" family.

16.  THE SPACE BETWEEN US--  2-10--  Fox Lake, $6--  A REAL long-distance love affair.

I Wish It Was Easier to See Movies Getting Nominated for Best Picture.  --RoadDog

YOU'RE DRINKING TOO MUCH COFFEE WHEN: Your life's goal is to "amount to a hill of beans."

Music Deaths: John Wetton Member of Asia

JOHN WETTON, 67.  Died January 31, 2017.

Lead singer of Asia.  Performed with King Crimson in 1972.  Also a member of Roxy Music, Uriah Heep and Wishbone Arkansas.

His group Asia was made up of members of Yes, Buggles and ELP.

"Heat of the Moment" (#4-1982)
"Only Time Will Tell" (#17-1982)
"Don't Cry"  (#10-1983)

Music Deaths: "Joey Powers" and Bobby Freeman

JOSEPH "JOEY POWERS" RUGGIERO, 82

Sang "Midnight Mary" (#10-1964)

ROBERT THOMAS "BOBBY" FREEMAN, 76.  Died January 28, 2017

Wrote and sang "Do You Want to Dance"  (#5-1958)  From San Francisco.  Also sang "Betty Lou Got a New Pair of Shoes"  (#37-1958)  Also had "C'Mon and Swim" (#5-1964) produced by Sly Stone.

Living In Today's World: Nobody Important On THAT Phone

From the January 6, 2017 Family Circus comic strip.

The father has called his son saying he has a phone call.  The little son is walking into the room where his dad is holding the receiver of a landline telephone out to him.  Son:  ""It can't be anybody important if it's on that phone."

Laughed So Hard I Cried.  --RoadDog

WXRT Goes to 1975 for Flashback

Chicago's WXRT is going back to the year 1975 on its Saturday Morning Flashback right now.  The show goes from 8 a.m. to noon, CST.  It also streams at www.wxrt.com.

Take a trip back 42 years with lots of great songs and memories.

So far they have played:

FAME--  David Bowie
LOVE IS A ROSE--  Linda Ronstadt

SLIP KID--  Who
ROCK SHOW--  Paul McCartney

--RoadDog

YOU'RE DRINKING TOO MUCH COFFEE WHEN:  You're so wired, you pick up FM radio all by yourself.

WLS Top Ten for March 3, 1967: ""There's a Kind of a Hush"

1.  I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW--  Tommy James & Shondells
2.  THERE'S A KIND OF A HUSH--  Herman's Hermits
3.  RUBY TUESDAY--  Rolling Stones

4.  HAPPY TOGETHER--  Turtles
5.  THE BEAT GOES ON--  Sonny & Cher
6.  GEORGY GIRL--  Seekers
7.  PUSHIN' TOO HARD--  Seeds

8.  FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH--  Buffalo Springfield
9.  THEN YOU CAN TELL ME GOODBYE--  Casinos
10.  SOCK IT TO ME BABY--  Mitch Ryder

Name That Tune (from the above):  "There's Something Happening Here, What It Is Ain't Exactly Clear." (Answer below) --RoadDog


"For What It's Worth"

Music Deaths: Richie Ingul and Pete "Overend" Watts

RICHIE INGUL  Died January 13, 2017.

One of the vocalists in the Soul Survivors  "Expressway to Your Heart" (#4-1967)


PETE "OVEREND" WATTS, 69.  Died January 22, 2017.

Bassist with Mott the Hoople, glam rock group.  "All the Young Dudes" (#37-1972)  Produced by David Bowie.

Songwriters Hall of Fame Announces 2016 Nominees

P.F. SLOAN & STEVE BARRY: "Eve of Destruction," "A Must to Avoid" and "You Baby."

KENNY NOLAN:  "I Like Dreamin'", "Lady Marmalade" and "My Eyes Adored You."

DAN PENN & SPOONER:  "Cry Like a Baby" and "I'm Your Puppet."

MICKEY STEVENSON:  "Dancin' In the Street," "It Takes Two" and  "Devil With a Blue Dress On."

ALLEE WILLIS:  "September," "Boogie Wonderland" and "Neutron Dance"

OTHER NOMINEES:

Peter Cetera, Robert Lamm and James Pankow of Chicago
David Gates of Bread
Cat Stevens
Jeff Lynne of ELO
Sly Stone
Robert "Kool" Bell, Ronald Bell and George Brown of Kool & the Gang
Madonna
George Michael
Four others

They will be inducted June 2017 in New York City.

--RoadDog

Living In Today's World: Relics From a By-Gone Age

From the January 7, 2017, Dustin comic strip.

1.  Dustin's younger sister is in a calendar store and says to the clerk:  "I'd like to return this calendar I got for Christmas, please."  Clerk replies:  "Of course."

2.  Sister:  "I'll never use it.  Paper calendars are like pencils or stationery.  They're relics from a bygone age."
Clerk:  "We can give you store credit."

3.  Sister:  "What am I going to do with credit at the calendar store?"  Clerk:  "We also sell paper and pencils."

Gotcha.  --RoadDog

YOU'RE DRINKING TOO MUCH COFFEE WHEN:  The Starbucks owns the mortgage to your house.

2017 Movie Scratches: Rogue-- Arrival-- Manchester-- Groundhog

Movie Scratches--  Movies I have seen at the theater in 2017.  A Dog's-eye view.

9.  ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY--  1-26--  Fox Lake, $6--  The kind of movie you really need to see on the big screen twice.  Especially now that I know it is a throw-back story and not the next one in the sequels.

10.  ARRIVAL--  1-31--  Round Lake Beach, $6--  Now I am trying to catch up on all the nominees for Academy Award Best Picture.  I'd only seen one before this.  It's all in the way that you say it.

11.  MANCHESTER  BY THE SEA--  1-31--  Round Lake Beach, $6--  Another Best Picture nominee.  A man battling his own personal demons.  Good movie, but way too much swearing and confusing flashbacks.

12.  GROUNDHOG DAY--  2-2--  Woodstock, Free--  What better way to celebrate Groundhog Day than seeing this movie on the big screen at the theater that appeared in the movie.  And, for FREE!

Catching Up On the Nominees.  --RoadDog

Living In Today's World: About Those Little Gas Company Flags

From the February 9, 2017, Speed Bump comic strip.

Two ladies are standing in a cemetery over a recently dug grave which has small red flags flying all around the edges.  One turns to the other and says:  "He worked his whole life for the gas company."

I wonder who sells those little flags.  They must make a fortune on them.  You see them all over the place.

--RoadDog