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I continue because You Can't Have Too Many Friends!

So I'll have 2 more Chapters to play what you probably expected me to play a long time ago, lol!

I don't feel like writing, I feel like listening.

As it…

It is Music About and For Friends, those wonderful people you can Count On and Count In!

And it came to mind that Friends don't happen Automatically- nobody says Friends At First Sight like they do Love!

I guess it's possible, but Real Good…

I've been playing Music About and For Friends these past weeks.

And it suddenly came to me I've been doing Radio since August of 1998, I hadn't thought of it with all the 2020 distractions.

So You And Me Go Way Back, We've Been Together Since Way…

Well in this Friend Series it's time we looked at Best Friends.

The Closest and Dearest of Friends, irreplaceable!

I'll start with some not terribly important confusion about a TV Show, The Courtship Of Eddie's Father.…

With all we have had to go through this year, in Times Like These it's good to have a Friend!

And that is how Week 2 will open.

If there is a Sub-Theme it would be Wanting To Make Friends.

But you don't…

The TV show Friends didn't inspire this Series, but I can hardly ignore it, it ran on NBC for 10 years and is still wildly popular with a loyal following.

I watched it occasionally and can name the characters at least, lol!

Those characters on…

Never have Friends been more needed than in this damnable year, and never has meeting up with them been more discouraged!

The world is Inside-Out and Upside-Down!

Here is the Maiden Voyage of a Series I've been thinking about doing for a very…

1. Avast Ye Mateys!
   
   We’ll ride with The Boatman, Take A Night Sail and Come In With The Ship.
   
   Meaning it’s time for the End Of The End Of Summer Cruise and a Return To Harbor!

   
   And I’ll finish the…

It is just Barely Autumn, still warm enough for the End Of Summer Cruise to continue.

Weather is no respecter of Calendars!

This Episode we’ll right away Build A Boat.

And then let’s Musically wonder what…

Well we got our feet wet in that first half.

Now we’ll need Sailors for this End Of Summer Cruise.?

Any volunteers??

A good short set about Sailing to open, followed by probably the cheapest way to Ride…

It was a very hot Summer this year, hitting the 90’s far to often for me.

Add in the humidity and I want out!

It’s always cooler by the Water, so I invite you on an End Of Summer Cruise, using Music as our proxy means of Travel.
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I will continue this final Free Form Chapter with a longing for the days before the Pandemic Lockdowns.

Some of the Regulations make sense, many others are just damn silly.

The contradictory statements from the government and others just further…

Once again, I was going to go Free Form, just play Songs with no Theme!

I sat down and thought I'd ask How Do You Feel?

And right away the events of these past months came to mind, and I felt a Developing Situation, lol!…

Continuing with The Originals and Covers show, and in this 2nd Half I was still thinking in Threes!

During the break I thought of a 3rd version of the Song I closed the First Half with.


I’ll have an Original that Elvis desperately wanted to…

It’s been a long time since I did any of The Originals – this is Volume 3- Songs we know very well, Originally done by other solo artists or groups.

I'll begin with the Rolling Stones- it’s so well known by them it might be considered the Original.…

Let's talk about those of us who avail ourselves of the Time-Honored Tradition of playing the angles at Work!

Something learned over time at all Jobs- how to slack off and skate a little.

Be Lazy when the opportunity presents…

Labor Day has come and gone, but I still have songs to play.

Tightly wound Cranky Times call for Cranky Music.

So Music for people and their driven pursuit of Money.

Some people are defined by the Money…

The first song here may not be strenuous Work, but may be more difficult than that.

And that made me think of some Hard Jobs- Jobs Nobody Wants To Do, The Dirty Work!

I think laying track for the Railroad qualifies as Hard Work.…

September is upon us, and it will be noted in a famous yet very serious tune that is much more than about a month.

After that, Work...that necessary evil!

A lot of real GOOD songs remained unplayed, still sitting in their neat little pile, from…

This is it, the Grand Finale to what has been one of the longest Theme Series I've ever done.

I will start with a song I was holding back because the people populating it don't seem all that  happy, it's Marriage by resignation.

But with a quick…