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In this endless Pandemic Year of 2020, Traveling Home For Thanksgiving is frowned upon by the authorities.

I HATE Authority, and telling me how many guests I can have? Get the...lol!

I'll start with a very catchy solo single from the former Lead…

It's time for the annual trip Home For Thanksgiving- normally the most heavily traveled time of year in the United States.

Not so this year, NOTHING is normal, and the ever-changing CDC is advising not to travel!

I always look forward to the…

This episode will close out our Songs For Autumn.

There is something about The Fall Season that lends itself to a certain melancholy, a wistfulness, as the days get shorter and the nights colder.

Suggested listening time is a Cold…

Last week it was Fall Colors, this is more of a straight-up Celebration Of Autumn.

I will be playing more topical Songs For Autumn, and even dip into that Great American Songbook.

Leaves are a popular song subject at this time of…

Celebrating the Fall Colors, it is time, after more than 10 years, for the Return Of ROY G BIV!

Any idea who that is?

Well, honestly he is not a person but rather a teaching aid used by the nuns when I was in grammar school.…

To everything there is a Season, and we are comfortably settled in to this Season of Autumn.

It's just past October, so I'll play my favorite End Of October song.

Fall is now tied with Winter as Best Time Of Year for me!…

This is the Final Chapter on Friends, and it will be all about the Song Content, the Lyrics!

Beginning with the worst way to lose a Friend!

It would appear the Main Components of a true Friendship are Trust and Affection.…

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!…