Summer Songs...

Did you ever notice how music just feels different in the summertime? As Summer draws to a close,memories made and replayed....

Of picnics, summer camps, vacations, juicy burgers hot off the bbq, or a favorite beverage in a frosty mug.

"Cruisin" with car windows or rag top down, blastin those tunes in Dolby.

Or the beach with the breeze carrying the unmistakable scents of water, sand and sun-tan oil.

Summer songs make seasonal memories, only second to those holiday tunes played over the air as early as October coinciding with stores greedy seasonal hype.

So what's the next anthem for 2009? The Black Eyed Peas, “Boom Boom Pow”; Lady Gaga’s “LoveGame” or Phoenix’s “1901” - grab your car keys. sunglasses, sunscreen and cast your vote.
Then load your I-pod with some of these past Summer "Hit Parade" favorites and reminise.


1964 - "UNDER THE BOARDWALK" - The drifters, The opening line references their prior hit "Up on the Roof", the occasional thermal weakness of a rooftop getaway and sets the stage for an alternate meeting location, under the boardwalk.


1966 - "SUMMER WIND", Frank Sinatra sang one of the greatest summer songs ever recorded backed with Nelson Riddle's big band. Soulfully traces the promise of romance, as elusive as the summer wind.



2007 - ‘EVERYTHING”, Michael Buble makes you want to head out to that old Route 66 highway, drop the top bury the speed limit guage and sing--”You’re a falling star, you’re the get away car, you’re the line in the sand when I go to far, you’re the swimming pool on an August day, and you’re the perfect thing to say.”



1967 - “BROWN EYED GIRL”, Van Morrison with its infectious “Sha la la la la la la la la lal te da” that you sing on you way to the beach.



2004 - “YEAH“, Usher, “Forget about game, I’m a spit the truth” And in truth the song ruled that summer.




1970 - “IN THE SUMMERTIME”, Mungo Jerry. The perfect ‘70 summer tune suited for warm , lazy days even when the actual words were replaced with “dee-dee-dees” and “you can shish right up and touch the sky”.


1972 - “SUMMER BREEZE” - Seals & Crofts. Many endless summers trying to figure out the meaning of “Summer breeze makes me feel fine - Blowing through the jasmine in my mind”. Jasmine in my mind - huh - but it's an unforgettable song.



1966 - “CHERISH”, The Association blaring through my first Zenith transistor radio at 15 minute intervals by every AM radio station in town.





1975 “LOVIN’ YOU” - Minnie Riperton - everyone remembers...“La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la…Ooooooo”.



1977 - “JET AIRLINER” - Steve Miller Band - "sweet old jet air liner carry me on back home" as we sang off-key and mastered both air guitar solos and chug a lugs.


1983 - “THAT SUMMER FEELING” - Jonathan Richman. Kinda makes you look back at past summers when that summer felling arrives each year.













The Sensational Epics who immortalized the sun, sand and "shaggin" theme for decades. The song, "Any Other Way", a top pick and first slot on their CD "Sun, Sand, Surf & Suds Vol 2.

...... to quote two of our own OGR DJ's Glee and JimmyDavis , both members of the The Sensational Epics....
"We may grow old, but will never grow up."

Ciao for Now, Winnie.

Winnie's Top 11 Reasons Why.....

It's Fun to be Female



1. We won't ever have to worry about male-pattern baldness or a toupee.



2. We can manipulate our height with a killer pair of hi-heels.

3. We can banish wrinkles with a handy-dandy concealer.








4. We automatically get 3/4 of the shared closet _NO QUESTIONS ASKED!!















5. No one would ever expect us to mow the lawn in the blazing hot sun or any other time!!!

6. We can remember important dates like birthdays or anniversaries without writing them down.




7. We leave the bug killing to someone else.



8. We can cry our way out of a speeding ticket.





9. We never walk out of the house with tiny pieces of tissue stuck to our face.



10. We are abnormal if we don't own at least 100 pairs of shoes.












11. We get to live with those adorable, balding,

bug-killing,
lawn mowing males

with notes on their hands
and little pieces of tissue stuck to their faces.

This list can go on to infinity. So go ahead, add to it while sipping that cold ice tea or lemonade and enjoying these last days of Summer. Don't forget the SPF 25.

See you on the radio that's OGR!!!!
Ciao for now!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARJOHN!!!!

All of us at OGR wish ARJohn, co-host, of the A&J Show, the best birthday ever. Although the author is unknown for these famous or infamous quotes, somehow they fit ArJohn’s wit and humor.

“It is - What - it is.”

“Growing old is mandatory. Growing Up is optional.”

“Just be happy I’m not a twin.”

“Inside Every Older Person is a Younger Person Wondering What The Hell Happened.”



“Age improves with Wine.”

“I’ll have a caffe mocha vodka valium latte to go.”

“My Indian name is Run with Rum.”
“Time flies when you are having Rum.”

“Sarcasm, just one more service I provide.”

“Equal Opportunity ANNOYER.”

“Never go to Bed Angry, Stay up and Plot your Revenge.”


“I started out with Nothing and I Still have Most of It Left.”




“I am having an OUT-OF-MONEY Experience.”


“Remember, as far as anyone knows, we are a normal family.”

“I’d be a vegetarian if BACON grew on trees.”

Diplomacy: "The art of telling someone to go to hell and having them look forward to the trip."

AND….as ArJohn said many times to ArJane….. “It doesn’t matter where you go in life It ‘s who you have beside you."






And Winnie's favorite: "My Column, My Rules"



Ciao for Now!!!

Ice Cream

“I scream, You scream, we all scream for Ice Cream” heard round the world, July 19, National Ice Cream Day .

In 1984, the month of July was declared National Ice Cream Month by President Ronald Regan. So to the millions of cones, scoops and sundaes we OGR’s have enjoyed, a little tribute to this universal treat….

Americans consume the most in the world -about 15 quarts a year.

Although chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry are the traditional favorite flavors and once enjoyed roughly equal popularity, vanilla is the most popular with chocolate the runner up.

In the Mexican town of Dolores Hidalgo ice cream flavors include beer, cheese, cactus petal, avocado, tequila, corn, black and red mole, pigskin and shrimp.

Haagen-Dazs anything but an exotic Scandinavian recipe.
The Brand name was created by a Polish immigrant, Reuben Mattus and his wife, Rose.
For years they sold ice cream but it never did well till the ‘60’s when they invented the name Haagen-Dazs and put it on a map of Denmark.
The two dots over the “a’ in Haagen bear no such usage in Danish.

Carl's Ice Cream (also known as "Carl's Frozen Custard" is a roadside ice cream stand located at 2200 Princess Anne Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Since 2005, the stand, with its Art Moderne architectural facade, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Carl Sponseller founded it in 1947.
The 1940s era Electro Freeze machines continue to serve the frozen treat.
The ice cream is hand scooped, with a signature “twist” added to the top by the disher.

Evinrude outboard motor was invented due to ice cream.
In 1906 Ole Evinrude fiancé wanted ice cream while they were picnicing on a Wisconsin lake.
He rowed to shore and then realized if he had a motor the trip would be easier and less likely the ice cream would melt.
So the birth of the famous Evinrude!!

Spumoni, or spumone (from spuma "foam"), is a molded Italian ice cream made with layers of different colors and flavors, usually containing candied fruits and nuts.
August 21 is National Spumoni Day in the United States.
November 13th is National Spumoni Day in Canada.

When Jackie Gleason dined he often ordered roast beef with a scoop of ice cream on it.


The ice cream soda, is a float (United States and East Asia),
a spider (Australia and New Zealand)
or a brown cow (Hong Kong).

“Overrun” to ice cream is the amount of air inserted into it during processing. Ice cream would be a solid un-scoop able mass without.
Don’t pay for air, cheaper ice cream is loaded with it.

Before Margaret Thatcher was Britain’s Prime Minister, she was a chemist investigating the air in ice cream and studied methods of ice cream quality by injecting it with air.




President Barack Obama does not like ice cream or sweets.
Perhaps stemming for his teen part-time job at Baskin-Robbins in Hawaii.
But his first date with Michelle, he took her to a Baskin-Robbins
and .....“I asked it I could kiss her.
It tasted of chocolate”

In 1986 when Clint Eastwood ran for mayor of Carmel, Calif., ice cream was a major campaign issue.
It seems town leaders banned the sale of ice cream cones. Eastwood won and it was "bye-bye" to
that ordinance.





See you there. We'll save you a spot. It's our treat......







Winnie and I will never say no to one of these cold ones -




Ciao for now!!!!