03/20/2024
These days, a couple weeks before my 69th birthday, I host a morning radio program called “Do You Remember” (woonsocketradio.com). it’s a reason to get up in the morning when I don’t have any Real Estate business to tend to. The program started out as a “remember this place or that place etc. etc. but that ran out its course, so it defaulted into more music related trivia. To start the program one of my co-hosts will pick a subject and we will both pick a song, and callers will vote on which one they like best. Hopefully and usually some memories will be generated and related. My Era is the late fifties thru the
sixties and early seventies. The real special songs are those that recall a memory of my brother Tom. It was, I believe, 1968?, when Tom was in the Navy and had entrusted me to start his Honda motorcycle every week which I did faithfully. Next to the bike which was in our basement, he had a footlocker, and in the footlocker was amongst other things was a Hullabaloo magazine. It featured a group called the “We Five” and another one called “Every Mothers Son” with their songs “You Were On My Mind” and “Come On Down To My Boat Baby” respectively. When I hear these songs I am instantly transported to those days. They were days without my brother, days where my only connection was that Honda, a teen magazine and a couple songs. Those things would have to last until he came home. They were his things, important things to him, so he had to come home from Viet Nam. He had to.
