Saturday, January 21, 2006

R.I.P. THE "WICKED" PICKETT
CLICK ON "PLAY" TO SEE A WONDERFUL TRIBUTE TO AUTAUGA COUNTY'S OWN WILSON PICKETT http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10929971/

http://www.popsiephotos.com/rock1.htm
THE WICKED WILSON PICKETT & JIMI HENDRIX

On March 18, 1941, THE WICKED PICKETT was born in Prattville. He was brought up in Prattville until about 1955 when his family moved to Detroit so next time you hear "In The Midnight Hour" or "Mustang Sally", please remember that the roots of that music run deep in Autauga County.
from http://atlasofalabama.blogspot.com

HEY YA'LL:
Thursday morning I went down to Rammer Jammers, a cafe next to Bryant-Denny Stadium, to have my favorite breakfast in the entire world, Gary's three egg All-American Omelet with ham, sausage, bacon, peppers, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes and cheese inside and out.

As I relished my one meal for the entire day, I saw the headline on Cal Thomas's editorial in the T. News: RECONCILIATION, NOT REVENGE, SOLVES ISSUES

After reading one sentence I knew that the major motion picture that Cal was describing was based upon the life of the mother of one my Ecuadorian friends, Sam Padilla.

The movie is called END OF THE SPEAR http://endofthespear.com
and I was right: it is about Sam's mother. Back again to the old adage "Be careful what you wish for"... As all of you know, I gripe and gripe about Hollywood not giving attention to my pet projects. Well now they have. I haven't seen the film but I got the impression that the dream merchants have "produced a monster even its creator could not control."

I'm not going to pass judgement right now but I do want to tell you the story of how I met Sam Padilla.

Sam was one of the pioneers of "ethnic tourism" in Ecuador. Seeing as how his headhunting uncles had murdered 5 missionaries in January of 1956, Sam was uniquely qualified to introduce curious gringos to head shrinking.

In 1984, I returned to Ecuador after a ten year absence in order to attend the inauguration of their first and probably only pro-Republican President. While in Quito, I attended a book fair sponsored by the Russian Embassy. Among the tons of Marx, Lenin, Che, Mao and Fidel propaganda, I found a beautiful book published in Barcelona entitled MAGIA EN LAS AMERICAS. In the book the author takes you on a tour of voodoo, zombies, psychic surgery, Santeria, witch doctors, drug cults, etc. etc. He concluded that the strangest thing he saw in all of his travels was the family of Sam Padilla.

About a year later I returned to Quito and was sitting in a German bar. At the end of the bar sat Sam Padilla, the headhunter. Not being shy, I approached him and said in my best Spanish,"Perdon, senor, conoce el libro MAGIA EN LAS AMERICAS?"

Sam replied in perfect English with a hint of a Southern accent,"I'd feel a lot more comfortable speaking English." Thus began a three year relationship with one of the most extraordinary men I have ever met.

Here's the type of conversation I'd have with Sam.
"Sam, this is the wierdest shit I have ever heard of in my life. Ya'll take the ayahuasca, bang on the drum and sing. The Jaguar God comes out of the bushes, sniffs on everybody like an old dog and then you all SEE THE SAME FUCKING THING!"

Sam replied," What's so strange about that? How else would we agree on anything?"

Thank goodness for the miracle of the Internet! I contacted Fran Karttunen whose book BETWEEN WORLDS details the story of Sam and his mother Dayuma. What follows is her reply to me.

To give you an idea of the zombie state of the typical professor and student in the modern university, Fran's book has been sitting on the University of Alabama shelf since it was purchased in 1994. Until tonight, this book which details the lives of about a dozen of the most important interpreters who ever lived, had been checked out once and returned two weeks early. Not only is there a chapter on Sam's mother entitled RAIN FOREST WOMAN: DAYUMA but there is also a chapter entitled OVER THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE: SACAJAWEA. Ironically, the actess who plays Dayuma in the movie also played Sacajawea in a PBS program on Lewis & Clark.

Type Dayuma into Google and you get 646 hits which go all the way back to 1956. Now she has been discovered by Hollywood.
Can't wait to see the movie.
best,
reg


Subject:
Re: Found You While Googling "Sam Padilla" and "Dayuma"
Date:
Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:56:20 -0500
To:
"robert register"

I'm sorry to say that I don't have anything recent. When my book was
published in 1994, Dayuma was still liiving. I was prepared to have
continuing contact with/about people who had helped me with the book,
but it didn't happen. I was a bit surprised, but eventually I moved on
to a project in another part of the world. That project took five years
to complete, during which time I myself became a bit inaccessible.
If you haven't seen it, Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and
Survivors is still available. I think Amazon.com is offering it, and
it can be borrowed through interlibrary loan. There's a beautiful
photo of Dayuma in the book, one that hadn't been published before, as
far as I know.
Fran Karttunen

On Jan 21, 2006, at 4:28 AM, robert register wrote:
> I found out about this END OF THE SPEAR movie last week and started
> searching the Net for information on my old buddy Sam Padilla. I
> haven't seen him since 1987 and I was wondering if you knew anything.
> best,
> Robert Register http://robertoreg.blogspot.com/
> http://www.endofthespear.com/


RECENT 2006 FLOWER POWER ANNIVERSARIES
Ca. 13-18 January 1966 Kesey Sentenced. More Info
Ken Kesey is sentenced for his conviction in the April 1965 arrest case for possession of marijuana, receiving a six-month jail sentence and three years of probation.

Jan 19, 1966 (Wednesday) Ken Kesey Busted.Ken Kesey is arrested in San Francisco a second time for the possession of marijuana. He subsequently jumps bail and flees to Mexico, trying to mislead law enforcement authorities with a faked suicide note.

21-23 January 1966 Acid Test and Trips Festival.The seventh (?) Acid Test was held at the Trips Festival (Friday through Sunday) which took place in the Longshoremen's Hall, San Francisco. The Festival was a joint effort of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, Stewart Brand (who showed his "America Needs Indians" slide show during it), and Bill Graham (who handled the business arrangements). Augustus Owsley Stanley III was a financial sponsor of the event: He purchased amplifiers and other electronic equipment for the Grateful Dead to use in playing there (and thereafter) and also donated LSD which he had manufactured for free ditribution at the event.
Reference/Source: (Charles Perry, The Haight Ashbury: A History (New York: Random House/Rolling Stone Books, 1984), 44-45. Lou Gottlieb, a former member of the folk group, The Limelighters, and future founder of the Sonoma County commune, Morningstar Ranch, in his regular folk music column for the San Francisco Chronicle (Tue. 18 January 1966), promoted the upcoming Trips Festival as being "of major significance in the history of religion.")Jan 29, 1966 (Saturday) Acid Test.The eighth (?) Acid Test was held at the Sound City Studios in San Francisco.

February 1966 Bill Graham changes careers.Bill Graham resigns as business manager of the San Francisco Mime Troupe in order to devote himself full-time to the business of acid rock concert promotion, initially at the Fillmore Auditorium.

Feb 06, 1966 (Sunday) Acid Test.The ninth (?) Acid Test was held in Los Angeles (and called the "Sunset [Blvd.] Acid Test"?). It featured the Grateful Dead.

Feb 12, 1966 (Saturday) Acid Test.The tenth (?) Acid Test was held at the Youth Opportunities Center in Compton, CA., which is on the fringes of Los Angeles' Watts ghetto. Some 200 people attended.

Mar 01, 1966 (Tuesday) Kesey Sighting.Herb Caen reported that Ken Kesey is in Mexico, but "he'll be back."



Karttunen, Frances. Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors. Rutgers University Press, 1994. 360 pp. $24.95. [Analytic biographical studies of 16 men and women who served as cultural mediators and indespensible go-betweens— “uncomfortable bridges” is K.’s phrase — between various indigenous (mostly American Indian) peoples and the Europeans (and Euro-Americans) who invaded their world during the past 500 years.— The American Indian figures include: Doña Marina (La Malinche), who interpreted for Cortés; Sacajawea, who accompanied Lewis and Clark; Sarah Winnemucca, a Northern Paiute scout for the U.S Army; Gaspar Antonio Chi, the Interpreter General for Yucatan; Guaman Pomo de Ayala, who witnessed the destruction of his Inca culture; Charles Eastman, a Sioux physician; Doña Luz Jimenez, Diego Rivera’s model and native informant to anthropologists; María Sabina, a Mazatec shaman who became a celebrity in the drug culture of the 1960s; Ishi, the last survivor of the Yahis; and Dayuma, a Wao (Huaorani) interpreter in 20th century Ecuador. Others are Eva (Khoikhoi, Cape of Good Hope); Dersu Uzala (Nanai/Goldi, Ussuria); Chloe Grant and George Watson (Australia); Laurinda Andrade (Azores); and Larin Paraske, an informant for Finnish ethnographers. The lives of many other incidental people are woven in: Elaine Goodale (wife of Charles Eastman); Sara (another Khoi-khoi woman); R. Gordon Wasson, the self-styled ethnomycologist, and his wife Valentina Pavlovna; and the many children of the interpreters, guides, and native informants. — This is a book for every anthropologist and linguist who has ever reflected on the role of the “informant.” K.’s approach is not merely biographical — she raises many broad issues — but the historical particularity with which she writes gives her analysis conviction and authority.

KATRINA IN THE NEWS
Get a copy of this January's issue of BUILDER, the magazine of the National Association of Home Builders http://www.builderonline.com/
and read "Bailing Out" by John Caulfield. It is a very practical examination of the situation we are facing. Caulfield quotes John Saint of Mobile, CEO of The Mitchell Co.http://www.mitchellhomes.com/ :

"The government doesn't work like you and me," Saint, who barely contained his enmity toward bureaucrats who " have not done a good job. There are still people sleeping in tents, and if it weren't for the churches, private businesses, and neighbors, people would have starved to death."

Also check out an article in the March issue of CONCRETEHOMES http://concretehomesmagazine.com/ entitled BUILDING IN THE FACE OF HURRICANES.

BUDDY BUIE:MUSIC OF MY LIFE, part II

I met rock and roll empresario Bill Graham in San Francisco when the band was playing some of his venues. I was thrilled when he recorded and produced Carlos Santanahttp://www.santana.com/ and his band on "Stormy."

http://bgp.com/venue.html?venue_id=1198


http://www.orbison.com


As I said on the first CD, Roy Orbison was one of my true heroes. I heard him perform countless times. I'd stand listening to him sing from the wings of the stage and there was never a night that the hair didn't stand up on my arms. He was phenomenal. You can imagine how excited Bill Gilmore http://crystalhorizon.com/Classics_IV/gilmore_tribute.htm, John Rainey Adkins and I were when he recorded our song "Afraid To Sleep". It's a... In my book, in my repetoire, it was one of my finest hours even though it wasn't a big hit.


photo courtesy of http://paulcochran.com
l.to r.:Alan Diggs, Chris Demarco, Bill Gilmore, Paul Cochran, Dennis Yost, Buddy Buie


AFRAID TO SLEEP
The night is still
The wind is chill
I hear the rain
Falling on my window pane
Can't close my eyes
Afraid to sleep
Cause when I do
I only dream of you
I'm trying to forget
We ever met
But how can I forget
And dream of you

Afraid to sleep
Because I'll dream of you
Afraid to sleep
Because I'll wake up feeling blue

If I stay awake forever
We'll never be together
So I'll close my eyes
Go ahead and dream
Sweet dreams
Sweet dreams
Sweet dreams


In 1999, Bill Lowery http://www.talkaboutaudio.com/group/rec.audio.pro/messages/1041590.html and I sold Lowsal Music, a publishing company we'd been building for over 30 years. For the next three years, J.R. and I were exclusive writers for SONY. We teamed up with Tom Douglas http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2822/is_1_28/ai_n9507895 , one of their big writers and wrote a song called "Mr. Midnight".

We were in Nashville, J.R. and I were, and the head of creative services called and said,"Hey, Garth http://www.garthbrooks.com/ is gonna cut your song but he wants you to come over to the studio."

We went over to the studio and he made some major changes to the song, showed it to us and said,"Hey guys, here's the way I want to do it."

And we said, "HEY, ROCK ON!!!!"

It was... He did a nice job on our song and he's such a nice guy to be such a superstar. Here is "Mr. Midnight".

MR. MIDNIGHT
Rain on the room and time on my hands
It sure seemed quiet out there in radio land
They call me at the all-night station
Make their special dedications
And I do my best to play their request
When it's a desperate situation
This was a desperate situation

I'm Mr. Midnight alone and blue
The brokenhearted call me up
When they don't know what else to do
Every song is a reminder of the love that they once knew
I'm Mr. Midnight,
can I play a song for you

"Caller on the line could you please hold on?"
I recognized her voice the minute i picked up the phone
Should I tell her that it's me or leave it at a memory
Haven't been myself since the day she left
And I'm never gonna be
I'm forever gonna be

I'm Mr. Midnight alone and blue
The brokenhearted call me up
When they don't know what else to do
Every song is a reminder of the love that they once knew
I'm Mr. Midnight, can I play a song for you

Imagine my surprise when she spoke my name
She said, "Could you tell him that I love him
and I wish things could be the same."
Then a voice I never knew
Said, "Honey who you talking to?"

I'm Mr. Midnight alone and blue
The brokenhearted call me up
When they don't know what else to do
Every song is a reminder of the love that they once knew
I'm Mr. Midnight, can I play a song for you


Here is Gloria Estafan's http://www.gloriaestefan.com/ version of "Traces"

Travis Tritt http://www.travistritt.com/ was an Atlanta boy. He grew up listening to our music. When he became a big star, he recorded two of those songs. Here's his versions of "Homesick" and "Back Up Against The Wall".

BACK UP AGAINST THE WALL
(J.R. Cobb/Buddy Buie)
I was dealin' up and down the highway
Till they caught me with a heavy load
They sentenced me to hard labor
Workin' on the side of the road
Now I don't deny I was guilty
And I know I broke the law
I was hungry and broke and couldn't see no hope
And my back was up against the wall
Now I'm right outside your window
Honey open up and let me in
I broke out of jail this mornin'
And I ain't never goin' back again
I just had to stop by for a minute
And I can't stay long at all
'Cause I gotta run you see
I'm under the gun
And my back is up against the wall
I was shackled to a three-time loser
A man named Jefferson
One night we got to talkin'
And I asked him what he'd done
He said a man fell over my razor
In the middle of a barroom brawl
But don't you see it was him or me
And my back was up against the wall

Now I'm right outside your window
Honey open up and let me in
I broke out of jail this mornin'
And I ain't never goin' back again
I just had to stop by for a minute
And I can't stay long at all
'Cause I gotta run you see
I'm under the gun
And my back is up against the wall

Now I'm right outside your window
Honey open up and let me in
I broke out of jail this mornin'
And I ain't never goin' back again
I just had to stop by for a minute
And I can't stay long at all
'Cause I gotta run you see
I'm under the gun
And my back is up against the wall
I gotta run you see
I'm under the gun
And my back is up against the wall
Yeah I gotta run you see
I'm under the gun
And my back is up against the wall



"Spooky" 's been a hit now three times. First by the Classics, then by ARS and most recently by David Sanborn http://www.david-sanborn.com/ .
His instrumental went to #1 on the jazz charts. Boy, does he play!
Here's David Sanborn's version of "Spooky".

When you think of Herb Alpert, you usually think of Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
http://www.herbalpert.com/ and the great instrumentals they've cut over the years. J.R. and I wrote a song along with Doug Lee called "Save The Sunlight".

Herb heard it. Our publisher played it for him in California and he and his wife were very involved in the ecological movement so the two of them sang this song. Here is Herb Alpert and his wife singing "Save The Sunlight".

SAVE THE SUNLIGHT

Doesn't it make you feel like
Trying to save the sunlight
Surely you feel the way we do
They're not gonna last forever
Blue skies and sunny weather
The problem is up to me and you
We shouldn't be so careless
Think of the things we cherish
Think of them all gone away

And doesn't it make you feel like
Trying to save the sunlight
Doesn't it make you stop and think

Picture without a warning
Rain on a Sunday morning
Think of the way it brings you down
Then think of a rainbow shining
Someone who loves you smiling
Happy the sun came back around

Doesn't that make you feel like
Trying to save the sunlight
Doesn't it make you stop and think

Tommy Roe http://www.classicbands.com/roe.html was a popstar in the Sixties. He had songs like "Shiela" and "Sweet Pea". I'd signed a deal with United Artists Publishing and I heard Tommy Roe was recording in Muscle Shoals so I drove there, tried to get into the studio, the session, but they told me it was a closed session so I stayed in the parking lot until Tommy and his producer, Felton Jarvis http://www.elvis-collectors.com/strictly01.html , came out of the door. When they did, I accosted them and said,"Guys, I gotta play you a song!"

And they didn't call the cops, thank goodness. My persistence paid off. They recorded the song. Here's the song Bill Gilmore and I wrote. The song is called "Party Girl".

PARTY GIRL

Dance your last, Dance your last,
(Party Girl) Dance your last dance,Dance your last dance,
Party Girl, Party Girl,
Have yourself a time Party Girl.
Because when this party's through
I'm gonin' come to you.
Party Girl, Party Girl.
I realize there's fifty guys,
That you put on a string.
But I'm goin' change all that,
When I show you this diamond ring.
You'll forget that swinging band,
When you hear them choir boys sing.
You're going to trade your dancin' shoes,
For apron strings and things.

So little girl,Dance your last dance,
Party Girl, Party Girl,
Have yourself a time Party Girl
.Because when this party's through I'm goin' marry you.
So just dance your last dance,Party Girl.

Party Girl you laugh and say that love is just a game.
But like they say in story books,Tigers can be tamed.
Won't you be surprised, When you take a second look.
Instead of doing the Jerk,You'll be learning how to cook.
So little girl,Dance your last dance,Party Girl, Party Girl,
Have yourself a time Party Girl.
Because when this party's through I'm could come to you.
So just dance your last dance,Party Girl.
So just dance your last dance,Party Girl.
So just dance your last dance,Party Girl.


Dothan, Alabama's original rock band was The Webs. They were John Rainey Adkins, Bobby Goldsboro http://www.bobbygoldsboro.com/ , Amos Tindall and Dave Robinson.


photo courtesy of http://www.heybabydays.com
The Webs
top to bottom: John Rainey Adkins, Bobby Goldsboro, Amos Tindall, Dave Robinson

THE WEBS: The Roots of Dothan Rock 'N Roll
THANK YOU JIMMY DEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LEFT TO RIGHT: DAVE ROBINSON, AMOS TINDALL, BOBBY GOLDSBORO, JOHN RAINEY ADKINS, GERALD HALL

When the band and I left to go on the road with Roy Orbison, Paul Garrison replaced Amos Tindall. Later Bobby Goldsboro left to pursue his own career and was replaced by Rodney Justo. Slowly but surely they became THE CANDYMEN.


November 1964 photos of Roy Orbison and THE CANDYMEN courtesy of http://www.jlindquist.com/rockit.html

THE CANDYMEN traveled all over the world with Roy Orbison. Once while they were in England, Graham Nash flipped over the band, took them into the studio where the Beatles recorded and cut a song John Rainey Adkins and I wrote called "Hope". We had earlier recorded that song in Atlanta.

The band later left Orbison to start their own career. I produced THE CANDYMEN and wrote quite a few of their songs. They were a great band. When they went to New York to play at THE SCENE, the club there, they were heralded in the local press, actually in the national press.

Later THE CANDYMEN evolved into The Atlanta Rhythm Section so it's quite an unusual story to see a group that starts one way end up another way. Here is "Hope" by THE CANDYMEN.

HOPE


Memories
Running through my head
going round and
Coming back again
Same old circle
Work, play, live my life away

I hope
You're coming back some day
I hope
that you have changed your ways
I hope tomorrow won't be like today
This I must confess
Life is nothing more and nothing less than hope

Words of love
Ringing in my ear
shut them out and they just reappear
same old circle
wake sleep try my sense to keep
{repeat chorus]
Then I read that old love letter that you wrote
And a lump began to rise up in my throat.
seeing all the promises you said
once again I lost my head {repeat chorus}


The next three songs are some of my favorite Rhythm Section cuts. In 1978, 50,000 people packed into Grant Field to see the band perform. The concert is called "Champagne Jam" as was their most successful album.


Combined with their command performance at the White House for Jimmy Carter, these were high flying times for the boys from Doraville and me. "Champagne Jam" was written by Robert Nix, J.R. and me.

Blakeley's Robert Nix from his days with THE CANDYMEN


In 1974, Robert Nix, Dean Daughtry and I wrote a song called "Dog Days". We wrote that song and many others in a single wide trailer on Lake Eufaula, Alabama. The trailer only had a window air conditioner unit and it was too loud to let it run while we were writing. Sweat would roll down our faces and truly gave us inspiration for "Dog Days".

In the second verse, we mention White Oak Creek that is only a short distance from Thomas Mill Creek where I now live.

Last but not least is "Georgia Rhythm", a Buie, Cobb, Nix composition which was also a concert crowd pleaser.

CHAMPAGNE JAM
C'mon mama, give me a break
Me and the boys are gonna stay out late
I can't help it, its in my bones
We'll be jammin' all night long
Gonna play up a storm, ooh yeah sure am
We're gonna have us a champagne jam
We're gonna have us a champagne jam
ooh hooBreak out the guitars and let's play some blues
Don't want no whiskey, gimme some high-class booze
Some cham-champagne, thank you ma'am
We're gonna have us a champagne jam
We're gonna have us a champagne jam, yeah
[C'mon] let's have us some first class fun
[C'mon] everybody gonna play some[12 bar instrumental]
Let's raise a ruckus - let's tie one on
Break out a bottle of Dom Perignon
If they throw us in jail we don't give a damn
We're gonna have us a champagne jam
[Want some] champagne, thank you ma'am
[Thank you ma'am]We're gonna have us a champagne jam
We're gonna have us a champagne jam,
y'yeah, y'yeahSo c'mon, woo hoo hoo[22 bar instrumental]
We're jammin'[32 bar instrumental]
What you say, what you say - oh yeah
Thank you ma'am

DOG DAYS
Paper bags and sweaty hands
Shooing flies away
Reflections on a porch
A shelter from the scorch
When Dog Days came around
Baby squals
As August crawls
Past old folks in the shade
The weather vane would stop
and White Oak Creek would drop
When Dog Days came around

The Dog Days were scorchers
Southern tortures
But we found an answer to the plight
It was the Dog Day's night

Evening brings a front porch scene
A time to rest your bones
And pray you won't be here
This time next year
When the Dog Days come along

Those old Dog Days, oh yeah

GEORGIA RHYTHM
Living out of a suitcase
Sleeping in hotel rooms
Rent-a-cars and airport bars
And Dog Day afternoons

My occupation is a picker and music is my game
Sometimes it makes me crazy
But I would not change a thing

So lay down a backbeat
Crank up your trusty Gibson
Let's give it everything we got
Just one more time
Living the life we're living
Playing the Georgia rhythm
Nothing else even made me feel this fine

4 o'clock in the morning
Waiting for a plane
We passed around a bottle, Lord,
And we don't feel no pain
Life out here on the highway
Has its ups and downs
But last night the Georgia rhythm
Tore up another town

Laughing above the madness
Forward bound again
To normal ways and raising days
And old familiar friends
Some conversation with my lady
Some love long overdue
God knows I hate to leave her
But I got a job to do


I've been blessed with great partners at different periods of my life: Paul Cochran, Arlie Geller and Bill Lowery but my most important partner is my wife, Gloria, not just because she's been my wife for 33 years but because she was involved in every endeavor along the way. She handles the business end when I'm off being creative and crazy. She runs the office. She has a degree in Economics; is an astute business woman. I'd be lost without her.

The next two songs I didn't write but I was involved with. The first is "Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy" by the Tams, written by J.R. Cobb and Ray Whitley. We published the song.

"Cherry Hill Park" was written by Robert Nix and Bill Gilmore. It was recorded by the great Billy Joe Royal and we published it and I produced it. Here's those songs.

BE YOUNG, BE FOOLISH, BE HAPPY
Be young, be foolish, but be happy
Be young, be foolish, but be happy
Don`t let the rain get you down it`s a waste of time
Have your fun, live every day in the bright sunshine
It`s the same old story all over the world
Girl needs boy and boy needs girl
So be young, be foolish, but be happy
Be young, be foolish, but be happy
Don`t let love slip away
Live your life for today
Life is too short to worry about unimportant things
Reach for the sky and touch a star, and then you`ll find you dream
Because dreaming alone is a shame indeed
But if you`ve got love, that`s all you`ll need
So be young, be foolish, girl be happy
Be young, be foolish, girl be happy
Log on
Be young, be foolish, girl be happy

CHERRY HILL PARK
R. Nix/B. Gilmore)
Mary Hill used to hang out in Cherry Hill Park
The games she played lasted all day till way after dark
All the girls they criticized her
But all the guys just idolized her
'Cause Mary Hill was such a thrill after dark
In Cherry Hill Park
Mary Hill loved to ride the merry-go-round
All the guys got eager eyes watchin' Mary go round
In the daytime Mary Hill was a teaser
Come the night she was such a pleaser
Oh Mary Hill was such a thrill after dark
In Cherry Hill Park

CHORUS: Mary Hill sure was fun down in Cherry Hill Park
Playing games with everyone till way after dark
In Cherry Hill Park, Cherry Hill Park

Then one day, Mary Hill, she married away
A man with some money said "Come on, honey" & she said okay
She went away to play a one man game & since that day it ain't been the same
'Cause Mary Hill was such a thrill after dark
Yeah in Cherry Hill Park
(chorus)
(repeat & fade): In Cherry Hill Park (Cherry Hill Park)


The next songs were on B.G.O. Records, a record label owned by Arlie Geller and me. "Pac Man Fever" was inspired by the famous arcade game and was recorded by Buckner and Garcia.

"I Love The Nightlife" was recorded by Alecia Bridges and was a gigantic hit. Here they are.

PAC-MAN FEVER

I LOVE THE NIGHTLIFE


O.K., friends and family, that's it. That's what I've been doing for the past thirty of forty years, who's counting?!!!

I've enjoyed putting this together. I've written over 350 songs but these are the most notable.

No Mother, I'm not gonna get a real job!