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ROCKOLLECTIONS: SALUTE TO MOTHERS PT.1

As you should know, this Sunday is Mothers Day.
So what is called for is a Rockollections Salute To Mothers, Mamas, Moms & Mas.
After a previously unreleased opening rocker, we will get into it with a first set that is intended to touch your loving heart for Mom.
Then a musical look at a necessary requirement for being a Mother…you need to Have A Baby!
Interspersed throughout will be some wonderful quotes about Mothers I have picked out to share with you.
I’ll be doing my usual travel all over the musical map to celebrate the Sweetest & Best Ladies we’ll ever know.
In short, if you like my Theme shows, you’ll enjoy this.

Mike

Tags: Have A Baby, Mamas, Mas, Moms, Mothers Day, Sweetest & Best Ladies, The Musical Map, Theme Shows

ROCKOLLECTIONS: IT’S BLOOMING TIME PT.2

As we will throughout this series, I will flip Gardens and Flowers, so a couple of rockers about Flowers open this installment.
First one, Picking Wild Flowers- and anything wild is good!
The next one by the Talking Heads contained the Crossed F incident.
Although I am one of the most disorganized people I know, I can also be very picayune about certain things.
This I have always regarded as just a minor facet of my insanity, not a problem.
So upon realizing on my handwritten list of songs that I had not crossed the F in Flowers, thereby making it Tlowers, I rushed out to tell Engineer Ken.
Ken, the poor soul, thought something had gone terribly wrong, lol!
But that was enough to throw me into an embarrassed lather.
Taking a quick sedative, I was able to continue, lol!
Got a song for Mothers Day that fits our flora requirement- from a couple of tough dudes, Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings.
Returning to the subject of Gardens, there are lots of different kinds of Gardens.
I will open a set with a song that is NOT one of them (HUH?)!
But I later erroneously identified the singer as Loretta Lynn, and I should have said Lynn Anderson.
I always confuse the two…wonder why, lol?
Finally, we end this chapter with something we have known we have to do for decades- get back there to that Garden.
A very Happy Mothers Day to all those still with us, and loving remembrances to those who are not.
If you still have Mom, realize you are lucky, treasure the moments and tell her you love her!

Mike

Tags: Engineer Ken, Flowers, Gardens, Johnny Cash, Lynn Anderson, Mothers Day, Picking Wild Flowers, Talking Heads, The Crossed F Incident, Waylon Jennings

ROCKOLLECTIONS: THE SOUTHSIDE OF ASBURY PT.2 END

First off, I just want to say that if I had access to the studio, I would have done one or more shows on Mothers this year.
I did a couple of them a few years ago, and if you do a Search or scroll Previous Posts here, you will find them.
A few more words about the Schaefer Festival Concerts, where I spent many a joyous summer night.
They were held at the Wollman Skating Rink, which was and still is, an outdoor ice skating rink in New York’s famous Central Park.
Since it is outdoors, obviously no skating in the summertime, and so folding chairs were put all around where the ice had been.
A wonderful, intimate setting to see some surprisingly big time artists!
Back to this found show on Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, a live song to open this chapter up, where Ronnie Spector formerly of the Ronettes made a guest appearance to duet with Johnny.
Sounding so right, and with that same distinctive voice!
Think I heard myself singing in the crowd on some of these songs.
Hey, you never know, lol!
We’ll hear what is considered the definitive version of Bruce Springsteen’s Hearts Of Stone, and a whole lot more.
Complete with a thoroughly fitting song to end with.
Happy Mothers Day to all who qualify!
Love ya Mom!

Mike

Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Central Park, Hearts Of Stone, Mothers Day, Ronettes, ronnie Spector, Schaefer Festival Concerts, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Wollman Skating Rink