Feeling Fine in 1969

It was springtime on the old Willow Valley farm. The Willow creek was rising, and little Phil was moving outside on his Huffy bike wearing his husky jeans. He would ride around the chicken coop, around the old barn, and out to the tractor shed. Dad would be greasing the spring tillage equipment and getting set to plow the fields for oat planting. While dad was working hard for the spring season, little Phil was working on putting more cards in the spokes of his bike. He could make some radical jumps using silo boards. Pretending to be Evel Knievel was a common thing for young boys growing up in the 60’s and 70’s. We would watch him jump buses on the Wild World of Sports Saturday afternoons. Later I would put out several Hot Wheels cars and try to jump over them without crushing them. My G.I. Joe doll (actually a Fighting Yank Sears rip off bought at a garage sale) became a daredevil too. He would attempt to jump off our 30 foot silo using a sandwich baggie as a parachute. The poor yank hit the ground hard, however, had a soft landing in a cow pie from time to time.

This week on WRCO’s Those Were the Days, I will be spinning the soundtrack from the spring of 1969. There are so many winners on this week’s chart. We could easily do a 6 hour show just featuring those tunes. Our friend Tommy Roe was number one with Dizzy. Other favorites include Time of the Season-Zombies, Proud Mary-CCR, Build Me Up Buttercup-Foundations, Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show-Neil Diamond, Everyday People-Family Stone, and Things I’d Like to Say-New Colony Six.

I hope you will join me for Saturday radio follies between six and midnight. You can help program the show. There are many tunes to consider requesting which came out between 1954 and 1994! Give us a call or text. The trivia games are heard each hour. Listen for the ‘magic cowbell’. That is when you know it’s time to play. Please be careful if you are doing some cool jumps on your bike this weekend and make sure you tune in WRCO FM 100.9, WRCO.com or listen on the Civic Media app to Those Were the Days Saturday night.

Phil