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SONGS OF NAMING THE CAT

MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS Tammy – This song was playing when I
brought a cat home from school. We named
I simply can’t imagine a world without music. Since my earliest memories of her Tammy.
The Hokey Pokey in kindergarten, certain songs have defined special times.
When I hear the theme from the movie A Summer Place, memories of the Diane Wakefield
Connecticut shore coming flooding back. My 75-year-old self becomes that
teenage girl who was “in love” for the first time and looked great in her FIRST REAL LOVE
new white bathing suit. My then-boyfriend even resembled movie star
Troy Donahue! When dealing with a very difficult situation years later, I I met a young lady
found comfort in Alabama’s Angels Among Us. the summer after I
graduated from high
I once took the time to create a “Sound Track of My Life.” I very much appreciate school, and eventually
each phase of my life – the good and the bad. White hair, wrinkles, aches and we began a summer
pains all vanish when the music of my life is playing. Memories are made of this. romance. It was a magical time
and the first true romance of my life.
Linda E. Mueller At the conclusion of that summer I
was preparing to go off to college but
HE DANCED AND PLAYED THE TUBA Larry and Betty Wyer I did not want her to forget me while I
was away. I realized that we had gone
My summer song is the Theme from Summer on seven formal dates to that point, so
Place, by Percy Faith. It is from the movie A I got a 45 RPM recording of Lollipops
Summer Place, which I saw with a new beau on and Roses which I packaged along
our second date. We’d met in high school. I was with seven lollipops and seven yellow
a majorette, and he played the tuba in my line. roses strung together. On the stem
He was also one of only a few guys in school who of each rose I placed a note recalling
could dance. We started dating and fell in love. the memory created by each of our
He proposed to me at our junior/senior prom and, seven dates. It must have worked, as
of course, I accepted. We have now been married we stayed together another couple of
for 56 years and have lived in Sun City for 11 years before going our separate ways.
years. No matter where we are, whenever we When I hear the song Lollipops and
hear that song we hug and it brings back those Roses today, I’m taken back to that
wonderful teenage years that we cherish. lovely summer of carefree days many
years ago, during which I experienced
Betty and Larry Wyer my first real love.

Craig Smith

GROOVIN’

My most vivid summer song memory is
Groovin’ on a Sunday Afternoon, by The
Young Rascals. I had a wonderful group
of friends in high school that would go
on outings together on the weekends. We
lived in Ohio and would go places like the
Hocking Hills where we would hike, picnic
and simply enjoy a warm summer day. I
remember that song coming on the radio in
the car and have sweet, sweet memories of
that carefree time. I still have the album!

Vicki Simons

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