This edition of The Week That Was is brought to you by Coors, America’s fine light beer. Refreshingly different…Try it and see!
Until the mid-1980’s Coors couldn’t be purchased east of the Mississippi River. This gave it some sort of a mystique among the kids I had gone to high school with, none of whom were old enough to drink, anyway. Back in the late ’70’s, Stroh’s, which couldn’t be purchased west of the Mississippi, started running commercials of people sneaking cans of Stroh’s aboard flights headed west. When a brewer in Milwaukee was asked what the difference was between his beer and Coors, he said "We don’t have bears p*ssing in our water." Pardon my French…

Look for an announcement in the next couple of days about a new project I’ll be starting pretty soon. This one has nothing to do with music, by the way…
I’ve been sleeping really well, which makes me wonder what’s going on. It’s sad to think that I’m worrying when things are going right, isn’t it?
Anyway, here’s the summary for the week.

- (Song Lyric) Sunday: Two “Chicago” Songs
- Monday: B. J. Thomas, “Hooked On A Feeling”
- Tuesday: Nelson Riddle, “Lisbon Antigua”
- Wednesday: Marvin Hamlisch, “The Entertainer”
- Thursday: Boots Randolph, “Yakety Sax”
- Friday: Freddy Fender, “Wasted Days And Wasted Nights”
- Saturday: Kenny G, “Silhouette”
Freebie day, and also Memorial Day, so I did an acrostic, spelling out "Memorial Day" using the first letter of each song name.
Melanie wanted to know what activity calms us down, the most spontaneous thing we’ve done recently (as if), the colors of "heart" medals we’d give out and for what, and the bravest thing we’ve ever done. I also expressed gratitude for the service members who left and were killed in action, and for the ones who left and we don’t know where they are because they’re either missing in action or being held as prisoners of war.
I continued with my project of looking at the #11-20 songs on the year end Hot 100 with 1964. As expected, British Invasion acts dominated, but there were a couple of surprises.
My latest Battle of the Bands (the first one I’ve done in a while) pits three versions of the song "Moscow Nights" (or "Midnight In Moscow") against each other. If you haven’t already voted, why not stop by sometime between now and tomorrow at midnight to vote in this battle? You don’t need to have any specialized knowledge or participate as someone holding a BotB, just have an ear and opinion.
I saw something on Lamebook recently that really had me in stitches, and shared it with everyone. There was just something about it that appealed to my inner ten-year-old…
Mary tasked us with finding a TV theme, a song from a movie, and a song from a Broadway musical. Granted, my musical was an off-Broadway show, but still, a wonderful song. The other two? Easy-peasy.
Christine’s prompt was a picture of a monkey with a bushy white mustache, and since I also have a bushy white mustache, I wondered if we had been separated at birth.
This week, Kat gave us five prompts and gave us the option of doing all of them, so that’s what I did. It was a lot of fun.
I shared the Top 5 instrumentals from the 1970’s, four of which were disco songs.
Linda’s prompt was "yarn," a subject about which I know a lot because Mary uses a lot of the stuff and because I’ve seen the sort of mayhem that can happen when one of the cats gets hold of one of her projects and pulls it apart. I talked about Sherman, a dear departed cat who was particularly destructive.

Tomorrow’s MMMM topic is songs like Frankie Valli’s "Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You" for Marie’s birthday. We’ll look at the "next ten" songs from 1965 on Tuesday, and at instrumentals that have human voices in them on Friday. Nearly everything else will be a response to a prompt, but as I mentioned above, I have a new project in mind that will give me a chance to do some writing… Stay tuned for that…

Thanks to:
- Abby
- Ai
- AJ Blythe
- Alana Mautone
- Ally Bean
- Arlee Bird
- Barbara
- Beth
- Birgit
- Cathy Kennedy
- Christine Bolton, Poetry for Healing
- Dan Antion
- Don Ostertag
- Ed Thierbach
- Ellen
- Eugenia
- Hans
- Hilary
- J-Dub
- Jack Connelly
- Janet
- Jeanne
- Jim
- JoAnna
- Joe
- Kat
- Lauren
- Lynn
- Maggie
- Marie
- Mary B
- Mary M
- Max
- Melanie B Cee
- Mister Bump UK
- Nada
- Natasha
- Patrick
- Patrick C
- Paula Light
- Robin
- Sadje
- Stephen T. McCarthy
- Stine Writing
- Willow
- Anyone I missed
- Everyone who left a "like"
And that’s a wrap on this edition of The Week That Was.

Talking of D Day.
We took a boat over Lake Geneva
It was raining all night long
We were lucky and we saw no enemy
And came from Switzerland, poor refugees
Far from the guns of war
We said goodbye to it all
They brought us in to a nurse’s station
Half a mile behind the lines
Oh Lord, how my heart was breaking
To see the children, and the walking wounded
Hoping for a ticket home
To say goodbye to it all
I woke up on a cold blue morning
I see her there, standing right beside me
Long years since I left her at the borderline
And how she found me I’ll never know
We decided there and then
To say goodbye to it all (to it all)
Say goodbye to it all
Say goodbye to it all…
Took a train from Paris to the ocean
Found a small hotel by the coast
As we walked along the beaches of Normandy
We came to Juno, Omaha and Gold
And whispered a prayer for the boys
Who said goodbye to it all
Now we’ve got our own place by the water
And I have a job in the old hotel
She is ready and she’s hoping for a daughter
Well I don’t mind, we’ve made our choice
We’ve got all the time in the world
We said goodbye to it all
We said goodbye to it all
Say goodbye to it all
Say goodbye to it all
Say goodbye to it all
Say goodbye to it all
Say goodbye to it all
Say goodbye
Say goodbye
LikeLike
That’s beatiful. Did you write it?
LikeLike
Oh! No I wish I had but not it belong to Chris De Burgh. It is a beautiful beautiful lyric 💜
LikeLike
Chris DeBurgh, as in “Lady In Red (The Way You Look Tonight)”?
LikeLike
Yes indeed the very one .💜
LikeLiked by 1 person
Coors was a very popular beer where I went to college (Missouri), and I don’t drink beer much but I enjoy Coors. I am looking forward to your announcement.
LikeLike
Right, Missouri’s about as far east as Coors would go. I don’t remember them having it in Iowa or Minnesota…
Stay tuned!
LikeLiked by 1 person