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I Get Around

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Saturday 9: I Get Around (1964)

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1) 60 years ago this month, the Beach Boys were singing that having a cool car helped them get girls. In your teen years, what did you drive?  It wasn't cool!!  I drove the family pickle green Rambler station wagon, standard transmission with three on the column.  We also later had a cute little black Renault, also standard transmission. This is a stock photo, but looks like it.

 I didn't have "my own" car until I was divorced at age 28.  That was a medium blue, four-door Ford Escort (standard transmission).  Also not very cool, but it was new and it got me to and from work!

2) They are searching for a new place to party. This weekend, will you be visiting any bars, theaters, or restaurants?  Not planning to visit any of those this weekend.

3) When Brian Wilson was forming the group, he turned to his friend Al Jardine, his brothers Dennis and Carl, and his cousin, Mike Love. Though most of their songs were about cars, beaches, and surf, only one of those founding members was a surfer: Dennis. Do you enjoy the beach? Are you good on a surfboard?  I always have fun at the beach but I don't surf.  These days, skin cancer is a concern so I just stay out of the sun as much as possible.  My beach days are over (so are my bathing suit days!).

4) They were originally from Hawthorne, California. Hawthorne was the early childhood home of Marilyn Monroe. Since Marilyn was one of the most iconic women of the 20th century, we know you recognize her image. Have you seen any of her movies?  Yes.  Some Like It Hot; Seven Year Itch; The Misfits; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.  Maybe another one or two, but those are the ones that I remember.

5) "I Get Around" is included in Endless Summer, the greatest hits compilation released in 1974. Influential music critic Robert Christgau said Endless Summer should be part of any basic record library. What's one of your favorite CDs?  Gosh, I have over a hundred CDs sitting in a cabinet. I have SiriusXM now but I do carry in the car Sean Detrich's "Porch Music" CD.  I play it a few times a month when I just need to chill a bit.  Music that is good for the soul!!  In The Garden...

Let's look at the summer of 1964.

6) The #1 film of the summer of 1964 was Walt Disney's Mary Poppins. Have you seen it?  Yes!!  Mary Poppins was my favorite "Golden Book" in first grade and I've seen the movie several times.  I've told this story before, but when I was in first grade, Miss Gibson had us draw a picture of our favorite storybook character.  I drew Mary Poppins with her umbrella open and her suitcase... Miss Gibson didn't know who Mary Poppins was and made me stay in at recess and draw Cinderella.  I cried at home that night and mom sent me to school with the Mary Poppins book to show to Miss Gibson.  She didn't care (and may have been embarrassed...).  Anyway, that's my Mary Poppins story.  I've loved her a long, long time before there was a movie.

7) President Lyndon Johnson accepted the Democrat party's nomination at the August 1964 convention in Atlantic City, NJ. Atlantic City is known for casinos and gambling. Do you often play the lottery, bingo, or any other game of chance?  Joe and I played lotto every week until we moved here where it isn't really easy to pick up a ticket.  I don't care for bingo.  I have been to Atlantic City, though, and won $100 playing a dollar slot machine once.

8) Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was still a baby in the summer of 1964. What was in your most recent Amazon delivery?  On Thursday, I got a new phone holder for my car that hooks to the vent.  The one I had that sticks on the windshield got cooked in this heat and I thought I would never get that sticky gunk off the glass.  I'm waiting on some new undies today!!  Yippee!!  LOL

9) Another little one born in '64 is Mariska Hargitay. The star of Law & Order: SVU is the daughter of a well-known movie star. Without looking it up, do you know who her mother was?  Nope.  I'm not even sure who she is since I don't watch either of those shows.  I had to look her up, and recognize her, and see who her mom was.  Wow!

(Jane Mansfield!)

Peace & Hugs!

Have mercy on me, have mercy on me 

A broken and contrite heart  

You won’t turn away 

Have mercy on me, have mercy on me 

Because of Your steadfast love