50 Pages of My Memories (The Ups and Downs, and Everything in Between) with Songs & Photos

1 How I Learned to Play Music by Ear. Our Family Home From Age 3 to 10. And, One of Many of Our Mother’s Original Poems. Song: Lean on Me.

2-A “The Hat I Didn’t Want to Lose” Song: The Letter

2-B The Hat I Didn’t Want to Lose (Cont.), & One of My Mom’s Poems. Song: “Summer Breeze”.

3-A 1st Grade “Music” Lessons. Song: “Mack the Knife”. Photo: On a Walk to Elementary School.

3-B 1st Grade “Music” Lessons (Cont.) Song: “Help Me Make it Thru the Night” Photo: My Elementary School.

3-C (1st Grade to 5th Grade) My Mother’s Poem. Song: “1814 BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS”. Photo: My 1st Grade School’s Exit Door to the Car Pool Lot & Playground.

4  A trip to our country club. Song: Scotch & Soda

5 Our Neighborhood, and More Stories From Childhood. Song: “IF”.

6 Stuck in the Forehead Playing Darts With My Brother. Song: “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”. Photo: Brothers.

7-A My First Bike Ride. Song: “Old Time R & R”. Photo: a Look at Our Front Yard Hill.

7-B 1st Bike Ride (Con’t). Song: “Let It Be” Photo: Our Driveway Showing the Hill I Went Down on My First Ride on a Two-Wheel Bicycle at Age 4.

7-C “My 1st Bike Ride” (Continued) Song: Greatest Love of All. Photo: Movie Projector.

8 “Dynamite!”. Song: “Annie’s Song” Photos: Our Neighborhood Kids.

9 My Website is Dedicated to My Selfless Mother. Song :“my Lord’s Prayer” on Piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8612XJcCs2o

10 Pitching With a Disabled(?) Finger. Song: American Music. Photo: My Team.

11 “Eternity” Composed during my Jr. High School English class. Audio: “Ocean Waves and Ol’ Cape Cod”:

12 My First Time on Water Skis. Song: “Mony Mony”. Photo: Marquee Va Beach, Va.

13 Saved by a Juicy Fruit Gum Wrapper. Song: “I Dig R & R Music”. Photo: “Naples Yacht Club Gig”

14 Survival Skateboarding. Song: “Heaven Forever & The Feeling Within” (2 Original Songs)

15 Fall From the Attic Window? Song: “If I Fell”. Photo: House in MI.

16 Turbine Car. Photos: Williamsberg Marquis & Our 383 Dodge Charger. Song: “Born to Be Wild”

17 Photo: My Appearance on “The Today Show” with The New Christy Minstrels, then having to move from GP MI, to rural Ohio. Song: “Without You”

18 Brandywine Ski Area/Dover Lake Park Photos & Stories Including 2 (Two) UFO Sightings. Song: “Land of a Thousand Dances-Medley”

19 “The Fyve” band practice in the Brandywine Ski Lodge (Above)& Songs, to listen to while reading.

20 Discovering a spring fed lake which turned into a water park (see photos). Song: Young & Restless Theme, Blue Moon, The Rose

21 Cut My Hair for Baseball. Song:“We Gotta Get Out of This Place”. Photo: Hair Lengths.

22 My Motorcycle Ride With the Principal’s Daughter (on My Friend’s Motorcycle). Song: “Proud Mary”. Photo: My Motorcycle.

23 Working in the Rope Tow Hut. Song: “Little Bit of Soul”. Photo: The View From Outside of the Rope Tow Hut.

24 How I Learned to Be True to Myself… Who, What, Where, When, Why, & How. Photos: Brandywine Ski Center/Dover Lake Park. Song: “I Feel Good”.

25. Story: My “Uncle”(?) Ralph. Photos: Quail Creek Gig & Caribbean Gardens. Song: “Bridge Over Troubled Water”

26: Story “The Guitar/Parking Lot 3” 1968 Miami Pop Festival-Hallandale FL. Photo: Countrysides C.C., Naples. Song: “Brown Eyed Girl”.

27 “The Guitar/Parking Lot 3”(continued) Photo: 1968 Miami Pop Festival-Hallandale FL. Song: “City of Kingston”

28 “I Was a Patsy” & “The Village Harmonica Rescue Squad” Song: “Angie”

29 Story: Kent State OH – May,1970 Photos: 3 Marquees, Ocean City/Cleveland Sheraton Song: “Dust in the Wind”.

30 Kent State Tragedy (Cont.) Photo: ROTC Building After the Fire. Song: “Kind of a Drag”.

31 “No Mon’, No Fun, Your Son.” “Too Bad, So Sad, Your Dad”. Song: “Under the Boardwalk”. Photo: My Mother, and My Girlfriend.

32 Story; Into the Alps on Skis to Find 2 Lost Blokes. Song: “Misty Blue”. Photo: “Friends”.

33 Lost in the Austrian Alps (Cont.) Song: “Lady”. Photo: View of Mayrhofen Village From Above. Below: Marriott Gig Poolside.

34: Gigs in CA. Song: “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”. Photos: A Gig in Lake Tahoe & Some “Tip Stands” Photos Skiing.

35 Songs: “Day-O”, “Mama Look a Boo Boo”. Photos: Ramada Inn, Washington DC Hilton, and My Apartment Studio

36 Ski Terrain Park. Song: “Come Back Liza”. Photo; Moon Over Breckenridge.

37 Story “The Pied Piper Dog.” Song: “Danny’s Song”

38 “Pied Piper Dog” (cont.) . Song: CHERIE_I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU

39: Pied Piper (Cont.) Photos: My Dog.

40 Song: “Thank God I’m a Country Boy”. Photo: Sheraton marquee. “The Right Clefs”

41 Dance Till Dawn in OC, MD Song: “Lady of the Island”. Photo: Ocean City

42 Channel 24 S.D. CA Song: “Time of the Seasons”. Photo: My Business Logo.

43 Dog Steals Show at the movies. Song: “Secret Agent”. Photo: Hilton D.C.

44 Song: “When I Fall in Love & Danny Boy 4 Part Harmony”. Photo: Lake Leelanau. Michigan Sunset. Story: My Barbershop Song Recording Method.

45 My Audio/video Experiences. Photo: My GP High School Reunion. Song: “Good Love”

46 The theft of an inheritance.

47 Lawyer secretary’s officially signed death certificate is FAKE (I have proof that she’s still alive). Song: “One Voice”

48 Photo…My Pianos at a Quail Creek, Sunday afternoon champagne brunch. Song: “Sound of Silence”.

49 Parents die, siblings steal inheritance, brother declares he “WINS”. Song: “Heart Of Gold”

50  Song: Our father’s favorite song “I Did It My Way”, & his achievements as listed in: “Who’s Who in America.”