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

Snow-covered house and garage in winter.

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.

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

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

Two boys in vintage cowboy costumes outside.

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

Vintage photos of a long stone building.

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

Old building surrounded by trees and grass.

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.

A vintage photo of a family with two children posing outdoors.

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

Old swing set with house in background.

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

Two young boys playing and hugging outside.

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

Tree and bushes near a road.

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

Person crouching on driveway near bushes.

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.

Child playing with a large spinning wheel.

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

Six boys posing with baseball equipment outside.

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

Plaque dedication and woman in white hat.

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

Youth baseball team posing outdoors, vintage photo.

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

Ocean waves under a clear blue sky.

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

Ocean Island sign featuring Doug Dover.

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

Music studio with keyboards and audio equipment.

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

Colorful room and black-and-white lounging scene.

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

Yellow house with trees and red car.

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

Sign promoting Doug Dover in lounge.

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

Band performing on stage with instruments, 1960s.

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”

Brandywine Ski Center winter entrance sign.

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

Band performing on stage in vintage setting.

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

Outdoor festival with tents by a lake.

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

Young man in vintage black and white portrait.

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

Vintage motorcycles with helmets in the sunlight.

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

Skiers on snowy slope with ski lift.

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

People enjoying water slide at park.

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”.

Wooden dock with plants and water reflection.

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

Musician playing guitar and keyboards on stage.

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

Crowd of people at a concert.

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

Musician playing guitar in white jacket.

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

Mario's entrance with vintage car parked outside.

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

Soldiers guarding area with burnt building remains.

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

Collage of people and a vintage car.

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

Group of friends in colorful ski outfits.

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

Group skiing on a snowy mountain slope.

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

Skier jumping in snowy mountain landscape.

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

Man playing piano on stage with microphone.

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

Full moon rising over snowy mountain.

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

Home music studio with keyboards and audio equipment.

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

A happy brown dog sitting near a waterfall.

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

Brown dog with long ears, looking down.

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

Sheraton sign for lounge musical act.

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

Musician playing guitar on nautical-themed stage.

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.

A cat sitting inside a large, blue seashell.

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

Sunset over calm lake with reflection.

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

Group photo with a "Peace" banner.

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