The Skyliners, The DoWop Years

   I'm going off the beaten course to dig up an old memory with this one, remembering back in the early years of DoWop when I was around 13 years old when radios were using vacuum tubes instead of electronics.  Around that time I was listening to a local radio station when there was this certain song that stopped me in my tracks.  This period was just before Motown hit the airwaves with the Miracles with songs made for blue light basement parties.  Songs like "Bad Girl" and "Who's Loving You" just to name a couple.  And for the guys who wanted to make an impression on a girl and steal her heart simultaneously, there was one song that could do it just before Motown broke out in the early '60s.  There was a song by a group called The Skyliners, "Since I Don't Have You", which was introduced to the airwaves in 1959.    This must have started more love affairs than any song played that can be imagined.  Well, relationships have changed since then and that's too bad, those were some memorable years and we will never see them again.

The Year is1969, and the song, "Since I Don't Have You"

                           

Digging up old memories

M.N.Curry

Love Relationships Are Emotional

   Before you lose track of your emotions take a minute to really think about and assess what ramifications of your decision would lead to. This post is for those who have gotten turned around and need to catch up on how a love relationship is supposed to work. which seems like the case of a lot of couples these days.  Real relationships have never been a one-way street or easy for that matter.  Life is difficult enough as it is without constantly having to look over your shoulder to watch your own back.  Trust, honesty, understanding, communication, and these are the most important for a start. It takes time to get to know someone especially if you both plan to take it to the next level.  I know a little about that having been there a couple of times.

  The year was 1981 and I was 29 and living the life roaming all over Germany in my old used BMW 735i even with that my rap needed a little help and like so many other guys at that time, I let the music especially love songs set the mood. There were love songs for just about every situation.  But then music has always been used to set the stage for the next step,  Enter Champaign, with a song called "How Bout Us" just what I needed to set the atmosphere and to spark that emotional OK.  And in remembrance of those bygone days here's something to think about.

                                                                 

                       

Think before you act.

M.N.Curry