Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

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For Dating My Teenage Daughter

for the next phase of my blogging career.

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"Bermuda" - Linda Scott

(Feb./Mar. 1962, highest chart pos. #16 Easy Listening,

#70 Hot 100/#78 Cash Box)

"Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes"

- Jimmy Buffett (2016 live perf.)

Kicking off my "comeback special," that was the late, great Jimmy Buffett,

pioneer of the Gulf & Western music genre aka The Key West Sound,

with "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes." Released in

1977, the ditty was a hit on the Pop, Easy Listening

and Country charts in the U.S. and in Canada. 

Before that, you heard Linda Sampson of Queens, NY, better known as

Linda Scott, do her version of "Bermuda." Released at the start of 1962,

Linda's single was a cover of a top 10 hit from exactly ten years earlier,

February, 1952, a song written by 16 year old Cynthia Strother and

recorded by Cynthia and her 11 year old sister Kay, an act billed

as The Bell Sisters. Linda Scott's cover made the top 20 on

the Adult Contemporary chart, while another cover by

Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, released

around the same time, failed to chart. 

Greetings and salutations!

  I am The Geator With The Heater Shady Del Knight...

finally back from my prolonged hiatus. Yessum, five

whole months have passed since my last post.

"April Come She Will" - Simon & Garfunkel

acoustic cover by Boyce Avenue (Aug. 2023)

That was Alejandro Manzano, lead singer and acoustic guitarist

for the Sarasota, Florida-based band Boyce Avenue, with a fine

cover of "April Come She Will," the hit Simon And Garfunkel

song featured in the 1967 Dustin Hoffman film The Graduate.

To get you back up to speed... in case you

blotted it out of your mind forever

eagerly erased it from your memory

just plain forgot... I needed to break away from the blogging

community for a prolonged period of time while Mrs. Shady

and I moved far away from Florida, the place we had called

home since the 1980s. Exiting Florida was a bittersweet

experience because we needed to leave behind

several of Mrs. Shady's family members.

Here we stand, worlds apart,

hearts broken in two, two, two...

"Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" - Journey

cover by Zero Hour (Mar. 2023)

That was the great sound of Zero Hour, a brand new cover band

from Akron, Ohio, with their rendition of the 1983 Journey

hit "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)." 

So, to get back to my story, I am now coming to you from my

new home "way up north" as the Johnny Horton song goes.

Further clues to help you pinpoint my exact location

can be found in the lyrics to that 1960 hit:

Way up North (North to Alaska)

Way up North (North to Alaska)

North to Alaska, we go North, the rush is on

North to Alaska, we go North, the rush is on

Big Sam left Seattle in the year of '92

With George Pratt, his partner, and brother Billy too

They crossed the Yukon River and found the Bonanza gold

Below that old white mountain, just a little South-East of Nome

 Yessum... the autumn winds blow chilly and cold... but I was

thrilled to see colored leaves for the first time since 1983... and

I'm looking forward to building a snowman in the months ahead.

I am delighted to have a new wife life but, along with this new

life, I have new and greater responsibilities, making it necessary

for me to adjust my priorities. To be frank (as opposed to Tom),

I cannot and will not be spending as much time blogging.

With that in mind, I now present...

 8 simple rules

for the next phase of my blogging career.

RULE #1

From now on, I will be operating on a significantly reduced blogging schedule.

I will continue to publish new posts, but only once a month, not every five

to seven days as I have been doing for more than 15 years. Yessum, it's

a drastic cutback, but the alternative would be for me to quit blogging

entirely. Many times in recent years I have considered doing just that,

 because I am getting tired of having to deal with persistent technical

problems on Blogger and Wordpress, and the YouTube Secret Police

 who apparently get their jollies routinely deleting music videos on

grounds of copyright infringement, the latter making it especially

difficult and frustrating for someone who operates a music blog.

RULE #2

As I have always done in the past, I will continue to reply to comments

submitted by loyal friends and reciprocate by visiting their sites, reading

their posts and leaving thoughtful comments. However, given my

added responsibilities and time limitations, my visits to other

sites will be necessarily less frequent and my comments

 brief.  It's either that or quit blogging entirely.

RULE #3

Here is another major change. Whenever I publish a new post,

 I will remain on "active status" that day plus two additional days -

three days in all.  At the end of that three day period, I will revert

to "inactive status" and go off the grid until I resurface with my

next post. It means I will not be present on the blog circuit to

reply to late comments on my posts or to visit other blogs and

read and comment on new posts friends publish in the interim.

That's all I am able and willing to do from now on. It's either

that or quit blogging entirely.

RULE #4

The principle, the rule of thumb from now on, is that if you show up for me,

I will show up for you. One worthwhile comment from you on my site will

result in a reply from me, plus one reciprocal visit to your site and one

worthwhile comment.  For 15 years, I avoided this "tit for tat" style

of blogging - trading comments, one for one - but my new

circumstances dictate that this is how it needs to be.

 It's either that or quit blogging entirely.

RULE #5

To my dismay, I have discovered that some of my posts don't find

their way into wide circulation on blog reading lists, meaning

you might not be aware of them when they are published.

You will need to check to see if I have a new post running.

If we miss each other one month, we can catch up the next.

RULE #6

My new reduced blogging schedule means that I might be skipping

some of my annual birthday tributes. V.I.P. death date observances,

Mother's Day, Father's Day and traditional holiday features.

So be it. If I miss a holiday or tribute post one year, I'll

try to work it into the schedule the following year.

It's not the way I wanted it to be, but it is all I

am able to do going forward. Say it with me:

It's either that or quit blogging entirely.

RULE #7

It was a tough decision for me to adjust to the new normal and downshift

to a diminished presence on the blog circuit. Looking on the bright side,

it's not the end of the world. I will be here enough of the time so that

we can touch base, catch up and maintain our friendship. That is

especially true if you and I are already corresponding by email.

If you and I have not yet established an email connection and

you wish to break the fourth wall and do so, let me know.

RULE #8

So now, as I begin this new chapter of my so-called blogging career,

I would like to reiterate what to me is the most important rule of all,

a common sense principle that has guided me throughout my years

as a blogger. I laid it out in my first post in the summer of 2008:

"Admission is free, but visitors are asked

to bring along three things: a youthful spirit,

a respectful attitude and a sense of humor." 

So let's get back to enjoying each other's company, singing, dancing,

laughing and having fun. That's what teenagers did at the Shady Dell in

the 20th century and the way I want it to be at Shady's Place in the 21st.

Don't touch that dial

Leave it on this station

Shady's gonna make

a special dedication

Oh yeah, oh yeah!

 This one goes out to

Falcor

dedicated from

Annabelle, 

 to

Pat

dedicated from

Benny, 

and to

Harley

dedicated from blog mascot

Toto Moto!

"The Dedication Song" - Freddy Cannon

(Feb./Mar. 1966, highest chart pos. #41 Hot 100/#50 Cash Box,

perf. on Sept. 24, 1966, ep. of The Clay Cole Show, NYC)

Thanks for reading my... 

 8
sinful
 simple rules

for the next phase of my blogging career.

This was merely an announcement to let you know

what to expect.  It does not count as my November post.

That's coming soon and I'll see you then.

"Oh That's Good, No That's Bad" - Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs

(Mar./Apr. 1967, highest chart pos. #50 Cash Box/#54 Hot 100/#52 Canada)

Have a Shady day, and remember the Shady's Place motto:

 "Never grow up, never grow old."

Oh yesterday's over my shoulder

So I can't look back for too long

There's just too much to see waiting in front of me

And I know that I just can't go wrong

With these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes

Nothing remains quite the same

With all of my running and all of my cunning

If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane

Meet Bud's Budding Blossoms - 60s Teenagers Christine, Denise, Sharon, Janice and Melissa!

After school, and often until late at night,

my friends and I satisfied our hunger for

good music in the Shady Dell dance hall.

We satisfied our hunger for good food and pleasant

conversation at Helen Ettline's snack counter.

Today I begin a new series that pays tribute to

another popular York area hangout for teenagers -

 BUD'S DRIVE-IN. 

Bud's was located
on South George St.
extended, just across
the hill from the
Shady Dell.

Like the Dell, Bud's was a meeting spot for

teenagers from various area high schools.

Bud's offered good food and a great

selection of tunes on the jukebox.

As it was at The Shady Dell in its early

years, Bud's started out as an ice cream

parlor operating under a different name

and owned by the Fitz brothers. From

1958 to '74, the restaurant was owned

by Bud Markey. Bud's featured indoor

booths and additional seating at tables
outdoors. Going to Bud's was a unique
experience because every booth was
equipped with a "bat phone" - a red
telephone that you used to place

your order to the kitchen staff.
A waitress appeared a short
time later with your food.

In this series entitled This Bud's For You, my assistants,
Bud's Budding Blossoms aka The Budettes, the girls
hovering around Bud's jukebox, will play their

favorite songs from the mid 60s to 1970,

the years I hung out at Bud's Drive-in.

I'd like you to meet them!

The trio of Shady's helpers below represents

the gang of teenagers making the scene at

Bud's in the mid 60s (1963 thru early '67). 

Selecting a song

in the foreground

is the ponytailed

redhead Christine.

On the left behind

her you see Denise

aka "Deenie," the

pretty brunette in
purple. On the

right, meet their

smiling blonde

friend Sharon.

And in this scene at left,

representing the teenagers

at Bud's in the later 60s,

(mid 1967 through 1970),

meet Janice preparing

to pick a song at the

keyboard, and her

bestie, Melissa

behind the box.

Now that you've met Bud's Budding Blossoms,

why not have a taste of the musical menu at

 BUD'S DRIVE-IN. 

 "THIS BUD'S FOR YOU!" 

CHRISTINE: I'm picking B-3

to play a record that was hot
during the Christmas season
in 1963. In York and in cities
and towns across the country,
high school football rivalries
were occasionally played out
at spots far from the gridiron,
and Bud's parking lot was no

exception. Set to the tune of
the University of Wisconsin's
fight song, and featuring the
girl group The Honeys as the
voices of the cheerleaders,
here are The Beach Boys
urging every one of us to:
"Be True To Your School!"

"Be True To Your School" - The Beach Boys

(Dec. 1963, highest chart pos. #6 Hot 100/#8 Cash Box)

SHARON: I'm pressing H-9

because I wanna hear singer -songwriter Neil Diamond's

first big hit. The record was originally intended to be a

demo, but with songwriting

partners Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich producing it and  prominently heard on back-

ing vocals and hand-claps,

the finished product was

too good to waste. From

the fall of 1966, a single

that brushed the top 5 on

Billboard and on Cash Box.

Troubadour Neil Diamond

sings-- "Cherry, Cherry! 

"Cherry, Cherry" - Neil Diamond

(Oct. 1966, highest chart pos. #6 Hot 100 & Cash Box)

DENISE: I get a kick out of

Sam The Sham and his Dallas

based band The Pharaohs.

I'm keying in P-7 to play

the group's.third single

and third novelty hit in

a row in a single year.

It's Thanksgiving 1965

at Bud's Drive-in, and

here are Sam The Sham

And The Pharaohs

cracking the top 30 on

the Cash Box chart

with-- "Ring Dang Doo!"

"Ring Dang Doo" - Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs

(Oct./Nov. 1965, highest chart pos. #28 Cash Box/#33 Hot 100,

live performance on Oct. 25, 1965, episode of Hullabaloo)

 TIME TO EAT! 

JANICE: It's the spring of 1968
at Bud's, and I'm selecting L-12
to play the latest record by one
of the top female artists of the

rock and roll era, sultry soul
siren Dionne Warwick. This
is one of the many hit songs
given to Dionne by the ace
composing team of Burt
Bacharach and Hal David.
The needle's in the groove.
Here's Dionne Warwick
and her top 10 single
"Do You Know The
Way To San Jose."

"Do You Know The Way To San Jose" - Dionne Warwick

(May 1968, highest chart pos. #10 Hot 100 & Cash Box/#23 R&B)

MELISSA: I'm picking R-8 because
I love this groovy sound by the
South African folk rock group
Four Jacks And A Jill featuring
lead singer Glenys Lynne. The
same month Dionne Warwick

was riding high on the chart
with "San Jose," Four Jacks
And A Jill became the only
South African recording act
to reach the U.S. Hot 100,
and they did it with this song.
Hot on Bud's box in the spring
of 1968, here are Four Jacks
And A Jill with their top 10
American hit-- "Master Jack!"

"Master Jack" - Four Jacks And A Jill

(May 1968, highest chart pos. #10 Cash Box/#18 Hot 100)

That does it for this sneak preview of my
my new series This Bud's For You coming
to Shady's Place in 2022. Many thanks to
Bud's Budding Blossoms: Janice, Melissa,
Christine, Denise and Sharon, for feeding
the old jukebox and playing the top tunes
from the golden years at Bud's Drive-in.

I leave you with another nugget from Bud's

box. The Hal David - Burt Bacharach song

"Wishin' And Hopin," was first recorded by

Dionne Warwick and released as the B side

of Dionne's poor selling 1963 single

"This Empty Place."

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Covered the following year by this lady - English blue-eyed soul diva Dusty Springfield -

the song became an international hit, top 5 stateside. Now for the whole gang at

Bud's this is emcee Shady saying so long and remember-- This Bud's For You!

"Wishin' And Hopin" - Dusty Springfield

(June/July 1964, highest chart pos. #4 Cash Box/#6 Hot 100)

Rose-Colored Glasses with Dr. Don Rose - Volume 1: 2020 Hindsight: A Perfect View of the Past Thru Song!

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And that's the latest from S-P-M-M news...
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 with DR. DON ROSE 

on the station that's #1 for music and fun - S-P-M-M!

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"Ju Ju Hand" - Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs

(Aug./Sept. 1965, highest chart pos. #26 Hot 100/#28 Cash Box) 

I've got a yoka mata huba bakwa Juju Hand

This yoka mata huba bakwa sure is grand

Makes your eyes look red and your tongue turn green

The yoka mata huba bakwa makes you scream 

Shucks, if I were in a restaurant and heard Sam at the next

table yammering that mumbo jumbo... I'd grab the waiter

and say "I'll have what he's having!" (BA-DUM-BUMP) 

In the lead-off spot, boasting about the magical power of his "Ju Ju Hand,"

that was Dallas rock & roller Sam The Sham along with his band of Pharaohs.

They're the wild and crazy guys who scored a top 3 hit with "Wooly Bully."

"Ju Ju Hand," their follow-up single that same year, 1965, didn't do as

well on the chart, just making it into the top 30. 

A Dr. Donald D. Rosey good morning to you! I'm

Dr. Don Rose from Quixie in Dixie, WQXI Atlanta,
along with my pet canary Lulu-Belle (MOOOOO!)
welcoming you to my first official radio show on 
sister station S-P-M-M, the authentic sound of
top 40 radio in the 60s. The songs I play will

make your ears smile, and the videos you'll

watch on my YouTube simulcast will let

you view the past thru Rose-Colored

Glasses and relive the halcyon days

of your youth. By the way, if anybody

knows what the devil a halcyon is,

give me a call. I'm pretty sure a halcyon

is the doodad doohickey gismo that

fits on the end of a whatchamacallit
thingamajig. (BA-DUM-BUMP)

Now let's peer through our Rose-Colored glasses at the fall of 1966.

For nearly three years The Beatles and other Brit bands had been

dominating the chart in the states, but some American artists

survived the onslaught and successfully competed with the

long hairs from across the pond.  Among them were these

cool cats from Boise, Idaho, and later Portland, Oregon.

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As the story goes, patriot Paul Revere shouted "The British are coming!

The British are coming!... but my band  of Raiders can and will fight back

against the Invasion." That they did. 1966 was The Raiders breakthrough

year - 5 hit singles in a row - and I've got one of them on my turntable.

Here they are, the clown princes of pop rock, singing the red, white

and blues about another problem-- "The Great Airplane Strike!"

"The Great Airplane Strike" - Paul Revere And The Raiders

(Oct./Nov. 1966, highest chart pos. #17 Cash Box/#20 Hot 100)

Just what the doctor ordered - a feel good

ditty from Paul Revere & The Raiders, a

terminal tirade about "The Great Airplane

Strike," a top 20 hit for the band in 1966.

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This fella's full name is Billy Joe Thomas

and he keeps nagging me to pay back the

$50 I borrowed. Bobbie Gentry wrote a

song about it --- "Owed To Billy Joe."

(MOOOOO!) Here's B.J. Thomas and his 

chandelier song - "Hooked On A Ceiling!"

"Hooked On A Feeling" - B.J. Thomas

(Dec. 1968/Jan. 1969, highest chart pos. #5 Hot 100 & Cash Box)

The sound of the electric sitar allows Boomers to name that tune in 2 seconds flat.
A top 5 hit across the land at Christmas 1968 and on into the winter of '69, that

was B.J. Thomas and "Hooked On A Feeling," a song covered five years later

by the Swedish rock band Blue Swede, the guys who added the creepy chant
 "Ooga-Chaka-Ooga-Ooga" to the song. "Ooga-Chaka-Ooga-Ooga" is the
sound I make in the bathroom after eating my wife's pot roast.
(BA-DUM-BUMP)

Dr. Donald D. Rose reminding you that

an apple a day keeps the doctor away -

if your aim is good enough.

(BA-DUM-BUMP)

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Up next, countrified crooner Roger Miller

sings about a place where you can see

bobbies on bicycles, Westminster Abbey,

the tower of Big Ben and The Snows

of Kilimanjaro. (MOOOOO!) Here's

Roger now with-- "England Swings!"

"England Swings" - Roger Miller

(Nov./Dec. 1965, highest chart pos. #8 Hot 100 & Cash Box)

A top 10 hit from late fall 1965, that was

Roger Miller singing "Inga Lynn swings

like a pendulum do." Shucks, that's why

I'm eager to meet her! (BA-DUM-BUMP)

Dr. Don Rose in the morning on Quixie

in Dixie and S-P-M-M, Retro Radio in Futuresonic Stereo Surround. I don't

have a clue what any of that means!

(KAZOO SOUND)

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These guys are a little bit country, a little bit

rock 'n' roll and a whole lotta fun. They're
The Newbeats, and they had a string of
Nashville style pop hits like this
one-- "Run, Baby Run!"

"Run, Baby Run (Back Into My Arms)" - The Newbeats

(Oct./Nov./Dec. 1965, highest chart pos. #12 Hot 100/#14 Cash Box)

You just heard the falsetto of the late great
Larry Henley singing "Run, Baby Run" with
The Newbeats. The record stopped at #12 on

the U.S. chart in the fall of 1965 but reached

the 10 spot in the UK six years later when it

was re-released as a B side and became

a dance favorite in Northern Soul clubs.

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Now a taste of Nashville soul from

Joe Simon. Joe feels like a puppet

on a string because his sweetie

keeps him-- "Hangin' On."

"(You Keep Me) Hangin' On" - Joe Simon
(May/June 1968, highest chart position

#11 R&B/#25 Hot 100/#42 Cash Box)

Not to be confused with the hit by

the Motown Supremes, that was

"(You Keep Me) Hangin' On,"

a different song and different

kind of soul - Nashville soul,

a crossover hit in 1968 for

R&B soul man Joe Simon.

Shucks, I'm all out of time and

Gary Owens is waving me off.

Thanks for tuning in and letting

me put some corn in your morn.
I hope you had fun peering into

the past through Rose-Colored

Glasses and reliving the salad

days of your youth. I'm a meat

and potatoes man myself.

(MOOOOO!)

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Stay tuned for Geator Gold with Jerry Blavat coming up on the B side of news,

and I'll be back soon with another pile of platters for a Rosey good morning.

That's my pledge, and here's Joe Jeffrey with his "Pledge of Love." Now

this is Dr. Don Rose along with Lulu-Belle (MOOOOO!)... So long!

"My Pledge Of Love" - The Joe Jeffrey Group

(June/July 1969, highest chart pos. #13 Cash Box/#14 Hot 100)