Tick's Notes & Tunes July 4th Special

Editor’s Note: This is a special edition of Tick’s Notes and Tunes. It is a transcript of a fictional radio broadcast with direct links to the tunes being played. The transcript is in 3 parts.

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Happy 4th folks !

GURU here ….subbing for Stony Riva

This is a very impromptu show

We weren’t scheduled to do it

But Sammy

our new summer intern

here at the station

actually made Rufus and I

feel guilty for not havin

a July 4th show.

So, I decided to come here to the station

All by my lonesome

To see if yours truly

Can’t make your holiday weekend

A little livelier

Maybe get yinz to tap your feet a few times.

I’m a singer

And wannabe guitar player

…and a bad one at that…. but

Not a DJ

So, I’ll keep the jive to a minimum

And just play stuff.

Our first tune is so easy to pick

That one almost overlooks it.

So, here goes.

Yinz might wanna stand for this:

https://youtu.be/DADmZdbQ9x8?si=ulHUlLTJfTImGTLa

Reminds me of my dad takin’ me to Pirate games as a kid

At the old Forbes Field back in the

Summers of the 60’s.

Seein’ all those people stand

All the players takin’ off their ball caps

Turnin towards the flag above the ivied walls

Of center field

And singin’ Was amazing

I have so many memories of that whole area

In the Burgh and Forbes Field

It makes me a little misty eyed.

Ok enough of that

movin’ on.

America does have a soul

The soul that yearns for liberty and freedom

That believes in human rights

And equal opportunity for all

So let’s celebrate that yearning of the soul

With none other than the Godfather of it himself

Here’s James Brown Living in America

https://youtu.be/c5BL4RNFr58?si=jnzHOEgYpnKOGr0h

If that doesn’t put yinz in the grove

Nothin’ will.

My fans out there.

…..And, of course, they are legion

Will be amazed to know this but

This next tune is off an album

That was the very first vinyl record of

Rock or Rock & Roll that I ever bought

All my record purchases up til then were

Of classical music.

Yes, GURU was quite the musical nerd

In his early days. It wasn’t that I didn’t like

Rock n roll and stuff, but I think I sorta thought

That if I actually bought it I might get grounded

Because only bad boys listened to that kinda stuff.

But be that as it may

This next record just so happens to have a tune

On it that is also relevant to tonight’s occasion.

Here’s

Edgar Winter and White Trash doin’ Back in the USA

https://youtu.be/TyBIfgj2jrY?si=TzVqdSc5drZOzmAa

I wanna get through a lot of tunes here

So we’re gonna keep our comments short

And I wanna make sure I get at least one country tune

In because Nashville in many ways represents

the heart of American music.

So, without further ado here’s

Brooks & Dunn with Only in America

https://youtu.be/GN1iI-DaJNw?si=Zom_CHlDPhFlFU8_

Speakin’ of the heart of America.

Indiana is pretty darned

Heart of America too.

This particular tune is one that our band

Did back in the 90s. and that I did

Last night at Caddy’s

I hadn’t done it in about 25 years

And I was soooo glad that the crowd really appreciated it

All I can say is Ppphhheeeewwww!!

What a relief.

Anyway, I love the comments

That the former John Cougar makes about this tune

And that era, because it’s exactly the way I feel.

John Mellencamp R.O.C.K. in the USA

https://youtu.be/SgtmStUrXMQ?si=uyhhMBB9X79fOZa5

Okay, time to pay some respect to our elders.

I owe soooo much to the mighty Midlo Trojan Band

Our band director, Mr. H was sooo great at giving us

Great tunes to play.

And, included in the ones we played were a lot

Of John Phillip Sousa tunes

Which, of course, have become part of the very fabric

Of American music

His tunes are soooo July 4th that they simply must be played.

There are about six of them that I can think of to choose from

But unfortunately, I gotta whittle it down to these 3 because of

Father time.

So here they are. Tunes that are

as July 4th

and American

As apple pie

So please enjoy

Semper Fidelis by the Marine Band

The Thunderer by the Army Concert Field Band

And the Stars and Stripes Forever… again by the Marine Band

https://youtu.be/qgABUZ4i9co?si=tmrEIvi-_py4TTHF

https://youtu.be/csaCJWGeEZ0?si=O8oKvYC8YLtv8KwZ

https://youtu.be/NV-czdDq4Is?si=4mIeyrjvkJ-QoO6q

That will about do it for our July 4th celebration

But as an encore

I sorta have a hankerin’ for this next tune.

It was written way way way back in 1938

By Irving Berlin and was sorta resurrected in a big way

During the 70s or 80s…

Especially by the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team

The Flyers and their fans thought that

Kate Smith was a good luck charm

And so she sang this tune at many of their games

Bein’ a Yinzer and a Penguins fan myself

I won’t hold all that against our encore artist

or this wonderful and inspiring tune.

So, I’m gonna leave you folks with our last tune

And wish everyone a safe and happy 4th.

https://youtu.be/QGMHnNqAjrI?si=axZ83esPq3VLZFAF

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