norman's sign off
The radio was my constant companion growing up. In those late nights when I couldn't sleep, I listened to the "heavy eleven-seventy KCBQ" and "boss radio, one-thirty-six KGB". When I got older and had a radio that did FM, it was 101.5 KGB, and my favorite, 106.5 KPRI. KPRI has come back, but isn't the same station. Nothing is the same as it was in the early-mid 70's. That was the heyday of FM radio. And the jocks had something so say...about what they played, about what was going on, about whatever floated through their transom.
I was a huge fan of Norman Flint. (very cool where are they now page - he's the fourth one down). I got to meet him late in the 70's when I started doing audio production. We actually ended up doing lines on a metal tape reel in the production booth, but that was the late 70's for you.
At any rate, I remember his sign off from KPRI. DJs back in those days were your friends...you spent (well, I spent) untold hours with them, sharing the music and the times. To this day I still remember his words, and somewhere in my stack of old cassette tapes, I have it. After thanking us for hanging around with him, he said:
I leave you with two songs. The first is a song of hope, the second a song of love. Remember that those who dance, are thought to be insane, by those who can't hear the music. See ya.
Hey jude, don’t make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.
Hey jude, don’t be afraid.
You were made to go out and get her.
The minute you let her under your skin,
Then you begin to make it better.
And anytime you feel the pain, hey jude, refrain,
Don’t carry the world upon your shoulders.
For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder.
Hey jude, don’t let me down.
You have found her, now go and get her.
Remember to let her into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.
So let it out and let it in, hey jude, begin,
You’re waiting for someone to perform with.
And don’t you know that it’s just you, hey jude, you’ll do,
The movement you need is on your shoulder.
Hey jude, don’t make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her under your skin,
Then you’ll begin to make it
Better better better better better better, oh.
Na na na na na ,na na na, hey jude...
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Baby, take off your coat...(real slow)
Baby, take off your shoes...(here, I'll take your shoes)
Baby, take off your dress
Yes, yes, yes
You can leave your hat on
You can leave your hat on
You can leave your hat on
Go on over there and turn on the light...no, all the lights
Now come back here and stand on this chair...that's right
Raise your arms up in to the air...shake 'em
You give me a reason to live
You give me a reason to live
You give me a reason to live
Suspicious minds are talking
Trying to tear us apart
They say that my love is wrong
They don't know what love is
They don't know what love is
They don't know what love is
They don't know what love is
I know what love is