Back to the musical

A few times in my life I have had a dream that played through just like watching a video. This was one of those and it started in childhood and went through being a young woman and mother.

I was in the audience of a theater watching people on stage. To the left was a narrow set or risers, (like used when a choir is performing, except it was only 3 and 4 people wide. There were kids on stage, one on a bike and a couple playing hopscotch and a couple more playing jacks. And of course a couple of kids on skates on the side walk. Seems like one even with a hula hoop.

The tiny choir was singing songs of the 50,s maybe Elvis in "All Shook Up." Perhaps a little Buddy Holly thrown in. Everyone was having a good time.

Time moved on and I was a little older and at one of the hundred's of Teen Canteen dances I went too. We were twisting with Chubby and doing the "Bristol Stomp" and some kind of line dance that I don't remember the name to but it worked perfectly to the song "Walking to New Orleans" by Fats Domino. Now where the music was coming from I could not say. After all this was a dream. During this time I rushed home from school to watch Bandstand. There was "The Duke of Earl." "Blue Moon," I guess you might call these doo wap songs and of course many of them made a great impression on me.

Then it moved on to a little more serious vain. A few crushes and a few boyfriends. "Love letters straight from your heart, keep us so near while apart," a line from a song that even today reminds me of a young man I wrote to for about 2 years or more in my teens. "My Girl", which always made me wish someone would feel that way about me. In the 60's a Japanese song came out that was really beautiful. Even though in was all in Japanese, the meaning soon was put out and of course it was about a lost love. That song always reminded me of a certain boy I dated because it was playing a lot on the radio at that time.

There were of course plenty of torch songs that tell the story of breakups and the end of crushes.

Then I met THE ONE. Many old pop songs came to mind during that time. Things like "One Enchanted Evening," "I Could Have Danced All Night," some really tender songs about very strong feelings.


Finally after 2 1/2 years of heart wrenching ups and downs we were married. Something like "Going to the Chapel," and another one or two about getting married portrayed that time.

When I was a young married woman, it was "Love, Love Will Keep Us Together."

It was years later when Lori Morgan came out with a song "Called Something in Red." I was past the young married and young mother stage but I realized immediately that the song told so much about being at that point in your life. It was never a big hit but did get some play and I bought the tape mostly for that song.

Even today a song can play and it takes me to a certain time, a certain place, or a certain emotion. Songs remind me of friends and events. In my late thirties, a song came out and a friend at work told me that song always made her think of me. It was something like......we had it all, just like Bogie and Bacall.

The scene ended with an older me, with silver hair skating out to the center of the stage and doing a few graceful turns and spins to "I Did It My Way."

I woke up actually chuckling to myself and I think I must have laughed out loud. Yes my simple story of an American girl could well be the next "Grease," or "Hairspray" or "Cry Baby." I thought that was incredible at first but after thinking about it I realized that every one of us has a story. What we think is mundane and ordinary has something in it that is not. I also realized that I wanted to skate again. Just a few times even I wanted to go round and round and soak up the music.

My next entry will be about perhaps doing that. Talk to you later.

Just a bit of fun, I can't help but share this photo I came across in Reminisce Magazine

The couple pictured was married during a roller rink wedding I believe it was in the late forties. There was another newly wed couple in the group. The two couples went to Seattle for a honeymoon and the article said they skated at several rinks in the area. The woman ended her article saying that "yes, she still has her skates."

I also came across an article on Yahoo about a woman so passionate to skate (ice skate) that she undertook to lose 100 lbs. I think the mother of 4 has since done some competitive skating.

It just goes to show how a passion for something can make a difference. This is all I have to add today, but before the month is out I will post again. I promise you will eventually see where all this leads.