Welcome to December! It’s the time of year to have joyous thoughts about Christmas, the coming new year, and of course, rock and roll memories! Christmas songs will be coming (you’ll get a “taste” this week, starting tomorrow), but right now, I am focused on the songs we all remember … some of them happily and others with regret.

By the way, the “nothing but Christmas songs” marathon starts next Monday and will run through Christmas Eve … and unlike radio stations you might listen to, there will be NO repeats!

In any event, I am super duper happy to be back, even with a scratchy throat. I suppose I could have hauled something out of the archives again, but I promised I would be back today and back I am!

Today we have several dedications, one kind of bad (remember that regret part?) song from 1965, a country music song, and a rare alternate version of a hit song.

Memories … That’s What We’re All About

Play buttons are on the left … Volume sliders are on the right

The Scratchy Throat Medley

Cat Stevens – Manfred Mann
Beach Boys – Gary Lewis
Temptations – Toby Keith
Monkees – Monkees
Sonny Bono – Beatles
Left Banke – Animals