My mother confronted me one summer morning before I could escape the house. "Mrs. Thew would like her fence painted. I told her you'd do it." I'm sure I objected with the monosyllables and scowls, what 16 year old wouldn't, but brightened when she added, "She'll pay you twenty dollars." It must have seemed a fortune in 1960.
The fence was long and it was pickets. The tool was a dripping brush. The hours turned into days. I was lonely, I was desperate, I was a prisoner but I had a 4 transister radio. All those long hours it whined away with the Seattle rock station, KJR. Every hour with a probability of one hundred percent I heard the same two songs at least once. Annette Funicello soothing me with "Pineapple Princess I love you, you're the sweetest girl I've seen... and Ricky Valance whining out 'Tell Laura I love her, tell Laura I need her, Tell Laura I may be late... I loved the part when the car overturns.. a 'twisted wreck' etc. you get the idea.
What's left? Two cheesy songs reverberating in my head that shall rest there forever. If a piece of music happens to contain a bar or two that resembles either of these even slightly, I have music in my ears. I'm struck and stuck with the music, the transister radio, and the fence. It's a connection to 1960 that I love to hate.
Addendum: As I was composing this ditty, the web link to Utube 'stuck' on Tell Laura and played a second time. I scrambled about to find the stop button. Is this my fate?
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I think a moment of silence is in order for Mrs Thew who had to endure those tunes wafting through her yard while you painted. Not only that, but she had to pay for the privilege of being forced to listen over and over to those songs. I wonder what went through her head.
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