TBW Daily Diary

Spent the evening revisiting my youth by listening to songs from the 1950s. And every word of those then-popular songs was crystal clear. Eddie Fisher, Doris Day, Don Cornell, Kay Starr . . . Almost expected Joan, Donna, Regina, Gary and some others to join me at our favorite Cheeri-o Restaurant table to fill up on French fries with gravy, a Coke with a splash of cherry or chocolate syrup and twenty-five cent hamburgers (no pizza back in those days) . . . Someone would come up with an extra nickel or two and he/she would trot to the jukebox to play the latest on Your Hit Parade. We would hum or sing along--Stranger in Paradise, Wheel of Fortune, Mister Sandman . . . Ah, those were the days . . .