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Music of the Stars and Father's Day and First Day of
Summer.
Your father just might be wrong?
Wrong with my old man.
Don't be stupid with my old man.
Let me tell you about him.
He was never wrong about nothing.
Yes, he was, Arch.
Aye.
My old man used to call people the same things as your old man.
But I always knew he was wrong.
So was your old man.
No, he was.
Yes, he was.
Your father
was wrong.
Your father was wrong!
Don't tell me my father was wrong.
Let me tell you something.
Your father, the breadwinner of the house there, the man who goes out and busts his butt to keep a root wall in your head, and clothes on your back, you call your father, you know?
Hey, hey, hey, your father.
Your father?
That's the man that comes home bringing you candy?
Your father's the first guy to throw a baseball to you?
and take you for walks in the park, holding by the hand?
My father held me by the hand.
Oh, hey.
My father had a hand on him.
Now, let's tell you, he busted that hand once, and he busted on me to teach me to do good.
My father, he shoved me in the closet for seven hours to teach me to do good.
Of course, he loved me.
He loved me.
Don't be looking at me.
Hey, uh, let me tell you something.
You're supposed to love your father.
Of course, your father loves you.
But how can any man that loves you, tell you anything that's wrong?
Well, it's usually soft.
Soft.
Soft.
Bad thing.
Carol O'Connor, Rob Reiner.
From All in the Family, this is Lawrence Welk.
too soon, but I'll play it again.
It's that good.
I'll tell you a story about that record, though.
I got that record from my dad, Silvio, in 1948.
He bought it because he got a used phonograph radio from a relative, a brother-in-law, and we needed records.
So he went to a shop in Kenosha, a second-hand store called Harvey's Trading
Post.
The
building's gone
now.
And it got there and a bunch of other ones.
And I played that till it wore
white.
And
it's broken in eight places.
And it
still
plays.
Which of them is really me?
Which of them is really me?
I will see the...
Which of them is really me?
Which of them is really
me?
I guess this is it.
You wouldn't be trying to make me feel good, would you?
Arch, I want to thank you.
I'll go ahead.
I want to thank you for all the years you let me live here.
for all the free meals and for all the nice times we had together.
I know there was a lot of arguing and fighting, but we did have some nice times.
Yeah, there was nice times.
You've been like a father to me.
You've been just like a son to me.
You never did nothing I ever told you, did you?
Hey,
Archer, we want you and Mara to come visit us out there.
Oh, well, maybe a mother-in-law can do that, but, you know... I think you'd like it out there.
Nah, nah, I don't think so.
Oh, fresh juice every morning?
Well, you know me, I always take the candy.
That's a sunshine?
Yeah, what do I point these to?
Pacific Ocean?
Yeah, well, I don't like an ocean where the sun goes down.
I like an ocean where the sun
comes up.
I'm gonna miss you.
Wow, listen, I... I'm gonna... You know, I... Hey, listen.
You just take...
Very good care, Gloria and Joseph.
Those are two things you never have to worry about, Arch.
I
promise.
Children at play Memories come from far away Taking me hold in my hand To the playground Wonderland Seasaw Lifting you high Swing
that let you touch the sky.
Then whenever you're through, painted ponies wait for you.
It's a world summertime.
At your side, up you climb and down you slide.
When I hear, I love to play the play.
Now, every time I...
turns learning to share jungle gym or teddy bear hide and seek counting to ten oh to play there once again see so lifting you high swing
that let you touch the sky.
Then whenever you're through, painted
Daddy said you love your little girl.
Yeah, the taxi meet is running out there, you know?
You better call them two out of the kitchen, huh?
Yeah, you better do
that.
Michael, the cab driver's honking.
OK, honey.
You want to
take Joe?
Yeah, Joe.
Good bye, Joe.
Say goodbye to Grandma.
Say goodbye to
Grandma.
Good
bye, Joe.
Come
on, Joe.
Come on,
Joe.
I love you.
Because we're closer to the ground And you are bigger by the pound You have no right, you have no right To push and shove us little kids around Now just because your throat has got a deeper voice And lots of wind to blow it out At little kids who don't dare shout
You have no right, you have no right to boss and beat us little kids about.
Just because your whisk is on your face to shave, you treat us like a slave, so what, it's only hair.
Just because you wear your wallet near your heart, you think you're twice as smart, you know it isn't fair.
But we'll grow up someday, and when we do, I-
We won't just grow in size and sound And just be bigger by the pound I'd hate to grow like some I know Who push and shove the little kids around
Just because you whiskers on your face to shave You treat us like a slave so what it's only hair Just because you wear a wallet near your heart You think you're twice as smart You know it isn't fair But we'll grow up someday And when we do, I pray We won't just grow in size and sound And just be bigger
I'd hate to grow like some I know who puts sense of the little kids around just because we're kids.
A father is a thing that is forced to endure childbirth without an anesthetic.
A father is a thing that growls when it feels good and laughs very loud when it's scared half to death.
A father is sometimes accused of giving too much time to his business when the little ones are growing up.
And that's partly fear too.
Fathers are much more easily frightened than mothers.
A father never feels entirely worthy of the worship in a child's eyes.
He's never quite the hero his daughter thinks, never quite the man his son believes him to be.
And this worries him sometimes.
So he works too hard.
to try to smooth the rough places in the road for those of his own who will follow him.
A father is a thing that gets very angry when the first school grades are not so good as he thinks they should be.
And so he scolds his son or his daughter, though he knows it's the teacher's fault.
A father is a thing that goes away to war sometimes.
He learns to swear and shoot and spit through his teeth and he would run the other way except that
This war is part of his only important job in life, which is making the world better for his child than it has been for him.
Fathers grow old faster than people because they, in other wars, have to stand at the train station and wave goodbye to the uniform that climbs aboard.
While mothers can cry where it shows, fathers have to stand there and beam outside and
die inside.
Fathers have very stout hearts, so they have to be broken sometimes, or no one would know what's inside.
Fathers are what give daughters away to other men who are not nearly good enough so that they can have grandchildren that are smarter than anybody's.
Fathers fight dragons almost daily.
They hurry away from the breakfast table off to the arena, which is sometimes called an office or a workshop.
There with calloused, practiced hands, they tackle the dragon with three heads, weariness, work, and monotony.
They never quite win the fight, but they never give up.
Knights in shining armor, fathers in shiny trousers, there's little difference.
as they march away to each work day.
Fathers make bets with insurance companies who will live the longest.
Though they know the odds, they keep right on betting.
Even as the odds get higher and higher, they keep right on betting more and more.
One day they lose.
But fathers enjoy an earthly immortality, and the bet is paid off to the part of him he leaves behind.
I don't know where fathers go when they die, but I have an idea that after a good rest, wherever it is, he won't be happy unless there's work to do.
He won't just sit on a cloud and wait for the girl he's loved and the children she bore.
No.
He'll be busy there too, repairing the stairs, oiling the gates.
improving the streets, smoothing the way.
in the eyes of the world he'll never make history no he isn't much in the eyes of the world but he is the world to me my dad now here is a man
Two.
The first thing I'd like to show you today is a book that a teenage friend of mine made for her father.
What is a father by Lainey Droz?
A father is someone who you can go places with and have lots of fun.
A father is someone who can help you with school projects.
A father is someone who can leave a meeting if you're sick to come pick you up.
A father is someone who teaches you the right thing when you've done the wrong.
A father is someone who loves you and understands your feelings.
A father is someone very, very special.
Is that a great present?
The first thing I'd like to show you today is a book that a teenage friend of mine made for her father.
What is a Father by Lainey Droves.
A father is someone who you can go places with and have lots of fun.
A father is someone who can help you with school projects.
A father is someone who can leave a meeting if you're sick to come pick you up.
A father is someone who teaches you the right thing when you've done the wrong.
A father is someone who loves you.
and understand your
feelings.
Illuminates my soul
As I seem to
It seems like only yesterday.
And I can hear my little girl say, Daddy?
There's a boy outside.
His name is Rod.
He wants to play in our backyard.
Can he, Daddy?
Can he, Daddy?
Oh, please, Daddy.
Was it really so long ago that she'd come to me and she'd want to know?
Dad?
There's a boy outside.
His name is Lee.
He wants to carry my books for me.
Can he, Daddy?
Is it all right, Dad?
He's got freckles, Dad.
The man in my little girl's life.
The man in my little girl's life.
Then came ponytails and jeans and...
My little girl was in her teens.
Popsie?
There's a boy outside.
His name is Tom.
He wants to take me to the prom.
Okay, Popsie?
He's cute, Popsie.
We'll be home early, Popsie.
Before I knew it, time had flown and how my little girl had grown.
Now it was father.
There's a boy outside.
His name is Eddie.
He wants to know if we can go steady.
Can we, Father?
Yes, Father?
Oh, can we borrow the car, Pop?
Yes, it seems like only yesterday I heard my lovely daughter say, Dad?
There's a boy outside.
His name is Jim.
He asked me if I'd marry him.
I said yes, Dad.
That's something in your eye, Dad?
I love him, Dad.
The man in my little girl's life.
The man in my little girl's life.
A child?
An adolescent.
A young lady.
A wife.
And oh yes, there's another man in my little girl's life.
Hi, Dad.
There's a boy outside.
His name is Tim.
I told him Grandpa was gonna babysit with him.
Thanks, Dad.
Bless you, Dad.
Good night dad.
The man in my little girl's life.
The man in my little girl's life.
Mike Douglas.
The music of the stars.
Pacific Media Radio Network, Mario Lanza.
It's also the first day of summer.
Let's take a week off, celebrate it next week.
Have I got the summer music?
Have I?
Oh yeah, here we go.
What's the song you think about when you think about summer?
Plenty of songs about summer.
And Father's Day too, as you've seen.
You would have liked my dad.
Sylvia Vergani.
Came from Italy.
Worked in a copper mine in northern Michigan.
Met my mother, moved to Kenosha.
Everybody liked him.
You would too.
Here's a song about summer.
Wishing you and yours the very best for the season.
We've waited long enough.
Coldest spring I can recall.
The
music of the stars.
Stay with us all summer long and beyond.
Happy summer everybody.
And all the blessings that it enfolds.
It'll wrap you up and you'll fall in love with Wisconsin's favorite season and rightfully so.
Next week from 7 o'clock till high noon central.
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There we are.
That call with Gordon
Jenkins.
Your mind,
magnificent obsession.
The greatest wonder on this
earth.
I was in awe of him.
We're pretty much the same age, but he was light years ahead of me in terms of the industry and the business of show.
And I was maybe in my third or fourth year of the show with them, with him.
And he brings one day into rehearsal hall and slaps a book down in front of me.
Sally Struthers.
I said, read this.
I said, why?
He says, I've just acquired the rights to it, and as soon as my contract is over with all the family, I'm going to make this into a film.
It was The Princess Bride.
So he was in his mid-20s, and he had already plotted out his career post-meathead.
And I was just showing up every day, never thinking about the future.
I was in all of him.
We're pretty much the same age, but he was light years ahead of me in terms of
the industry and and the business of show and I was maybe in my third or fourth year of the show with them with him and he brings one day into rehearsal hall and slaps a book down in front of me and says uh read this I said why he says I've just acquired the rights to it and as soon as my contract is over with all the family I'm gonna make this into a film it was The Princess Bride
so he was
in it
If there's an obsession Day in and day out It's always the same There is love beyond expression
As my kisses have told
I
keep asking when again you'll be Mine to have and to hold Deep in the darkness when
and obsession, obsession.
The music of the stars next Sunday.
Songs about summer.
And more.
Summer is not just alone.
There's things happening.
Let's look into that.
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