FReeper Canteen ~ Tunes For Our Troops: Music From Maryland! ~ 27 June 2020

Our Troops Rock ! | The Canteen Crew and FRiend

[radu]

Hold On-Surf City

Crack The Sky are awesome! Saw them several times when I live in NC.

[radu]

Lookit choo, Publius! Been a little while since you got the Gold. :-)

[Songcraft]

"Silver Springs" - Fleetwood Mac

Stevie Nicks:   "I wrote 'Silver Springs' about Lindsey.   And we were in Maryland somewhere driving under a freeway sign that said Silver Springs (sic), Maryland.   And I loved the name … Silver Springs sounded like a pretty fabulous place to me.   And, 'You could be my silver springs…', that's just a whole symbolic thing of what you could have been to me."
"Silver Springs (song)"   [Wikipedia]

[Publius]

Age takes its toll. But I jumped tonight.

[radu]

Dang! I hope y’all didn’t hurt yourselves squeezing through the door at the same time. LOL

[radu]

Howdy, PRO.

Yer slackin’ tonight.

But then Kathy opened the door a teeny bit early this evening and caught ya off guard, huh? :-)

[mylife]

What’s new in Baltimore?

[Fiji Hill]

Any Eagles fans out there? They were from the Baltimore-DC area.

Don't You Want to Be Mine?--The Eagles

[mylife]

Crack the sky rocks!

[radu]

Ya done good! LOL!

It’s always fun to see who’s going to slide in first as soon as the doors open. Competition can be fierce some Fridays. :-)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Pro!!

3 Ringy Dingys

[Viking2002]

Old map, though. The Kelly tire plant has been pushing daisies for 30+ years. And I'm ashamed to say I don't see ONE BLUE CRAB represented, unless they're generically referring to them as 'shellfish'. That's like calling Filet Mignon 'a piece of beef'.

I don't like the direction that state has been going, but I'm fiercely protective about my birthright and heritage.

[Publius]

"Good Morning, Baltimore" from "Hairspray"

That's John Waters as the flasher.

[PROCON]

Hey radu!

I like to give everyone an opportunity to get first place, LOL.

Big heat here is making me stay inside today, cooler tomorrow, hope all is well with you.

[Fiji Hill]

Silver Spring, Md. was the site of my favorite record store in the DC area, Roadhouse Oldies, just off Georgia Ave. and a couple blocks from the DC line. They always featured a fabulous collection of collectible records. In 1979, I would often take the Metro there from Capitol Hill, where I worked with the Education and Research Institute.

Right next to the Silver Spring Metro site was a diner made from a railroad car. In the 1980's, this diner was replaced with a McDonalds.

I heard that it recently folded--most likely couldn't survive the Internet age.

Here's one of the gems I picked up in Silver Spring.

Fried Chicken--The Marylanders (1953)

[Fiji Hill]

What’s new in Baltimore?

A New Twister!

Baltimore--Fred Rich & His Hotel Astor Orchestra (1928)

[radu]

They sure do! So much fun in concert.

She's A Dancer

[Kathy in Alaska]

Pretty cool that you got to attend one of his performances.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Viking2002!!

Honorable Mention

[Viking2002]

Man, I used to hear ‘Hot Razors In My Heart’ by Crack The Sky on the Baltimore radio stations all the time back home. And yeah, Greg Kihn was a Ballmer boy, where my aunt and uncle lived for 50 years. He did some good stuff. I was 18 when ‘The Breakup Song’ came out. I heard it when I broke up with a girlfriend and it was a real buzzkill, until I had a new girlfriend the next week, then it killed me laughing. LOL The band Kix was also a Maryland band, from Hagerstown. Scored a platinum album and won an MTV music award in ‘88, IIRC. A bunch of us partied with them once in the parking lot of an abandoned Pizza Hut late one night in the early 80’s.