Get Your Groove On!

Thanks to Ned Neuenschwander’s extensive music library of oldies but goodies we’ll have lots to listen to at the class reunion. On Friday there is a playlist of party music including songs like Celebrate by Three Dog Night, Good Lovin’ by the Rascals and Green-Eyed Lady by Sugarloaf. In fact there’s a playlist of 121 songs that will play for 6 hours and 9 minutes so we won’t run out of music. Ned even created short clips to see if we can recall song titles. Some of these will be used during team games. It’s surprising how many lyrics can still be remembered forty-five years later.

If you attend the bowling event there will be songs to pump you up. Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf will “get your motor runnin’” or maybe it will take the pounding beat of Gimme Some Lovin by the Spencer Davis group to energize you. Your feet might start dancing when I Can’t Get Next to You by the Temptations starts playing which will give you a more interesting four or five-step approach before you release the ball. Then there’s Eli’s Coming by Three Dog Night which always takes me back to a good place because several of us attended their concert at the coliseum in Fort Wayne in the late 60s. Thirty-five songs are on that playlist to get us through several games.

Things will quiet down for Saturday night’s dinner. In the background, songs like The Look of Love by Sergio Mendes and Brasil, Never My Love by The Association, and This Guy’s in Love with You by Herb Albert and The Tijuana Brass will be playing while we converse and eat the meal prepared by Grant’s catering. There’s three hours and 29 minutes of this type of music.

There’s great music to be heard during the weekend—that is if the technology works properly. Hopefully, some of our classmates are techies and will be on hand at these events to help with any glitches.

Registrations are due this Saturday, September 12, 2015. Make sure to get yours in the mail ASAP.

 

Terri Habegger Coolman