I know it’s the usual gripe that the first week back after a vacation seems to drag but, for me, it seemed to go fairly quickly.
I am happy to report that I met with Paul Sutter, Editor and Publisher of Shelf Life Magazine, the bi-monthly book review publication that I have been writing for since …about 2000, I want to say. (I’ve been doing the social media and updating the website for a number of years as well.) I picked up copies of the August/September issue and a few new books to be read and reviewed. I will be working on updating the website with excerpt from the new issue this weekend. Meanwhile, you can check out previous issues at https://shelflifebookreviews.wordpress.com/.
Other than that, it’s been a quiet week. My Mom and I have started watching WKRP in Cincinnati, an episode of two every night. For those who are too young to remember, WKRP in Cincinnati was sit-com back in the late 70s – early 80s about a struggling radio station that switches from easy listening to rock’n’roll. Before The Office, it was OG workplace comedy.
It was sadly ironic that just a few days after we started watching that Loni Anderson, who played receptionist Jennifer Marlowe, passed away earlier this week. I will say that, so far, WKRP still holds up almost 47 years later. (WKRP premiered in 1978.) The only thing is that the theme song, once you hear it, gets stuck in your head.
I went to find a link to the theme song and came across this version that is significantly longer. (Of course, they only had 30 seconds to air it before each episode began.) Like a lot of TV theme songs, there’s an extra verse or two that seems to talk more about new program director Andy Travis’s back story that gets filled out a bit more in the Love Returns episode (Season 1 Episode 7).
P.S. Another 70s/80s TV show whose theme had an extended version, so to speak, was The Dukes of Hazzard. I remember one day my Dad and I went to the Canadian Tire in London and I saw a Waylon Jennings Greatest Hit cassette and it had “Good Ol’ Boys (The Dukes of Hazzard Theme)” on it and so I bought it (or rather my Dad bought it for me). I was like “Hey, this isn’t what they sing on the TV show.”
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