Inside John Glenn ’72
July 18th, 2007
The John Glenn house that is, not the astronaut. It’s random picture time again!… featuring a nice array of color slides of me and my family in our natural habitat, the house at 1849 John Glenn Rd. in Dayton, Ohio. The slides were dated March of 1972, and the calendar in the background of the first shot below verifies that they were indeed taken in March. To see more info about this glorious house in which I spent the first two years of my life, click here. Read the rest of this entry »
Ex-Beatles, while often sharing songwriting credit with a partner, usually didn’t need to share lead vocal duties with anyone. John had his Yoko…and Paul had Denny Laine. Denny sang lead vocals on no less than six songs on various Paul McCartney and Wings albums, including one of my favorites, The Note You Never Wrote on Wings at the Speed of Sound. In all, Denny Laine played guitar on seven Wings records and two of Paul’s other solo albums, Tug of War and Pipes of Peace. Outside of Paul himself and his wife Linda, Denny Laine was certainly the most recognizable of the Wings band members. 
Mom thought that she was coming down with the flu during the late Summer of 1975 but considering she was trying to get pregnant at the time, she bagan to suspect otherwise. I cannot specifically remember much about finding out the good news…or seeing Mom with a big belly, but I’m now told that this little chap who had turned four in October was happy that he would be getting a new sibling. Soon enough Mom became sick for real and remained ill in various ways throughout the duration of carrying the baby. In fact, just weeks before the delivery, our whole family was deathly sick from the flu, a virus that began with me, and there was even a petrified fear of losing the baby. 
I first fell in love with actress Crystal Bernard when I saw her in the cult-classic TV movie High School U.S.A. She was virtually unknown at that time, but subsequently became famous for her role as Helen Chapel in the sit-com Wings. I had always liked Wings too, but it somehow became the entire theme of my wedding weekend in 2003 when Jimmy visited to both lend support and videotape the ceremony and reception. It was a spontaneous thing – quoting Wings – and as much as we’ve tried to re-live it since, it never had the same comedic impact as it did on that wacky weekend that I got married to Carolyn.