Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 25, 2018

Those aren’t the first guys Barry Manilow has driven away.

Fun fact: Manilow didn’t actually write “I write the songs”…

Some of my favorite songs.

The ‘70s had some really awful dreck pop songs. Wife #1 insisted on all Carpenters music at the wedding reception. Needless to say it lasted 6 months before we split. With wife #2, we played “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”, and we’re still together.

At my first wedding we had music by Henry Purcell played by a live string quartet. I “married into money.” The marriage didn’t last, but I still like Purcell.

Thank goodness we all like different kinds of music! I enjoyed Barry Manilow and James Taylor but also evolved to Jazz, Blues, and Classical.

Mocking Barry Manilow has been around a long time.Ray Stevens had a song mocking Manilow and interestingly enough on the new Sci-Fi Series, “The Orville” had an episode with Manilow music being classic and commented on how he was so under appreciated for his time.

Percy Faith ——and Mitch Miller belong in this dubious hall of fame

I think Manilow was talking about the advertising jingles he wrote.

He didn’t even have to get out the heavy artillery … Wayne Newton!

Ewwww, I’d be outta there too…Has there ever been a worse song than “You Blight Up My Life?”

Only thing worse is New Age music. It literally makes me angry. Its an involuntary response.

Even as a pre-teen in the 70’s, You Light Up My Life made me cringe and grab for the power switch in a panic.

C-rap music makes me dive for the mute button. It is even creeping into commercials, thus the ‘C’.

Early in our marriage my wife dragged me to a Captain and Toenail concert. She has managed to forget it, but I never will.

Little does Zonker know, but one day he will sell out to the Man, and become a serious business man, growing and selling Rocky Mountain High (Z-bud) legally.

Foreshadowing – and even Gary didn’t know he was doing it!

For our wedding, we used “The Ludlows” by James Horner from the movie Legends of the Fall. I first heard it as dance music and was so enchanted that I rented the movie (not the sort I normally see) and was hooked for good.

They’re coming back with Megawatt Boom Boxes and a bunch of Rap.

I wanted the Beatles’ “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road” at my wedding. Hubby didn’t believe such a song existed. When I proved it to him, needless to say, he banned the thought. (It was a Catholic full-Mass wedding, and my mother probably would have dragged me out of church and spanked me!) He also didn’t believe there was such a book as Dr. Suess’ “Green Eggs and Ham” until I brought it home from the library, but that’s another story.