PPB: Summer 1969 / Michael G. Munoz

George J. Dance

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Aug 5, 2022, 11:26:20 AM8/5/22

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Penny's Poetry Blog's featured poem for August:
Summer 1969 by Michael G. Munoz

The first turn of July heat
And I was growing fast
Leaning into the sun
Like the nascent fan palms sprouting up
Through the cracked black asphalt in the street
[...]

https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2012/07/summer-1969.html

Zod

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Aug 5, 2022, 2:26:14 PM8/5/22

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Quite excellent, and a summer of great remembrance for me, the last one I had in East Buffalo, Doat Road before my parents moved us out to Grand Island...

W-Dockery

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Aug 7, 2022, 3:50:18 PM8/7/22

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Agreed, one of the best poems I've read in a while.

Victor H.

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Aug 8, 2022, 5:55:28 PM8/8/22

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Indeed so...

W-Dockery

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Aug 11, 2022, 12:07:49 AM8/11/22

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Summer of 1969, I remember that was the summer you did and your family moved closer to your father's factory job.

Victor H.

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Aug 14, 2022, 8:18:42 PM8/14/22

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1970.... but close... we left east buffalo for the Grand Island area....

W.Dockery

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Aug 17, 2022, 1:25:13 PM8/17/22

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True, I have only a general idea of the story.

General-Zod

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Aug 17, 2022, 6:20:22 PM8/17/22

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It all revolves around my great love of the era, Little Suzie....

W-Dockery

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Aug 22, 2022, 8:42:59 PM8/22/22

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A lot of good stories from those days.

George J. Dance

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Aug 23, 2022, 3:46:20 PM8/23/22

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For me, 1969 was a glorious year; it will probably always be the best
year for music, as I've said before (the "1969 Dancehall from a few
years back, eg.)

Of course, for me it was a formative year: it was the year I turned 16.
But I've been surprised to find much younger people also looking back to
1969 the same way.

For example, here's Bryan Adams singing about his glory days in the
"Summer of '69" when, in fact, he was only 9 years old back then:

Bryan Adams, Summer of '69
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f06QZCVUHg

General-Zod

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Aug 23, 2022, 8:27:31 PM8/23/22

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That was a mighty good song indeed...!

W.Dockery

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Aug 24, 2022, 12:56:10 AM8/24/22

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Absolutely, the Summer of 1969 was an incredible time to be alive, whatever age we were, I suspect.

Victor H.

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Aug 26, 2022, 5:53:12 PM8/26/22

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Yep, was for me

W.Dockery

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Aug 29, 2022, 6:15:16 PM8/29/22

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Same here, I even started writing my first primitive songs in Summer 1969.

General-Zod

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Sep 10, 2022, 2:47:34 PM9/10/22

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Yep

W-Dockery

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Sep 12, 2022, 9:56:23 PM9/12/22

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And then, September came, and we all trudged back to school.

General-Zod

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Sep 13, 2022, 3:48:34 PM9/13/22

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Indeed...!

W.Dockery

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Sep 15, 2022, 3:03:05 PM9/15/22

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Good times in 1969.

🙂

Victor H.

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Sep 17, 2022, 1:18:11 PM9/17/22

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Don Henley - The Boys of Summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv0noMoJKPE

Victor H.

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Sep 21, 2022, 5:10:06 PM9/21/22

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Yep....

W-Dockery

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Sep 28, 2022, 8:45:21 AM9/28/22

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I was only 11 in the Summer of 1969, old enough to know things were changing, even down in the sleepy South.

General-Zod

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Sep 29, 2022, 9:32:42 PM9/29/22

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Indeed.... I was merely ten...!

The Stooges - 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS_BsLxMqn4

W.Dockery

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Oct 2, 2022, 9:07:06 PM10/2/22

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Good choice.

Victor H.

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Oct 3, 2022, 8:46:24 PM10/3/22

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Loved Iggy Pop's camp in DEADMAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKVVkiMIkM0

Dead Man Iggy Pop/Billy Bob Thornton scene
Music
SONG
Stupid White Men...
ARTIST
Neil Young

W.Dockery

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Oct 3, 2022, 11:35:17 PM10/3/22

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A classic.