Arthur (Skip) Gasch

Great Picture!

Where was it shot?

Art Gasch

Jerry Ochs

Art (Skip),

If you're asking about the cover photo of the YouTube music video (click on white triangle to play), the band is from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, so I'll make a WASG that it's somewhere in or around Saskatchewan.

I am tickled by the fact that Canadian country beats U.S. corporate cookie-cutter country by a country mile.

Michael Hunting

Much better than politics. Another great band from our northern neighbor.

David M. Schneider

Lighten up folks.  Wasn't it Patrick Henry who said:  Give me lysergic or give me the Dead!

Dale Gieringer

The Aussies have better country music too (not necessarily counting Keith Urban). If you exclude our exurbs and agribusiness lands, they may even have more actual countryside.

Philip Spiess

There are no less than fourteen shortline railroads in Saskatchewan, totaling 2075 miles of rail (take that, Amtrak!), so who the hell knows where the cover photo was shot (perhaps in the Dead South)?

Jerry Ochs

On the topic of music, does anybody know the date of our graduation ceremony?

Here are the top songs for the week ending June 6, 1964.

TW LW TITLE –•– Artist (Label)-Weeks on Chart (Peak To Date)

1 2 CHAPEL OF LOVE –•– The Dixie Cups (Red Bird)-6 (1 week at #1) (1)
2 1 LOVE ME DO –•– The Beatles (Tollie/Capitol Of Canada)-9 (1)
3 3 MY GUY –•– Mary Wells (Motown)-10 (1)
4 4 LOVE ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART  –•– The Ray Charles Singers (Command)-9 (4)
5 5 HELLO, DOLLY! –•– Louis Armstrong (Kapp)-17 (1)
6 7 A WORLD WITHOUT LOVE –•– Peter and Gordon (Capitol)-5 (6)
7 10 WALK ON BY –•– Dionne Warwick (Scepter)-7 (7)
8 8 LITTLE CHILDREN –•– Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas (Imperial)-8 (8)
9 6 (Just Like) ROMEO AND JULIET –•– The Reflections (Golden World)-9 (6)
10 11 P.S. I LOVE YOU –•– The Beatles (Tollie/Capitol Of Canada)-5 (10)

11 12 DO YOU LOVE ME –•– The Dave Clark Five (Epic)-6 (11)
12 16 PEOPLE –•– Barbra Streisand (Columbia)-10 (12)
13 17 EVERY LITTLE BIT HURTS –•– Brenda Holloway (Tamla)-6 (13)
14 20 DIANE –•– The Bachelors (London)-8 (14)
15 15 COTTON CANDY –•– Al Hirt (RCA Victor)-9 (15)
16 9 IT’S OVER –•– Roy Orbison (Monument)-9 (9)
17 45 I GET AROUND –•– The Beach Boys (Capitol)-3 (17)
18 27 TODAY –•– The New Christy Minstrels (Columbia)-8 (18)
19 24 ONCE UPON A TIME –•– Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells (Motown)-6 (19)
20 30 TELL ME WHY –•– Bobby Vinton (Epic)-3 (20)

Philip Spiess

Not "High on the Hill"?  (Or "Hail, P. H. McDevitt"?)

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

Jerry,

RIck Steiner would have known the date of our graduation in a nanosecond. I believe that the date is on the cover page of our graduation program which can be viewed at the beginning of the 64 Minutes with the Class of '64 video.  

Stephanie Riger

Graduation was Wed June 10 1964, 8 o'clock.

For some reason, I have a pdf of the program cover.  I tried, but failed, to post it here. If someone tells me how to post it, I'd be happy to.

Steven Levinson

I've got to admit that Streisand's People still makes me want to puke.

Jerry Ochs

Steve,

Moi aussi.  It's like drinking too much schmaltz liquor.

Philip Spiess

I'm a little taken aback that it seems that few of our class, except for Stephanie Riger, knew that we graduated on June 10th (and it looks like even she had to look it up).  Where were you people, hung over, or what?  (But sing with me, "Hail, Ph. McDevitt; Hail, Raymond and Bill . . . .")

Richard Winter (Winter)

Just watched this video and wanted to share it. Watch the whole song. The little girl comes in on the second verse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukD8zj6ngVY

I thought of some good friends in our class -- some still here, some no longer -- as I listened to this.

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

Thanks Richard!  That is adorable and really expresses how I feel about our class.

James Taylor also comes to mind:  https://youtu.be/xEkIou3WFnM

Love you all. 

Dale Gieringer

  For those of us who have somehow lost our original copy of our graduation program, here's a copy passed along courtesy of Stephanie Riger.  Thanks Stepanie for your diligence & organization in protecting this class memento.  DG

Jeff Daum

I appreciate those of you who visited my first blog on autonomous cars that I posted a little over a week ago.  The follow-up blog is now up at https://insight.daumphotography.com/2017/01/25/autonomous-vehicles-part-2/

IMO, this evolving transportation change will impact everyone of us in so many ways. As with my prior blog, please feel free to comment at the bottom in the “Leave a Reply” box of the blog post.  Thanks!

Philip Spiess

Speaking of cars, yesterday I hit a fork in the road, which left me feeling flat, but now I'm retired.

Ira Goldberg

Phil, I think I came to that fork as well. But, I took it, as Yogi Berra would say. So you shouldn't have any more deflating experience. 

Jeff Daum

Adroit antic Phil!  Well done as usual 

Mary Benjamin

Dick Winter, thanks for that wonderful, uplifting video! That little girl is just amazing!

love

Mary

Philip Spiess

Ira and Jeff:

Touche!  (And if either of you know the James Thurber cartoon with "Touche!" as caption, so much the better!)

Jerry Ochs

Would it be considered too "political" to bring up International Holocaust Remembrance Day? 

Please note that it didn't start with killing; it started with words.

Steven Levinson

Jerry, of course it's too political.  Don't you realize that serious words, unless they relate to one of our deaths, can bruise sensibilities and threaten the placidness of the website?

Philip Spiess

Um, so this is a "safe space"?