Fountain's Of Wayne "Stacy's Mom"

"I wanna be Stacy's Mom," my wife will say whenever she hears this song.

Meaning, she still wants to be attractive and desirable, as our kids (and as we) age.

I don't know what the neighborhood kids are going to say, or how they are going to react, when their hormones hit and my wife is out sunning herself in the yard.

But she'll always be a supermodel in my eyes.

Happy Mother's Day.


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Aerosmith "Mama Kin"

Still trolling for good Mom songs for Mother's Day weekend . . .

This week my 4 year old figured out how to get the iPod in the dock and make it start playing.

But she doesn't know how to pick a playlist, and she can't read so she couldn't pick a song if she wanted.

Instead, it just started playing all the songs, alphabetically by artist.

After one ABBA song (yes, I have "Waterloo" on there), we got into a long stretch of 70s Aerosmith.

Bizarrely, when "Mama Kin" came on, she said, "Oh, this is good cleaning music!" and went about picking up some of the dirty laundry that had amassed near (but not in) the hamper.

I'd never thought of it as good cleaning music, per se, but who am I to argue with a pre-schooler who wants to shape up the house?


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Carl Carlton "She's A Bad Mama Jama"

I was rooting around for good Mom songs for Mother's Day, and, well, maybe this one applies to some mothers.

Anyway, seeing the song title reminded me of some fun trips to Nashville.  We'd head there from Virginia, for one show or another, and we'd always leave a little extra time to get out of the downtown area to go to this great record store called Phonoluxe.

They had a big selection of vinyl, even in the mid-90s when vinyl was at a pretty low point.

I remember picking up "She's A Bad Mama Jama" for 25 cents in a bargain bin of used 45s.  Score!


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Bob Dylan "Lay Lady Lay"

It must've been one of the strangest double bills Bob Dylan had ever been on.

It was a late 80s Spring Concert at UMass Amherst, where they always booked several bands---a little something for everybody. So you often go a big name act, a rapper, an alternative outfit and a folkie. Or something like that.

(To my mother's delight, they always held the show on Mother's Day, and me and my sister always opted to be concert-goers instead of gracious children)

This particular year, the headliners were Bob Dylan and De La Soul.

I was a HUGE De La Soul fan at the time. "3 Feet High And Rising" is still one of my favorite albums. So I was front and center for them.

And I was curious to hear Bob Dylan. I knew a bunch of his songs, and I knew he was a legend and all, but I was still years away from any kind of "Dylan Phase."

I was going to have to sit through Dylan, it turned out. De La Soul was scheduled to be the second-to-last act of the day, just before Dylan, but word was being passed that De La's tour bus had been delayed, so Dylan would go on first.

Again, I knew a few Dylan songs, and I know it sounds cliche to say this, but I swear to you, I have no idea what Mr. Dylan said over the course of the next hour. I managed to make out that he was singing "Lay Lady Lay," by virtue of the word of the chorus, but the melody and tempo were virtually unrecognizable.

Dylan wrapped up his set, and I got ready to bounce to De La Soul.

Unfortunately, the MC announced that De La Soul had been detained by the State Police, on suspicion of transporting drugs on their tour bus.

But Mr. Dylan has graciously offered to play an extra long set.

And with that, Dylan came out and said the only recognizable words of the day:

"Zaazz zu zaaaa, Mother's Day!"

Okay, only some of the words were recognizable. But we appreciated his gracious effort!


The station has two Bob Dylan Channels up for his 70th birthday. One is all Dylan songs, and the other is all Dylan covers. And we're asking for your votes, to help put together the Top 70 Bob Dylan songs. Find it all on our website.


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Billy Preston "You Are So Beautiful"

I was unaware, until reading his obituary, that Billy Preston didn't write this about someone he was dating or married to.

He wrote "You Are So Beautiful," about his Mom.

So sing this one for Mom today.

Happy Mother's Day!


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