Saturday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with JIM CROCE!

Johnny is pretty certain this checks the Saturday night quality music box in ink. Johnny does have a story (Ohhhhhh, goddammit Johnny you promised no more stories) about this song. When Johnny was a young shaver he was downtown in Ortonville and Johnny's dad wanted to stop into the old downtown bar and hotel (It's the shame of Ortonville, it burned down one Christmas Eve directly across the street from the fire station) and his dad bumped into a friend of his from some civic work and she was the mother of a girl Johnny was friends with in school. They chatted and had a couple drinks and the nice lady gave Johnny money to put money in the jukebox. Remember the halo that appeared over John Belushi's head in The Blues Brothers in church? That moment came to Johnny when he realized he could pick the music for the whole bar. "Thank you Fran's mom, "Thank you Fran's mom,"Thank you Fran's mom..." Hey Jenny Slater, Hey Jenny Slater.

The first song he picked, oh hellz yeah, 'Bad Bad Leroy Brown' and Johnny got side-eye from his dad but Fran's mom sure tapped her nails and sang along. And here we are, and it's a beautiful day. With another Music Series.