There’s a guy I work with at WRTV also named Paul. Actually there are somewhere around a half dozen people at the station named “Paul.” It’s an odd statistical imbalance. I don’t run into a lot of Paul people outside of the building. Maybe I need to get out more? Boy, this post is rambling. I hope we don’t run out of Internet space. Anyway–one of the Paul people is Paul Montgomery, our Program Director at WRTV, and a swell guy. He is also a blogger at the indychannel dot com. Find him here. He recently asked a bunch of fellow staffers/bloggers for thoughts on songs that remind you of summer. My contribution to the Summer Songs Top 40 is below. Read the rest here. Thanks for your letter; now: on with the countdown.
Paul Poteet Good Morning Indiana meteorologist/”Off the Cuff” star-I’m a Van Halen fan, and when I hear “Dance The Night Away” from the summer of ‘79 it still brings back happy memories of very long days and very few places I really had to be. (That spells trouble.)
More recently? I eventually got tired of “Hey There Delilah,” but that spells last summer to me on the radio. The CD I listened to most last summer was “Traffic & Weather Together.” No, really. It’s by a band called Fountains Of Wayne. I’ve been a fan for several years. I’m a sucker for power pop with harmonies and clever lyrics and noisy guitars and all that stuff.
Just remember: “Baby we belong together. Like Traffic and Weather. Like Traffic and Weather.” Go on Limewire and look it up if you don’t believe me.
