Miss Diana Ross in her Oscar nominated performance as Billie Holiday. This was my theme song for the summer of 1976, living in NYC & trying to figure it all out. I would sing this to myself while hiking in the Rambles in Central Park.
My dear friend- WCK3 is getting set to move in to really swell new digs in the throbbing metropolis of Eugene, Oregon. His new place is very swank & is being designed, down to the fixtures, just for him. As I stated recently: "WCK3, I am so refreshing that you are giving up the college dorm room look that you have cultivated for all too long". He was not pleased. He has been digging through boxes of photos & clippings, doing a bit of editing, & he came up with these:

Your host, NYC circa 1976. I think I might be cutting a line of coke in this photo.
WCK3 & my college friend- TL, a beautiful & talented, tall dancer/actress, & classmate & friend from L.A., on the Circle Line Cruise, autumn 1976. After WCK3 sent this, I mailed him back & I noted: "hmmm... I would so do young me"
WCK3: "I did, over & over."
This 1976 doodle, produced in my cubicle at my ASCAP job, has been saved framed, in many of WCK3's residences through the decades. So sweet that he has kept it through all the years & all the moves. I was just a little influenced by New Yorker cartoons in my early 20s, so it seems.
This is what I was listening to in July of 1976. Some things don't change, like my love of quality R&B, & some things change absolutely, like my hairline.



Love that sketch...love your memories.
ReplyDelete1976 lets see. college drugs sex cars men more men dancing drinking - yep it was a damn swell time to be alive. did i mention the sex?
ReplyDeleteComing from Ft. Lauderdale...the 70's were a blur.Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll. In 1976, I was just starting to breath normally after the Anita Bryant Witch Hunts in Florida. I still will not drink orange juice to this day!
ReplyDeleteWhen I imagine gay life then, compared to today, I'm staggered. It is like experiencing the invention of the wheel to space travel. Although there is a long way to go...I never imagined then that I would live to see the progress this far in my lifetime.
Continuing the fight for equality!
Jim
am i crazy, or do you & your friend wck3 look alike?
ReplyDeleteDear NormaDesmond,
ReplyDeletehow how very perceptive, yes, I am BEHIND the camera in that shot!
it was a WONDERFUL time
and I was definitely not ready for my close up at that time.....
wckIII