Thursday, May 29, 2008

Flashback.....



While at Starbucks and looking at the CD display, I saw a compilation CD of old songs and recognized one by Rosemary Clooney - Come On-A My House. It was playing on the radio during one of our yearly trips back to Minnesota and caused quite an arguement between mother and dad. Mother was singing along with the radio and dad was quite upset about her singing that "hussy" song. I didn't know then what a hussy was but figured it probably wasn't too bad because mother kept singing.

We kids enjoyed the trips but they were hard on our parents - four (eventually five) kids in the back seat, squirming all over the place and asking every hour or so, "aren't we there yet?" We four (eventually five) had our space staked out and it was war if someone got too close or, heaven forbid, touched us. Being susceptible to car sickness I was often allowed to sit in the front. It didn't take me long to know how to use that - a feeble, "I don't feel so well" got me moved up quickly to the front. Mother frantically told dad to pull over and stop because she thought I might urp in the car - can you imagine traveling 2k miles in a car that's been urped in? No, and neither could she.

3 comments:

rosemary said...

My mother absolutely loved Rosemary Clooney and Peggy Lee and Morgan somebodyorother and I still have tons of 78's from that time. I always thought she loved RC because of the same name...nope, that was wrong. We did cross country trips every summer...from Calif to Ohio and then on to Virginia....my dad kept me going with the game of who could find the most JC Penny's stores and marble orchards....aka cemeterys.....he always let me win.

Mom said...

When I was a kid there were just 3 kids in the back seat for our yearly trip from California to Texas. We all fought to get a window seat. We had four kids in the back of our station wagon. I think the kids read the entire world's supply of comic books as we drove across the country.
I love Rosemary Clooney.

Sandy said...

Rosemary, you're the baby but I love that we all have some things in common. Can't think of who "Morgan" was though.

Mom, you reminded me that we read comic books too and that's what probably made me carsick. Window seats were a premium!