Ah yes, July, summertime and the livin’ is – HOT. Say what?! Where are all those tweets about how this global warming stuff is just a made up hoax? Oops, my bad, as we only see those tweets in January when it is freezing outside.
But fake news notwithstanding, the number of July birthdays we celebrate in Buzzy’s extended family this month are very real and include the following:
Robby Hall 3 July, Berta Pratt on the 6th, Timmy Marum 10 July, my Daughter-in-law Stephanie Ridgell and Marcia Raley on the 11th, Greg Cullison and Pam Birmingham the 14th, Karen White 17th, Chris Axtell 18th, my great niece Chesa Allen 18th, Herbie McKay 19th, Amelia (Madjeski) Ray the 22nd, Steve Decker 26th, my step-daughter Jennifer on the 27th and Ricky and Ronny Yeatman on the 28th.
With over 25,000 recordings of the song Summertime it is up there as one of the most recorded of all time. Music was composed by George Gershwin but the lyrics were written by DuBose Heyward. I can’t explain why but his line in the second verse “Your daddy’s rich and your Mama’s good looking” still bounces around in my head whenever I run into someone who’s led what I call a cake-walk life, i.e. the livin’ is easy for them.