Hi Jay.

Yeah Gettie up and Go was almost an anthem back in those daze, eight tracks
and reel to reel. I got to see Eric Carmen and the raspberries at Edgewater
park in 1969 for free and that was long before the CB boom..hardly anyone
knew what a CB radio was back then.

I had my Lafayette and my droopy drawers tuned, along with the 108 inch
whip on dads car though. We still laugh about the noises that thing would
make as it smashed into tree limbs and such.


Jay in the Mojave wrote:
Hello Steveo:

Back in the 60's and 70's, and even before the CB radio craze sweep the
country, we always use to go to the Long Beach CB Breaks, that was held
at some big park.

They had country singers and bands brought in by the bus load. They had
outside business's come in and run the various Bars, prepare the food
many different types of food. Clean up crew, magic show for the kids,
and even Valley Parking, real La Tee Da stuff.

They had country, folk and rock music by different bands and such. You
could even buy these guys on a 8 Track Cassette tape. I still have a few.

They had a Johnny Cash look a like there that did the Man in Black
pretty good. The ol man bought a bunch of the tapes and we where now
country and western music fans. I remember driven down to Long Beach
from the San Fernando Valley listening to the Best of Jonney Cash and
others. Yeah I wish I had seen him in concert!

I meet "Gettie up and Go, a local Country Western Singer that had a old
Johnson Valiant driving a 2 kW linear into stacked Moonraker 4 Beam
Antennas. When "Gettie up and Go" got all liquiored up, he would plug
his electric guitar into the radio and sing and yodel. Most all of
southern california was shut down listening to "Gettie up and Go"

He did a fine job signing Mary Robins "El Paso"

There are local drive in's that have oldie but goodie night, great food,
super good looking cars and trucks, all kinds of music, and a lot fine
ladies running around. Oh yeah!

Jay in the Mojave

Steveo wrote:

Yeah it was OK, I had the good fortune to see Johnny Cash live two
times before he passed, once in the early '70's Rockin.