Here’s the Top 5 @ Noon Review from last week (Monday, May 23rd – Friday, May 27th)*:

*Remember to listen each weekday to the Top 5 @ Noon then put the #1 song in the “Members Only” Top 5 here: http://members.941kqk.com/asp3/lwcodes.aspx to earn points & prizes (If you’re not a member, it’s easy to sign up)

Monday, May 23rd Top 5:  Class Reunion 1982 –  #5. Toto – Rosanna, #4. Stevie Wonder – That Girl, #3. Stray Cats – Rock This Town, #2. Hall & Oates – Maneater, and #1. Tommy Tutone – 867-5309 (Jenny Jenny)

Tuesday, May 24th Top 5:  “Written for Real People” - #5. Elton John – Philadelphia Freedom (for tennis great Billie Jean King), #4. Cat Stevens – Wild World (for actress Patti D’Arbinville after their breakup), #3. Stevie Wonder – Isn’t She Lovely (for Aisha Morris, Stevie’s 1st born child), #2. The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby (for actress Eleanor Bron who co-starred in the Beatles’ “Help!”), and #1. Fleetwood Mac – Go Your Own Way (from Lindsay Buckingham to Stevie Nicks after their breakup)

Wednesday, May 25th Top 5: Top 5 on May 25, 1971 – #5. Ringo Starr – It Don’t Come Easy, #4. Lobo – Me and You and a Dog Named Boo, #3. Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar, #2. Jackson 5 – Never Can Say Goodbye, and #1. Three Dog Night – Joy to the World

Thursday, May 26th Top 5:  “Do as I Say!” Instruction songs – #5. Steve Miller Band – Take the Money and Run, #4. Supremes – Come See About Me, #3. Argent – Hold Your Head Up, #2. Eagles – Take it Easy, and #1. Rolling Stones – Start Me Up

Friday, May 27th Top 5: Class Reunion 1974 – #5. Billy Preston – Nothing from Nothing, #4. Paul McCartney – Junior’s Farm, #3. Jackson 5 – Dancing Machine, #2. Steve Miller Band – The Joker, and #1. Andy Kim – Rock Me Gently

It was a truly AWESOME weekend, with lots of work and play.  I started out with a trip to “mouse games” to visit my mother-in-law and play at “Chucky Cheese” before heading to the Fitz-Tunica to celebrate their Grand Reopening…  They made a pretty cool poster board cut-out.  What a difference a week makes after the river goes down.  The place is now back to normal and looks fantastic!   This is from two weeks ago in the cutout…

Sunday, it was clean the house day and a fun trip to the Children’s Museum with my son.  I also took my son Jake with me to work on Sunday for a couple things, and he had a fun time visiting with our neighborhood peacock here at the station… Seriously!  We call him “Elvis”.

Monday was a very exciting day because we went to the Memphis Zoo before it got too hot outside.  Once again, the folks at the Zoo didn’t let us down.  We have a world class zoo and we had a great time.  Afterwards, Jake was such a good boy he got to go for burgers and ice cream at Red Robin…of course, shopping was close by for his mom. 

As if we didn’t pack it all in with BBQing, zoo, etc. we even had the chance for Jake to take in a quick swim lesson at our friends “The Barker’s” in Arlington before a very good night of sleep last night after the three day weekend.  Thank God for our Veterans and those who serve/served!

Remember, each weekday at noon listen to the Top 5 @ Noon and then plug the name of the #1 song in the “Members Only” Club link here on the site to #1.  Earn Points, then #2. Win Prizes!  First, let me review the Top 5’s these past 2 weeks and then recap what we’ve been up to around here.

Here’s the Last 2 weeks of the ”Top 5 @ Noon” in review:

5/9/11 “You’re the One” (1-titled songs) #5. Three Dog Night – One #4. Osmonds – One Bad Apple #3. Orleans – Still the One #2. Stephen Stills – Love the One You’re With #1. Spinners – One of a Kind Love Affair

5/10/11 “Long Arm of the Law” #5. Eric Clapton – I Shot the Sheriff #4. R. Dean Taylor – Indiana Wants Me #3. Police – Don’t Stand So Close to Me #2. Diana Ross/Supremes – Stop! In the Name of Love #1. Paper Lace – The Night Chicago Died

5/11/11 Class Reunion 1980 #5. Billy Joel – You May Be Right #4. Romantics – What I Like About You #3. Spinners – Working My Way Back to You #2. Kenny Loggins – I’m Alright #1. Queen – Crazy Little Thing Called Love

5/12/11 “Red Hot” (Fire/Heat et al) #5. Ohio Players – Fire #4. Nick Gilder – Hot Child in the City #3. Sanford-Townsend Band – Smoke from a Distant Fire #2. Rod Stewart – Hot Legs #1. Trammps – Disco Inferno

5/13/11 Friday the 13th #5. Stevie Wonder – Supersition #4. Dr. John – Right Place, Wrong Time #3. Santana – Evil Ways #2. Cliff Richard – Devil Woman #1. Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes – Bad Luck

5/16/11 #1’s from May 16th in Music History – #5. Guess Who – American Woman #4. Sylvers – Boogie Fever #3. Grank Funk Railroad – The Locomotion #2. Yvonne Elliman – If I Can’t Have You #1. Michael Jackson – Beat It

5/17/11 With Friends like these #5. O’Jays – Backstabbers #4. Rolling Stones – Beast of Burden #3. Neil Sedaka – Bad Blood #2. Police – Every Breathe You Take #1. Hall and Oates – I Can’t Go For That

5/18/11 Top 5 – May 18, 1975 #5. Elton John – Daniel #4. Edgar Winter Group – Frankenstein #3. Sweet – Little Willy #2. Tony Orlando – Tie a Yellow Ribbon around the Ole Oak Tree #1. Stevie Wonder – You Are the Sunshine of My Life

5/19/11 “My Love” tunes #5. Emotions – Best of My Love #4. Paul McCartney – My Love #3. Pointer Sisters – Jump #2. Bee Gees – Fanny Be Tender. . .  #1. Eagles – Best of My Love

5/20/11 “Also Know As” Artists – AKA Top 5: #5. Eddie Money (Eddie Mahoney) – Baby Hold On #4. Dusty Springfield (Mary O’Brien) – Son of a Preacher Man #3. Andy Kim (Andrew Youakim) – Rock Me Gently #2. Lobo (Kent Lavoie) – Me & You and a Dog Name Boo #1. Chaka Khan (Yvette Stevens) – Tell Me Something Good

It took me so long to recap the last 2 weeks because it’s been busy, of course.  Not just getting through all the May rain and floods, but had a chance to go to Game #6 of the NBA Western Conference Semifinals and see the Grizz get to a 7th game last weekend!  I’ve never seen the FedEx Forum and Beale rocking like that!  Saw Al Green sing the National Anthem (nose bleeds…but he’s down there in this picture).

Also went to the Bon Jovi concert with my wife so I could earn some “brownie points.” 

But it’s also been busy because important business is happening here all the time…like managing how to properly install toilet paper in the bathroom.

Having lived ALL OVER (town to town, up and down the dial), from Los Angeles to Boston…I’m still amazed at the inferiority complex our fine city has! Aside from more to see and do than any other ten cities combined – it’s the PEOPLE who really make this place special (and the BBQ doesn’t hurt either!…:-)

So, whadoyousay we play ‘tourist’ and do some sightseeing?

Still LOVE the view coming in on the I-40 bridge!

Sunset from the vantage point of Auto Zone Park: PRICELESS!

Hey – can't 'play tourist' without a cheesy postcard, right?

Nevermind a free hotel bathrobe – DO THEY HAVE DUCKS IN THE LOBBY?

Beale Street – the SAFEST place to kill brain cells and ride a carrige!

And one day my child, they'll FIGURE OUT what to do with this 'thing'!

And somewhere amidst the MAFIA, er, these fine men, is or own GEORGE KLINE!!

Honest – I’ve had friends visit from all corners of the world during my time here – and without exception, everyone LOVES the Bluff City!

Sounds like I’m running for mayor…and we all know that is Prince Mongos’ job…:-)

Enjoy – and see you on the radio at 2!

So it’s been a wild couple of weeks.  Clearly, we have many problems with flooding between the Tunica casinos being closed due to high waters surrounding those facilities, for the couple thousand people living along the Mississippi, and for flooding keeping people out of their homes near the river’s that run through Memphis.  It’s very sad.  We’re continuing to pray and help with fund raising and information.  Here’s one of the most ironic sites.  The Tom Lee statue in Tom Lee Park before and after the flood waters took on the park.

Before:

After:

That said, the national media has definitely blown the lid off the entire thing.  We’re celebrating Memphis in May with a new location for the BBQ Cooking Contest and the Grizzlies playoff run.  However, if a reporter comes to town you have to expect them to STAND IN THE WATER, even if the perception is that the entire town is under water.  We’re doing ok, and people need to visit and party with us.  Graceland, Beale, and most sites are rocking!

Speaking of which, I’m looking forward to going to the Grizzlies Game 6 of the Western Conference Semi-Finals at FedEx Forum tomorrow night.  Should be rocking because it’s a must win.  My wife and I are celebrating our 4th Wedding Anniversary.

Here’s last week’s Top 5 @ Noon Review:

Monday (5/2):  “Before They Were Stars” – #5. Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well (Grave Digger)  #4. Bill Withers – Lean on Me (Installed Toilets on Jet Planes) #3. Meat Loaf – Paradise by the Dashboard Light (Actor) #2. Sylvester Stewart (aka Sly Stone) – Thank You (Disk Jockey) and #1. Elvis Presley – Kentucky Rain (Truck Driver)

Tuesday (5/3): Brothers & Sisters: #5. Stories – Brother Louie, #4. America – Sister Golden Hair, #3. Brotherhood of Man – United We Stand, #2. Neil Diamond – Brother Loves Traveling Salvation Show, #1. Sister Sledge – We Are Family

Wed. (5/4): So Good They Named it Twice (Main title/paranthetical title) #5. Frankie Vallie – December 1963 (Oh What a Night), #4. James Brown I Got You (I Feel Good), #3. Pretenders – Brass in Pocket (I’m Special), #2. T Rex – Bang a Gong (Get it On), and #1. Billy Joel – Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)

Thurs. (5/5): It’s Always About Her (She-titled songs) #5. Police – Every Little Thing She Does is Magic, #4. Zombie’s – She’s Not There, #3. Donna Summer – She Works Hard for the Money, #2.  Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me with Science, and #1. Stevie Wonder – Isn’t She Lovely

Friday (5/6): Class Reunion (1978) #5. Billy Joel – Only the Good Die Young #4. Heatwave – Always & Forever #3. Sweet – Love is Like Oxygen #2. Rolling Stones – Miss You and #1 John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John – You’re the One that I Want

Hollywood Squares:
These great questions and answers are from the days when ‘ Hollywood Squares’ game show responses were spontaneous, not scripted, as they are now. Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions, of course..

Q.. Paul, what is a good reason for pounding meat?

A. Paul Lynde: Loneliness!

(The audience laughed so long and so hard it took up almost 15 minutes of the show!)

Q. Do female frogs croak?

A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.

Q. If you’re going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be

A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.

Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years…

A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.

Q. You’ve been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?

A.. Don Knotts: That’s what’s been keeping me awake.

Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he’s married?

A.. Rose Marie: No wait until morning.

Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?

A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency..

Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say ‘I Love You’?

A. Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty..

Q. What are ‘Do It,’ ‘I Can Help,’ and ‘I Can’t Get Enough’?

A. George Gobel: I don’t know, but it’s coming from the next apartment.

Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?

A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I’ll give you a gesture you’ll never forget.

Q. Paul, why do Hell’s Angels wear leather?

A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.

Q.. Charley, you’ve just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?

A.. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I’m too busy growing strawberries.

Q. In bowling, what’s a perfect score?

A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.

Q. It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps.. One is politics, what is the other?

A. Paul Lynde: Tape measures..

Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?

A. Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I’m always safe in the bedroom.

Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?

A.. Marty Allen: Only after lights out.

Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?

A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?

Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?

A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark..

Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?

A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.

Q. It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?

A. Paul Lynde: Mine may be abused, but it certainly isn’t neglected.

Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?

A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.

Q. Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?

A. Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?

Q. When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?

A.. Charley Weaver: I’ll lend him the car, the rest is up to him

Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?

A. Charley Weaver: His feet.

Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?

A. Paul Lynde: Point and laugh

WE DON’T STOP LAUGHING BECAUSE WE GROW OLD,
WE GROW OLD BECAUSE WE STOP LAUGHING

A very interesting week.  Today the flooding is finally receding in spots, but we’re not out of the woods yets.  Pictures from some of the tributaries and near downtown look bad and some still haven’t crested.  Today, parts of Dyersburg upstream were evaluated, a barge hit the bridge near Dyer County at I-155 due to high waters, all 9 casino properties have closed, and everyone is on high alert.  Not looking a gift horse in the mouth, but I think my house is on the “high side” of Arlington, and should be ok.  That is, as long as the water drains below my neighbor’s fence.  Here’s the scene last week in Arlington near the Kroger and the field across the street.  I found out last night they are moving the Memphis World Championship BBQ Contest from the riverfront to Tiger Lane/Old Fair Grounds site near the Mid-town area at the Liberty Bowl.

It’s continued to be a good start to the week with the Grizzlies Winning!  Can’t wait for Game 2 against the OKC Thunder tonight!  It really makes all the work I do on 92.9 FM ESPN more fun.  Usually after the NCAA tournament, this time of year is slow on the sports station.  Everyone is talking about the Grizzlies.  Tickets are selling out.  You can’t find hot Grizzlies merchandise.  Really a great time for Memphis with that!

While Grizz fever continues, Memphis in May kicked off, and my son had a 3rd birthday party for his 3rd birthday!  Fun time this weekend with my mom and dad, and of course….”The Jake”.

When we weren’t opening presents, blowing bubbles, or just hanging out, we went to Arlington in April for some fun.  Always great to see everyone in our hometown!

But the most interesting thing I did last week was emcee an adult “corporate” spelling bee for Mid-South Literacy.  Combine beer and other adult beverages with words, and you get some interesting times!  Great fundraiser.  Here’s me with Mr. Chuck from WKNO, who served as one of our judges.

Thanks also to the other judges, including the Kevins! …Mid-South Literacy’s CEO Kevin, Kevin Kern, and Jim Eikner (would have been lost w/o Jim).

Here’s last week’s Top 5 @ noon Review:

Monday (4/25):  Jazz Influenced Classic Hits:  #5. Average White Band – Pick Up the Pieces, #4. Blood Sweat and Tears – You’ve Made Me So Very Happy, #3. Van Morrison – Dancing in the Moonlight, #2. Friends of Distinction – Grazing in the Grass, #1.  Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke

Tuesday (4/26): Work that Body (Shape Up): #5. Village People – YMCA, #4. Jackson Browne – Running on Empty, #3. The Jacksons – Shake Your Body Down (To the Ground), #2. Beatles – Twist and Shout, and #1. Olivia Newton-John – Physical

Wed. (4/27): Too Much Talk: #5. Bee Gees – Jive Talkin’, #4. Harry Nillson – Everbody’s Talkin’, #3. ELO – Sweet Talkin’ Woman, #2. Rick Springfield – Don’t Talk to Strangers, and #1. Romantics – Talking In Your Sleep

Thurs. (4/28): How Long???: #5. Hollies – Long Cool Woman, #4. Beatles – Long and Winding Road, #3. Eagles – Long Run, #2. Billy Joel – The Longest Time, and #1. Supertramp – Take the Long Way Home

Fri. (4/29): #1 on April 29th Tunes: #5. Fifth Dimension – Aquarius, #4. Blondie – Call Me, #3. MFSB – TSOP, #2. Jackson 5 – ABC, and #1. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – I Love Rock N’ Roll.