THE AUGUST OF MY DISCONTENT

**A Re-Post of Blog a few years back!


AWW-GUST! Not my favorite month. Whoever coined the phrase: "The Dog Days of August" surely knew that it was not a month for us humans. As the un-relenting rays of the sun melt the landscape in the Midwest and other parts of the U.S., not even dogs want to venture outside. What to do with these thirty-one days of Summer doldrums? Listen to the Radio? You must be kidding. There’s nothing on the air that would excite the senses. What happened to Dick Biondi, Tom Clay, Lee Baby Simms, Cousin Brucie, The Real Don Steel, Dr. Don Rose, The Weird Beard, Wolfman Jack, Wally Philips, Loman & Barkley, Jack The Bellboy, Doc Downey, Alan Freed, Happy Hare, Dusty Rhodes? What happened to the Summer songs? Where has the exciting contests such as: "Cash Call", "The Last Contest", "The Big Kahuna Beach Patrol", winning a Backyard Cookout, gone? Was it a dream, or did I imagine that Summer used to mean "fun" on the radio? Listening to radio programming today makes it seem that "fun" was so very long ago. AWW-GUST! What a "fun" month to get exciting programming started. There is still a chance to turn AWW-GUST into AWE-GUST! An awe inspiring, ho-daddy, meet ya at the Stones concert, type of month! I mean, there’s absolutely little competition. Baseball is struggling through it’s remaining forty-five days of it’s regular season. Football is starting it’s boring pre-season. Presidential candidates are blathering and pandering for votes a year ahead of time. Television is still in re-runs, and hoping that there will be a "Last Comic Standing". Sorry. No "American Idol" until January. "Survivor" is weeks away-unless you count those of us who manage to make it through this AWW-FUL month! AWW-GUST! A month so-oo AWW-FUL that there’s no Holiday for some time off.(You can bet government employees hate this month). Even songwriters have disdained this hot bothersome month. There was "April In Paris", June is Busting Out All Over", "September Song", but no song about August! Well, Neil Diamond’s album: "Hot August Nights" may be the closest salute we have. Half a month to go before I breathe a sigh of relief. Now, people are heading home from vacations, and some school has already begun in some areas. Astute programmers should already be in "Summer" mode. But, I just don’t hear it, do you? You sure aren’t going to hear any "fun" on the Internet stations either. AWW-GUST! It should be a time for "Pool Parties" and "The Endless Summer". Instead, it’s become a time for a "fool" for an FCC, and music that’s an "Endless Bummer". That’s my RadiOpinion, what’s yours? (By the way, can anyone name a song title with August in it? See, I rest my case).- Gary Allyn