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I READ THE NEWS TODAY...
1910: Boy Scouts
of America was founded.
I'm sure there's LOTS of boys with great stories about their adventures in the BSA. Mine are not so great.
I never made it to be a BOY SCOUT-I was just a cub scout. Not a very good one. I never was much at making things that require carpentry. And I had "no dad" at the time to help out. Our den leader was a great cook, so pack meetings were always delicious but rather uneventful, otherwise. Too often, we'd go through the meeting protocol, etc., break for snack and adjourn early. The rest of my scout peers would head out to the basketball hoop in the driveway but being the spaz I was, I would volunteer to help Mrs.Yacuzzo clean up after the meeting.
I was so relieved when I was allowed to quit the scouts after a year.
But there was one highlight. We had a talent show. It was 1964. In the spring, I believe-or maybe early fall. Anyways, sometime after February 9th of that year.
My mother had a cashmere beret that I found made a perfect "black-haired Beatle-wig." My mother was taking guitar lessons with my step-dad and they owned an acoustic guitar. I used it to trace it's shape on a piece of corrugated cardboard. I then colored the "guitar" to look like George Harrison's Gretsch. I owned one Beatles record at the time-a 45 rpm of "I Want To Hold Your Hand." I chose the B-side, "I Saw Her Standing There" as the sound track for my talent show entry. With my cardboard guitar and my Beatle-wig, I lip-synced "Standing There," moving to each Beatles' "location on stage" to do their part at a certain part of the song. I mimicked John, Paul and George's "stance" as I had seen on the Ed Sullivan Show and Beatle-card images (John with legs at shoulder's width, Paul with toes-touching, George with foot-tapping). And two rulers served as Ringo's drumsticks as I assumed his "Hunched over the drumkit" posture.
I recall it was a big hit-I won first place.
