Red Rubber Ball - The Cyrkle - RadioDAZZ Music Break

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It's simple. A wonderful performance (live, in concert) of a terrifically harmonious and highly catchy rock and roll tune by the group called the Cyrkle. It was a Top 40 pop radio hit. As you walked along Jones Beach, inhaling the fragrance of the ocean, Coppertone suntan lotion, and some acrid cigarette smoke, every transistor radio glistening in the summer sun was playing this song. People were tanning (it was considered healthy then), and lying on beach blankets.

In fact, by noon the beach was so incredibly crowded with blankets of all different colors and designs, each blanket almost touching the ones surrounding it, that when you looked back up at the shore from the water, it was as if a giant multicolored quilt had been placed over the pure, white sand. It seemed to hold us all together...

The song is "Red Rubber Ball," and it was my favorite song in sixth grade. I even listed it under "Favorite Song" in my sixth grade autograph book. It was an amazing year.

Gerald Thompson, my sixth grade teacher, told me that I had a "gift for writing" and encouraged me to write short stories and poems. After going through years of feelings of utter uselessness (I was constantly failing at my classes in school, being branded as either "dumb," a "daydreamer," or "learning disabled," and was always being threatened with being left back a year by my teachers), this man, with his insightfulness, sensitivity and kind words gave me a new lease on life.

It was the first year I ever received straight "A"s on my report card instead of the usual borderline or "F" grades. He believed in me so strongly that he actually convinced me to believe in myself. And I worked to prove both of us right.

Listen to "Red Rubber Ball," which I dedicate to my sixth grade teacher and first mentor, Gerald Thompson.

Teachers can change the course of entire lives. A teacher saved mine. Maybe one saved yours. Don't ever forget to say "thank you." While some teachers have no right to even associate with youngsters, others are dedicated custodians and trustees of the world's future, and of its most precious assets -- our children.

Click and listen to this carnival of a song, with its wonderful harmony (thirds) and simple message.

RED RUBBER BALL - By Cyrkle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbDKN0dk54M



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-DZ

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