OLD SCHOOL #44 Spring Break '73 Part 2

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OLD SCHOOL #44 Spring Break '73 Part 2

Professor Mikey

Mar 28, 2023

^{All right! We are back to wrap up one of the wildest Spring Breaks of the 20th Century. If you haven’t heard Spring Break ‘73 Part One, you can listen to this for what radio professionals call “stand alone content.” Flip just one back in your podcaster so you can hear the segment that has Bowie, T Rex, Dr John, Smoke on the Water.}

Beach preacher attempts to save drunken lost souls.

^{A lot of what we are soaking up has become the canon for Classic Rock Ruin My Music Radio, but they are always too busy giving away tickets to something you don’t care about to offer any context. These songs just get moved around like disc jockeys being reassigned to Cleveland.}

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^{Here in Professor Mikey’s Old School we offer context, unbelievable stories, and the most daring feat of all, whole songs.}

^{So when we left off we’d just heard some island sweetness from the first summer of reggae as far as most of us were concerned. If you subscribe to the newsletter and Retrofit.Substack.Com you got a copy of the complete album released by Lee Scratch Perry and the Upsetters that spring, Blackboard Jungle, a masterpiece of dub. It is also available on the}^{YouTube playlist}^{for these spring break joints.}

^{Spring Break 73 Part 2 starts off on the water also, with the guys who added heat and cheeseburgers to every summer. Then we are off for obscurities, lost motel keys, misplaced pool bags, and all the other sketch stuff that goes down on a normal Spring Break 73 Part 2.}

^{With all this great 1973 music, you might be asking yourself if anything else made news that year. And you could easily answer “YES.”}
^{On January 20 President Nixon was sworn in for a 2nd term he would not finish. The Supreme Court in Roe vs Wade by a 7-2 majority ruled in that the Constitution upholds an individual’s right to privacy and generally protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion.}
^{On that same day Henry Kissinger flew off to Paris to initial the accords that would end the Vietnam War for the United States. And before American newspaper editors could figure a headline for such an historic day, former President Lyndon Johnson died of a heart attack at age 64.}
^{Also in ‘73…}
^{Secretariat became the first horse to win the Triple Crown in 25 years. Billie Jean King won the women’s single title and Wimbledon, then kicked Bobby Riggs ass in the nationally televised “battle of the sexes.” Thomas Pynchon published GRAVITY’S RAINBOW. Kurt Vonnegut wrote Breakfast of Champions. The American Psychiatric Association overturned a 100 year old position by declaring that homosexuality was not a mental illness. American Graffiti was released. And a new NFL rushing record was set by O J Simpson.}