IT’S FRIDAY…FRIIDDDDAAYYYYY

Anyone remember that song that played on Atlanta area stations not very many years ago? It was the 5 o’ clock whistle. It wasn’t a song as much as it was a hodgepodge of various songs that were written for one sole purpose: The Weekend.

Well the last station in Atlanta to play it, to my knowledge, was Z93. This was before it went to crap and turned into DaveFM. Sorry, I hate DaveFM. Naming a station after Dave Matthews… really? Seriously, they played Dave Matthews for 24 hours after the new station identity went live. I was sorely disappointed! More than that, the whistle was gone!

At one point I had downloaded it from the Z93 website and burned it to CD.  Over the years it got shoveled around and eventually I misplaced it.  Perhaps it is still somewhere, on a CD, or something.  Point is, I can’t find it.

All around us, the intersections of space and time are conjoined in the Cosmos

I thought a Google search would promptly alleviate this.  I was wrong.  I kept finding old songs and forums of people saying they remember the good ol’ days.  Screw that!  I want to download the flippin’ song.  Ok, it was free from Z93.  Someone else surely downloaded it and has it for download elsewhere.

Page after page after page of old song lyrics by Glenn Miller, I had given up.  That is, until recently.  I stumbled upon one page by chance that had a version of the song that was mostly in tact.  I downloaded it and even though the sound quality wasn’t super I was satisfied.  Also missing was the entire “Gimme some lovin’” by the Spencer Davis Group.  Shanty by Jonathan Edwards was also in poor condition.  The other songs would suffice.

I used a couple of Zune credits to buy those two songs in MP3 format and patched them in and recreated a masterpiece.  IT’S ALIVE!  Perhaps with more time I can patch in other songs but the voice of the angry, yet elated, fellow yelling “FRIDAY!” is irreplaceable.

So, from me to you, here is the Five o’ Clock Whistle in it’s, almost, original format (if you lived in Atlanta).  That is, this is the best I can remember it.  It might have ended with the guy yelling instead of the song.  Whatever, it works for me.  It’s free and sounds decent.  It makes me want to yell “I FOUND IT… I FOUUUNNDDD IT…I FFFFOUUNNNnnnDDDdd…. it!”

Five o’ clock whistle

IT’S FRIDAY!!111

Does anyone remember that song?  The 5 o’ clock whistle?  Back when DAVEFM was Z93 (R.I.P.) they did it every Friday at 5pm.  It wasn’t them originally though.  It had a long long running and I know nothing about the history of the song, actually, more of a medley.  I must find that song…  I had it on a CD at one point.  CURSES!

Last week we were all sick.  This week was recovery mode.  I had a tight knot in my stomach and still kinda do, for a couple of days.  I don’t feel stressed but I know that I am.  With regular work, family and side work, woo.  I’m even having to turn away sidework.  Oddly I don’t get much reward from sidework.  I get some extra $$ but it hardly seems worth it when I have to shew away my four year old.  I feel particularly bad when I do that.

The other night he asked me if I wanted to come upstairs and play Zelda with him.  That was the first time he’d ever exclusively asked me to do something with him.  I mean he’s asked me to do things but just the way he asked.  Instead of heading to the pit to work I went upstairs and played Zelda.  It was totally worth it.

L