Thanks for the Memories

In this Grateful Season, I get to count a lot of blessings -- including a friendship that began before grade school and still thrives.

In August, I spent four glorious days with my dear friend, Mary - she and I share a birthday and we celebrated 50 years of fun and friendship at her mountain home in the High Sierras. Lots of hiking, loads of laughs and a few bottles of good wine.

Fun in Heidelberg, 2013

Mary and her lab, Marco in Mammoth, 2014

Before "Valley Girls" was a thing, there was us -- loving the sun, the sand and the songs and living a charmed life in Chatsworth in  LA's San Fernando Valley. My gift to my Sweet Forever Friend was this -- The Songs the Summer Sings -- because nothing says "Thanks for all the memories" like a cheesy, 70s-style pop tune.

The Songs the Summer Sings

words and music by Erin Friedman

Tires spinnin’ on a canyon road

Valley girls head out for the coast

Sing along to the radio

Tuned to 93

Zuma 7 was the promised land

Endless Summer layin’ out on the sand

Perfect soundtrack to the perfect tan

Were The Songs the Summer Sings

CHORUS:

We knew all the words

To all The Songs the Summer Sings

California girls

With California dreams

We were wrong about a lot of things:

Fast cars, bad boys, sunscreen

But we were right about

The Songs the Summer Sings 

                               

 Goodbye to the Yellow Brick Road

Beegees, Beach Boys, and Rolling Stones

They said “It’s Only Rock and Roll”

But it was everything

It was a cruise out on Van Nuys

Tunes for scopin’ out the guys

Fire drills at the long red lights

To The Songs the Summer Sings

(chorus)

We were straight-A, honor rolls girls

But from June until September

Shed our Pleasant Valley Sunday world

Making summers to remember

(chorus)

We were wrong about Annie Green Springs

And Dittos saddleback jeans

But we were right about

The Songs the Summer Sings