These are all GREAT LOCAL places to visit.  Windy and I have been to these places and had a ball.  In case your looking for something different to do this week, here you go!

Amish Country - Holmes County

Mapleside Farms - Brunswick

Play LOCAL Golf - Area

Carle's Bratwurst - Bucyrus

Szlay's - CVNP

Wynn's Weekend Watch -  Unstoppable   (2010 GREAT Movie)  Worth a re-watch! Some of it filmed in Massilon and Brewster

Cinema Safe – Great site for movie theater procedures   (Site)

Box Office - The War With Grandpa  -   3.6 million – losest since 1988   (Gorillas In The Mist) 

Netflix - Has 17 new Christmas movies this holiday season.  (Story)

Tyra Banks - Says a Coyote Ugly sequel or TV series is in the works.   (Story)

Gal Gadot - Will play Cleopatra in an upcoming film.  (Story) 

Coming To America 2 - Will skip theaters and go straight to Amazon! 

The 2001 Nicole Kidman - Horror movie The Others is getting a remake   (Story)

This Weekend – Check out my Country Music Memory Lane (link)

Jon Pardi was featured on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert's #PlayAtHome series on Friday (October 9). He performed his current hit single "Ain't Always The Cowboy"...

Christine sent me a note this week asking if one of her favs, Olivia Newton-John was "country" before she knew her from the movie, Grease.  She heard from a family member she was.  Well, yes -  she was at first, and was very successful. Christine, a whole lot of people like you didn't meet ONJ until Grease. 

Let It Shine - Let There Be No Mistake - She Was Country!

ONJ has a long and involved story, but this article will deal with her country days.  When she was a young singer, she charted a ton of songs on the country chart, and those songs also charted "pop."  That's kind of how it was in those days for some.  ONJ was hard to define, so all kinds of stations played her music.  She was a CMA and ACM nominee and winner in the mid 1970's.  Her music then, would be considered "very" country today. 

Big Breakthrough Country Hit!

She recorded for many years before she finally hit it with Let Me Be There in 1973, a song I love.  It was a very big song on many charts including top 5 country.  ONJ was a real favorite of many genres then.  She of course from Australia, but she somehow became America's Sweetheart.  Everyone loved her. 

Big Song And A Big Year For Her!

If You Love Me, Let Me Know was a big, big song and other country singles came too. Please, Mister Please, Sam, I Honestly Love You,  Let It Shine and Come On Over, (I LOVE THAT SONG)  all charted very well country all in the top five.  Have You Never Been Mellow was a big hit, and her duet with John Denver, Fly Away was was too.  But things like this happen, ONJ would leave country in time, and become a big pop and movie star after a few years.  She then racked up 10 #1 pop songs, including 7 in a row.  

Great Country Song!

Grease, and a few other movies, and TV appearances made her a gigantic star, then the whole Physical phase in the early 1980's with a complete reinvention, attempting to shed the goody two-shoes image.  And depending on who you ask, it worked.

This Song Went To #5 - Written by the Bee Gees!  The End Of The Country Run Pretty Much....

So yes, before you may have known her, Olivia Newton-John had a whole other career before millions of new fans met her in a very different way.  I loved her music in the early days, and played it on many country stations around the country for years.

Even This Grease Classic -  Has A Hint Of Country In It!

She was in your favorite movie and that's great, but let's remember we had her first. 

Olivia Newton-John is now 72 years old -  She is currently battling cancer for the the third time, and we wish her the best.

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Steve Wariner

Shenandoah

Patty Loveless

Windy and I had an early birthday celebration (mine) in Amish Country this weekend and we had a ball.  Really fun to step back in time a bit, and see things you don't see every day in Akron.

Parking is a bit different there!

We stayed in a real nice cabin, ate some terrific food, shopped and explored.  We basically were in Berlin, but as Saturday closed, we ended up at the Breitenbach Winery in Dover and had a blast there too.  Plus, as you can see, we bought a whole lot of cheese at a market with a rubber cow head. Perfect!

Berlins are everywhere!

So close and so fun.  Take a weekend and visit Amish Country, not everyone is lucky enough to have it so close.

Great cabin!  #WeekendswithWindy

Winery - GREAT PLACE!

Brothers Osborne released their latest album Skeletons on Friday and this morning they talked to Good Morning America about their third studio album... 

ONLY ON @GMA: Six-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriters @brothersosborne talk about their third studio album #Skeletons.https://t.co/coSPNqsTZf pic.twitter.com/H7DcCB0UU8

— Good Morning America (@GMA) October 12, 2020

They also performed one of the songs off the album called "Hatin' Somebody", you can click here to watch! 

This DIY pumkin planter is the perfect addition to your fall decor. Simple to make, and you can easily make it your own with a varitey of fall flowers! Wouldn't this be a great gift idea too?!? Here's the how to from Better Homes & Gardens: 

Wynn's Weekend Watch -  The Martian  (Number one 5 years ago today) 

Cinema Safe – Great site for movie theater procedures (Site)

New This Week -  100% Wolf

Word Is - Wonder Woman 1984 reportedly skipping the theaters and going straight to streaming. (Story)

 
536 Regal Cinema - Theaters have temporarily shut down, Regal is the second-largest movie chain in the country.  (Story)

Box Office - New Mutants #1

Hocus – Pocus - #2 at the movies 30 years after its original release   (Remember This?)

All Five Kenny Rogers - The Gambler movies, as well as Coward of the County, are out this week on DVD as a box set.  (Story)

This Weekend – Check out my Country Music Memory Lane (link)

Brad Paisley was a virtual guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Tuesday (Octobber 6) and he talked to her about how the video for "No I In Beer" came to be, and how he didn't get his talent from his dad... 

Nancy asked me to remember one of her favs from a while ago, Steve Wariner.  I proudly played all his songs, as there was a time he could really do no wrong. His list of accomplishments is huge, but we will hit the highlights.  He was also a gigantic favorite with young fans in the early 1980's when we needed young fans.  That was a great gift he gave us then.  He was one of the artists that helped me fall in love with Country Music!

His First Big Hit -  1980   Your Memory

Steve Wariner is an amazing musician, singer, writer and about everything else.  He got a break when he was a band member for the late Dottie West, which at that time was a really good gig.  Eventually he had a solo career in the 1980's that was very successful, and totally enviable.  Fans loved him, and he's another artist that seldom, if ever, released a mediocre song.  In fact, he peeled off ten number one songs in his early success, and had a bunch of great songs that didn't hit number one.  He was one of our biggest hit makers!

One Of The Best Country Songs Of The 1980's  - Smash #1  (Ronnie Milsap Passed On This Song)

He recorded 18 albums, and had about 50 singles.  Lynda, Some Fools Never Learn, Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, Life's Highway, these are just a few of his biggest songs.  He also recorded duets with Glen Campbell, Garth, Nicolette Larsen, Diamond Rio, and Brad Paisley. His career has been incredible. 

Kansas City Lights - Off That First Album, Country Gold

He was playing bass for Chet Atkins, when he released his breakout album and in 1980 (self titled) and it was a smash.  His first single, Your Memory, a big song, followed by All Roads Lead To You #1, Kansas City Lights, By Now, all did very well on the charts, and a star was born. (He left Atkins band)  That first album was loved, as it is as good a breakthrough album as you will ever hear.  Over the next decade, Wariner was on fire, as fans loved him and so did radio.

This Helped Wariner Shift Gears  - GREAT Song!

Steve Wariner was as played an artist as we had then. His sound was sophisticated, refined, and was just flat out great.  Wariner, in the early days was not a traditionalist, but his music was amazing.  His sound would evolve as the format did, and his music and image did as well.  Very few, if any artist did as good a job as changing as he did. He was commercially born during Urban Cowboy, and then was led into the New Traditionalists, and beyond.  What he did was remarkable, as others were stubbornly left behind.

Lynda - This Was #1 -As He Evolved With The Format

That was a great move on his part.  But by the end of the 1980's things cooled down some on the charts. Then a real resurgence in the late 1990's gave Wariner a different kind of success. A duet with Garth, and he turned to writing great songs for artists like Garth, Clint Black, and others.  Then he recorded the gem of his career in many fans eyes, Holes In The Floor Of Heaven in 1998 that won about every single award you can win. It is still a huge favorite with many fans, some who are not even familiar with the Wariner of the early 1980's. If that's you, you've have a real treat ahead of you if you look for his music, this article will give you a great place to start.

This Song Is A Classic - Multi-Award Winner

He has reinvented himself many times, and that's smart.  Writer, master musician, insanely great guitarist, singer, collaborator, ambassador, Grammy winner, awards nominee and winner, and flat out star.  Steve Wariner is a great example of being nimble in an ever changing business. And for those who are not really familiar with him, if you Google him and spend some time listening, you are about to discover a new favorite of yours I have no doubt.  I was a big fan and have a ton of respect for every ounce of incredible talent he has.

 #1 With Garth

Steve Wariner is a star - Period. Flat out star in Country Music!

Other Recent Memory Lane Articles - Check them out!

Shenandoah

That Ain't Country

Patty Loveless

Eddie Rabbitt