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jtaweekenqefti satmrd4yjpm2m5i37 stlix years fade away as music of youth fills the air driving down the town line that divides durham and york regions just north of stouffville last saturday afternoon i sud denly found myself catapulted some four decades back to a time when quality of life was determined by whether of not you could scrape together a dime for a bottle of coke buddy holly was singing oh boy on the car radio the sun roof was open and i was beating out a rapid rhythm with both hands against the steering wheel i dont normally listen to any am station other than the gold old cbc but freewheeling down the open road on this spectacular june day i felt com pelled to tune in chum 1050 the station that is still playing the same old rock and roll tunes that helped it achieve leg endary status back when i was a kid in the 1950s and 60s in those days i was a school boy with a passion for big league baseball summer holidays and rock stars like elvis presley jerry lee lewis and of course buddy holly and the crickets saturday afternoons would find us walking up bayview avenue just south of eglinton in toronto to pick up the latest chum chart from masons music for the kids in our neighborhood the chum connection was that much more direct since the children of alan waters the pop stations owner attended our school there wasnt a day would go by that one of us wouldnt pester jimmy waters to score us a cou ple of records from his dads station jimmy who has gone on to take over the operations of the station would simply nod his head walk away and never give the nervy requests another moments thought there was another kid in the old neighborhood whos father made his own mark in the record business rick mckim was determined from the earliest stages of his childhood that he would some day be a disc jockey who would spin the records produced by his dads toronto record company phonodisc rick ate breathed and slept rock and roll back in those days and was a walking rock music encyclopedia that passion never waned and has led him from texas to new york in pur suit of his lifelong dream but while rick has never been able to attend any of the old neighborhood reunions held over the past few years it looks like today may be the day i finally get to play catch up with the kid who broke it to me about buddy hollys tragic death back in 1959 rick was to be among the assembled guests at the annual summer solstice party to be held by his younger broth er dave at the mckim property just north of uxbridge this evening from where i live bruce stapley it promises to be yet another one of those unnerving encounters after a hiatus of 30 years where people who grew up together try to pretend they dont even notice the receding hairline the wrinkles and the other ravages of time but as always the recognizable voice and the old telltale mannerisms that never completely disappear will help over come the initial awkwardness within minutes well have brought each other up to 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