I once had a friend that was the light of my life, he was the sun in my world, he was light in my dark world..........I hope that he hears this and knows I think of him soooo very often, and that if things were different I would say over and over.......GEE WHIZ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxciqi6uC1k

I will always love you......

That's very sweet of you. Carla Thomas is a good choice. You can't go wrong with any performer from Stax records. Memphis soul.

Wow, got to love this song, Carla Thomas is a very good singer. Back in the day, wow, to think back to the early sixties, what great memories.

I once had a guy too, he was the sweetest thing this side of heaven, and I too think of him often and all I can say is......Geeeeee Whizzzzz.

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Many of the songs I enjoy are based on my life with my Angel, we had four great years together and if not for my foolishness we would have had many more years together. I still get teary eyed when I hear "our song" the words were written for just us, or so it seems. Music can heal the soul, yet it can't wash away the memories.

Carla Thomas, great voice, she still performs and of course, can't get away without singing this wonderful song, gee whizzzzz, look at his eyes, gee whiz my my what a guy, he's awful nice its paradise, but all I can say issssss gee whizzzzzz. Takes me back in time.

Donna, there are soooo many songs that have meaning to all of us, some more than others. Sometimes when I hear a song from the past, I can remember what I was doing or who I was with, I can remember songs that my Angel sang, where she was and what concert or studio she was in. The 50's 60's was a totally different time, we had less, and I think we were better off because of it, as a very good friend of mine has said, we had each other, and nothing can compare to the friendships that were made back then....so all I can say issss: Geee, Whizzzzz.

The same goes for me, when I hear a song, I remember back in the Bronx the crowd I hung around with, the guys with their slicked back hair, those white T-Shirts where they'd roll their cigs into the sleeve, black chico pants (tight of course) something out of Grease.

Songs that bring back memories: Runaround Sue, Sherry, You Belong to Me....ahhh memories, life is made of memories.

Many great songs came out in the 60's, Dion had left the Belmonts and struck out on his own, he had many hits, The Duprees were one of the last groups in the 60's to sing doo*** I think 1963 when they recorded Have You Heard. The group performing today as The Duprees have no original members. There are soooo many groups still performing today, it is a gift of love more than anything else for them, in appreciation of their loyal fans who spend good money to relive their youth, remembering that first kiss or that guy that made her smile, or the jerk that loved, lied and then walked away from someone who loved him beyond life, right Johnnyboy. Yes, Joanie the memories will never die, they just fade a little.

I have some very good memories of my time growing up in the Bronx. Hung around with both guys and girls, we went to Friday night dances, went to the Paradise, went to Poe Park, the zoo and the park near Tolentine, Devoe Park. We'd take trains downtown, window shopping at Macy's and Gimbels. Luckily I am still friends with some of my high school friends, and have lost touch with most of the guys.

Joanie my time in the Bronx was consumed with being with my Angel and working. We spent every minute together, we had some good times together, we used to go to City Island have Shrimp, fries and sodas. We'd visit my extended family, aunts/uncles/brothers. My whole family loved her, especially my siste Nicki, Nicki was older than me, had three daughters but she adored my Angel. My older brother and his wife adored her as well, she and I were their youngest Godfather/mother, little Jose (now grown) loved his auntie. We'd go to dances at the high schools also when she would be singing, parties. I left NY after we broke up, I couldn't stay there without her it was toooo sad and hurtful for me.

Jose, lets me honest here, you had the best of two worlds, you had her love and her music that put you both in the limelight, you loved it. The parties, the press, the photos. You had it all, didn't you? You're the one that messed everything up, even I helped in that, of which I was forgiven years later, but still I was guilty. Yep, you left NY and those close to you know why you left NY. Poor Jose, you will live with the guilt the same as Johnny Boy will.
You both, loved, hurt and destroyed a beautiful soul, my friend and best friend ever. Only you can live with the guilt, as will Johnny Boy.

Hold it one minute there Paradise, one thing has nothing to do with the other. You did things that best friends shouldn't do, you tried in your worst way to break us up, you were upset that she "outshined" you in every way. Come on, you were so jealous you just couldn't stand to see her so happy. You almost destroyed her music too, but she put a stop to that before you were able to really do a number.

She knew you for what you were and she still loved you as a friend, even with all the s*it you tried to pull, she still came running every time "you" *ucked up and would straighten it all out. So don't say that I did this or that if it were up to me, she would have dumped your *ss 40 yrs ago. Don't go playing this all high and mighty.....it doesn't work.

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Now now Jose lets not get testy, we've all done things in "our" lives that were mistakes, right?
Now some more than others, right? My mistakes are not as bad as yours, right? Your Angel was a bigger, better person than I could ever be, she proved it over and over, still she remained by my side as a friend. I admired her so much for all that she had, even as kids she always had the new clothes, jewerly, the latest records, the parties. She had the wonderful family etc.
Still I could call her and if I needed her she was right there, whether I was right or wrong she was my protector. She dumped your a ss why? Thought so, you don't dare say why, hmmm big shot. Lets not get into the why or who did what, lets just remember K for the wonderful person she was and the talent that she had, and gave with each performance.

I'm not testy, I'm tired of you trying to take the all the glory, saying you were her best friend, true she saved your butt so many times, I often wondered why she went to such great lengths. Like her defending this moron of a guy she fell for, telling me oh he's going to leave his wife, move here and we're going to be happy.....sure right, that clown had no intention of leaving his wife....how she could be soo blind, like her friendship with you, you did your darnest to hurt her several times, and even when she caught you, she forgave you. Thats how she was, forgiving, yet this stupid clown Jonnnn with all his church going, couldn't give her a break, he didn't know what was going on, and he just ASSUMED whatever he thought. He offered no explanation of why he left, he refused to e-mail her, refused to call or her call him........he's a scum bag from New Jersey......right Johnnyboy.

I get sooo **** when I think of how he played her......I want to yank his head off, better yet, tell his whole "f" family what a scumbag he really is.

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Jose, whatever happened in the past, is just that the past. I often think of K. and knowing her as I did, I bet if she were alive and he called,wrote or whatever, I think she'd take him back in a heartbeat. They had something special as she once said, something she hadn't felt in a long time, I think that she really wanted to believe that he was being a gentleman and wanted to believe all that he said, its not for us to judge, maybe it would have worked out, maybe not. She didn't leave him, he left her for whatever reason, maybe someday if he finds it in his heart, maybe he'll let us in on the "why", or he'll take it to his grave. He hurt someone close to us, we hurt, but at the same time we have precious memories, as does he.Just maybe he holds them close as we do. Everytime I write about them both I fill up with tears, to think of the lose, that didn't have to be.

Please don't think that this guy has a heart,if he had one, he could have told her, he was leaving or he had enough and didn't want to play anymore, instead he let her sit for weeks writing e-mails morning noon and night to him pleading for him to just tell her he was alright. Did he answer, NO he didn't no explanation of why???? Thats what bugs my ***** that he wouldn't tell her a thing, I have every single e-mail she ever wrote to that bas**rd and he thought he knew what was going on he didn't have a clue, I knew more about what was going down, she called me when she got back from NY.....she needed him more than anything, she was scared beyond anything I ever saw, she needed his support,his love and all she got was grief.......yes, I know how you feel, because I shed tears everyday when I think of this lowlife scumbag living his life, having a stupid wife to feed him, talk to him, and he couldn't even give her the time of day, wait someday, he WILL get his.

Jose, there are some nutty people out there, and you have to be careful, I'm sure that your Angel was, but from what I"ve read, in the end he wasn't a very nice person. He knows what he did and he knows that he will be judged the same so you and I. I hope that some other poor women doesn't have to go through this.

I'm sure that he's still playing games with ladies on the internet, he thinks hes the Don Juan of the internet. He has no idea what he did to my Angel, and what hurts is he didn't care. Here he is a married man, with a stupid wife and family and he gets upset because she dared to speak to another man, how stupid is that. He's the one married, cheating on his wife and he's upset. I wish with all my heart that someday he is found out and his family says enough and out the door he goes.

Maybe it will happen or maybe it won't. He is he one that has to look in he mirror at himself everyday. Maybe that was his plan all along, play her for awhile, then dump her to find someone new. From what you told me, he was playing mind games with her near the end. Hours of phone calls, calling her names, hanging up, then calling her back, apologizing, a complete nut case, wasn't he. Maybe still is. lol. Wonder how his wife puts up with him, she must be a saint. Yes, he will get his turn.

Donna, all I can say is that he started this whole thing,he contacted her,he wrote to her, she thought it was great that he loved her music and she was happy to be friends, he pushed it and before long he had her believing that they would have a life together. Reading nearly 600 e-mails hers/his, he was good, he wrote beautiful letters and I must say meaningful, very convincing, yet in the end he turned on her like a vicious animal, I wonder if he is vicious like that to his stupid wife and sons. I wonder indeed.