Suzanne Mccormick: Fill & Download for Free

On New Year’s Eve 1979, I was kissed by dozens of women and was given free Seagram’s & Seven for hours. The women were from three generations, I was working with one of the first Elvis impersonator bands in Chicago in what had been a dive bar named Laurel & Hardy’s at 63rd & Hamlin.That night, a few people had extra duties, and I volunteered to stand by a box and alternate the flashing lights on the main performer. The box itself looked like something from the set of a cheap sci-fi film. But it left me in a spot where I could be kissed from any direction, the dance floor, the bar stools, those shoved between the bar stools. Sure, there were guys there, out on the prowl, some were fans of Elvis.We had played there off and on since the summer, and Roy the Owner had made enough money to really advertise the event. He ended up buying a lot of inventory from another dive bar, The Aztec Inn, halfway through the night. The cops made a few bucks by letting the place stay open until 4AM.The way 20 year old Wayne saw it—oh, and I felt like a fugitive because at midnight the drinking age was raised from 19 to 21 in Illinois—was that the main draw was from women who were my mother’s age. And once I got rid of that creepy thought, I figured, OK, their daughters came with them for kicks, maybe even some older aunts or even grandmothers. But certainly three generations.I free-associate that night with the television shows from that era. The younger women all looked like Marsha from The Brady Bunch or Chrissie from Three’s Company. Maureen McCormick and Suzanne Sommers. And they all wore Babe cologne. Remember Babe?I thought I was getting my wallet stolen and I turned to see a woman who looked like Suzanne Pleshette, Bob’s wife Emily on The Bob Newhart Show, either trying to dry hump me or simply push my head down so she could get a better view of Sideburns.The grandmothers were the darlings, though. The ones who were young when 50s Elvis was just starting out. Wearing their best jewelry and evening gowns, something that amazed me considering what the bar looked like during the day.The place went nuts at midnight, the band improvised on “Auld Lang Syne” and the women just kept on with the kissing. They’d get a scarf from the impersonator, make out with him, and then there was me with no musical instrument, just some box off the set of Time Tunnel. And a few cigar-chomping guys shook my hand or slapped my back, telling me how happy the band made theire wives. And therefore, themselves. Wink wink.Within six months the band was no more. Most of us went off to college, the impersonator eventually went to jail for distribution of cocaine. He had snagged a high-paying gig as a doorman at the condominium where then-Mayor Jane Byrne lived.I look back on that short span of time and that one single night as if it was an anomaly. This was a time when Elvis was still being mourned and it was totally insane. I still have cassette tapes of several evening sets, but I don’t need to listen to those to remember that one single night, soaked in sweat at the start of winter.

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I’m a huge fan of the cedar-plank seasoning available from McCormick. It just gives the salmon such an incredible taste.Of course, we also like dill on sauteed salmon, sometimes basil-butter. Our best trick is to sear the salmon on both sides and then finish off in a hot oven. The salmon is exquisitely moist on the inside with a nice crust on the outside.My favorite pairing with salmon is oven-roasted asparagus, plus oven-baked sweet potato. Sometimes, instead of the asparagus and/or the sweet potato, we place the salmon on a bed of sauteed spinach with garlic.Yum, yum.Here’s a photo of one of our recent salmon dinners.