Did the Rock Group Steam ran out of Steam?

Did the one Hit wonder group Steam run out of steam? I guess it depends. I loved their song “(Na Na Hey Hey) Kiss Him Goodbye” and lots of people did back in 1969 when it went number one. And stayed for 2 weeks.
As the name implies “One Hit Wonder” means one song went big. However the group had another single released, but it only went to number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100. Just shy of Top 40 status.
I like “I’ve Gotta Make Love You Me” much better than their No. 1 hit. And our local stations WOHO 1470 and WTTO 1520 must have played it a lot. And I recorded it on my cassette tape recorder and played it a lot also.
Take a listen, you may like it better too.

I recently thought of this almost forgotten song while playing an older cassette tape. I found the 45 RPM record by accident rummaging through piles of records at a record show some 35 plus years ago. Now you can just click and listen.

Gary Lovell
Copyright. 2023

2023 –First Day Western Chorus Frogs Heard in Northwestern Ohio

This is my annual state of the frog pond update.

For over fifty years I have been listening to and recording frog data. So this year I have decided to recap the date the first frog was heard from 50 years ago, along with some other info and /or memories connected with that year and this year’s
new info.
The 2023 frog season has started. With warm  and cold temps alternately teasing frogs and people this February, they did start singing early, for the seventh time since 1972 singing in February. Actually the 7th time since 1976. See below charts for more info.
  Brittani Furlong, a frog enthusiast that I helped count frogs for her school project at Irwin Prairie awhile back heard chorus frogs on February 23, when the Toledo Area got 62° F. My friend Randy heard them yesterday on February 26 in his backyard on Wolfinger Road a short trip from Irwin Prairie Preserve. Brittani said the manager of Irwin Prairie Preserve had heard frogs on February 9, which would be earliest since 1972. I heard them on the 28th and Spring Peepers were out already too. Happy Spring! Below is a link to the original story with the chart of all past first dates.
   Fifty Years ago: On March 12, 1973 my late friend Jim Cendrowski and I officially heard the first singing frogs of the season. My notes do NOT tell me where. But that year it could have been along the railroad tracks that parallel Detroit Avenue, or the wetlands at Stickney and Matzinger Roads. The new location that year was a huge pond in an area that later became Greenwood Park on Gage Road in West Toledo off Alexis road across from the GM Plant. Later in the season spring peepers would be so loud that you would get a headache in 10 minutes.
   Later that week on the 17th of March we, as in NW Ohio, had a seven inch snowfall.
   It was a Saturday and I usually was allowed to drive to church for Mass which was barely a mile away. (I was still a fairly new driver). Because of the snow my parents would not let me drive so I walked. And I discovered I really like walking in the snow, and I have walked many snowfalls since. And my notes said the frogs were back out by the 20th of March.

2022–First Day of Western Chorus Frogs are Heard in Northwest Ohio.

Gary Lovell
Copyright. 2023

Early Spring at Irwin Prairie

Two spring peepers singing.

I visited Irwin Prairie Preserve on February 28 and March 1, 2023.
I can’t recall ever seeing that much water there. Many pictures follow: boardwalks underwater, water creeping up on the road and several trees blown over from storms this year, their root bundle still intact.
Several of my frog contacts have heard western Chorus frogs at the preserve already. I heard two on Feb. 28. On March 1 after dark I heard two spring peepers at Irwin. Probably the earliest I have ever heard them as they are usually out singing a couple weeks after first chorus frogs.
   March 1st starts the Metroparks frog survey at Oak Openings. I stopped by that night no frogs. I am guessing because of the tree cover the sun doesn’t get the frogs moving like at the open area of Irwin Prairie.  In the coming month the peepers will sound like what’s on the accompanying video.
   Anyone interested in monitoring frogs please contact Meredith.Busic@metroparkstoledo.com. They have added two new locations never before monitored for frogs: Secor Park and the new Cannonball Metropark that has the Cannonball bike trail passing by it.

Link to article on First Day Chorus Frogs appear in NW Ohio: https://unusualperspectivesbyme.wordpress.com/2019/02/25/link-to-1st-day-frogs-are-heard-in-toledo-ohio/

Gary Lovell
Copyright. 2023