The Cars had an incredible amount of radio play for their first few albums and the New Wave stars took the stage at Wollman Rink this Friday night in August.

Yet another of those Central Park Concerts that I have no particular recollection of but I have a brief story that likely did not happen on this particular evening.

There was a morning talk show host named Stanley Siegel who was quite popular in the New York metropolitan area in the 1970’s and was most known for having his psychologist sessions on the air. Mr. Siegel left everything on the table to create interesting television and the show was quite entertaining as he was obviously a bit of a character. It was as if Woody Allen was given a talk show and his real life was an open book to the viewers. Well there was one particular evening as I was hustling down 5th Avenue to get to Wollman Rink for what I think was s blues concert that I never got in to, when I saw Stanley Siegel walking toward me. Stanley was a suit and tie sort of guy and I would have had my shoulder length hair swaying as we passed. I loved his show and shouted “Hey Stanley love the show”. He asked where I was headed to and I told him to Central Park for the concert. We made a connection albeit brief as neither one of us ever broke stride. A New York Coty moment in time to be sure with many more to come. 

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