Free the Freeze!

Once upon a time when I was a single man I would often wake myself up to Al Green's "Let's Stay Together". Obviously, the words were in no way related to my then relationship status, but it sounded good and it made you happy and got you going. Then I fell in love and got engaged and married.

It's so easy loving you

At some point in our marriage I informed the wife that perhaps as a way to help us wake up in the morning we should listen to and/or "do " "The Freeze". In case you don't know, "The Freeze" is a song made popular by the visually impaired, Country-Western crossover sensation, Ronnie Milsap.

The song is accompanied by a line dance. It is very popular at proms, graduation parties, festivals, street dances and weddings. Please do not confuse "The Freeze" with Clarence Carter's "Strokin'" which is another very popular line dance/song which is usually performed by underage girls and their mothers at high school dances. Apparently, "Strokin'" is about the fornications of elderly black folks.

Okay, so hopefully you're all familar with Ronnie Milsap's version of "The Freeze" and like I was saying the wife and I half jokingly/half seriously suggest to one another from time to time that we should perform and/or listen to "The Freeze" at moments of stress or at times when you have trouble waking up, like when the time changes. Well, we just had a time change and the wife got up way earlier than I did and as I struggled to get wake up I could sort of make out some noise from our bathroom, If you don't want me to... as my body and ears finally awoke I realized she had fulfilled our dream of having "The Freeze" choregraphed to a particular moment in our life. However, I noticed that the familiar strain, Don’t tease me... Try to please me didn't sound quite as it should. Once I was fully awake, the wife reminded me that we had previously attempted to find the Ronnie Milsap version of this song and discovered that it could not be found due to the fact that apparently a bit of rift existed between Mr. Milsap and the person who owned the rights to the song. Because of this dispute it is very difficult, if not impossible to find the Milsap version therefore, she had a knock-off version downloaded to her i-pod.

A bit more research revealed that song's writer is one certain Warren Storm a native of Abbeville Louisiana and the purported godfather of the "Pop Swamp" genre.

Here's what we have to do: we have to do, we have to find Mr. Storm and petition him to release the Ronnie Milsap version of "The Freeze". I am proposing a daring and bold iniative which we will refer to as "Free The Freeze!" We need all the help we can get. First, we need several cases of Miller Lite. Line dancers love two things, one is "The Freeze" and the other is Miller Lite. If we can get enough line dancers full of enough Miller Lite I think we can raise substanial funds. With the funds we can establish a website, http://www.freethefreeze.com/ With a website we can pretty much do anything and by anything I mean that we can potentially antagonize the obviously litigous Mr. Storm. Who's with me?

If you are unfamilar with the song, the lyrics are found at the link below and are of course attributed to Ronnie Milsap.

http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/92408.html

post script: the author has made no attempts to verfiy that an actual disptue exists between Mr. Storm and Mr. Milsap, nor can the author explain why this song is apparently available to every single DJ in the State of Louisiana, but cannot be found on i-tunes.