Camp Zoe Memories
The Music Scene
Music provided a lot of entertainment at Camp Zoe. We made our own music during the sing-along. When we added acoustic guitar it was vespers time. If we threw in a hi-fi stereo system and some records one started a dance. Jam boxes showed up in 1980. Many counselors toted their hi-fi systems to camp in the 1970s.
I learned important musical lessons at Camp Zoe. I learned the words to "Blowin' In The Wind" for vespers in 1976. That same summer, the girls in Cabin III (ages 13-15) serenaded me to the tune of "Hey Big Spender". It embarrassed me but I loved the attention. 1977 was a big year for the Marshall Tucker Band at camp. Counselor Tino Trova taught us the words to "Heard It In a Love Song" and we sang it as a group as we hiked through the woods.
The big songs in the summer of 1978 were "Highway Song" by Blackfoot, "Turn to Stone" by E.L.O. and anything by the Steve Miller Band. The girls in camp offered "The Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. I" and Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" albums. In Tent Cabin we played a stereo 8-track, turntable combination. Many of us brought cassette players with songs recorded from radio.
Not every tape in my collection was a rock-n-roll classic. 
Somehow the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack found its way into my footlocker in 1979. I think it slipped in by accident. Disco invaded the dances during this period. "Disco Inferno" was popular with everyone. Even maintenance man Carl Warren boogied to that number.
Most of music I listened to in 1980 was classic rock. Camper Kevin Alexander brought his copy of "Hot Rocks" by the Rolling Stones. Camper Kathy Marshall liked The Beatles. We rocked out to Led Zeppelin's "Physical Graffiti" during rest hour.
Sometimes the counselors were on their own musical wavelength. Kevin Dodge and Boyer Barner sang "Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" by Waylon and Willie for a full summer. Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" became the anthem of counselor's work week one year.
Counselor Lori Dodge recalled these musical memories:
Anything from [the] Rocky Horror Picture Show. I'd never heard of it back in Gardner, Kan.,
but every kid from St. Louis seemed to know every song by heart -- and
the motions to go with the lyrics. "Homeward Bound" by Simon and
Garfunkel, Billy Joel's "Only the Good Die Young", Bread's "I Found Her
Diary Underneath a Tree" (not sure thats's the right title.) I remember
a summer full of Supertramp and Lei [Moncrieff] introducing me to Loggins and
Messina's Best of Friends album with "House at Pooh Corner".