I have been tinkering with my screenplay about my summers at the Jersey shore for about, oh, 25 years now. The title has changed from "The P of President" to "That's What People Do" to "Down Da Shore" to original title.

Other than that, I have about 5-10 minutes of movie on paper and the rest in my head now full of flickering and fading brain cells.

The soundtrack? Well, that's walk in the park -- or beach.

Keep in mind that these are not necessarily songs I like. Some I have come to loathe. Nonetheless, they are the tunes that take me back to that time and place.

Here we go:

One Of These Nights, The Eagles

Note: This will be the opening track, after a brief interlude of just the sound of Atlantic Ocean at night. The camera follows through the windswept summer-night streets and into my grandparents' summer house before abruptly ending when my step-father tells me to shut off the radio I have tucked under my pillow. (If the Eagles don't allow the song to be used, the backup is, gulp, The Hustle by Van McCoy.

Knock Three Times, Dawn

Note: Confession time, my mother used to perform other Tony Orlando and Dawn songs during breakfast (after she convinced herself she should have been in show business after the teachers at her school did some sort of talent show), but those others -- Sweet Gypsy Rose, Tie A Yellow Ribbon -- are not going to be any movie of mine. Knock Three Times? Gotta admit, it's a guilty pleasure.

I Honestly Love You, Olivia Newtown John

Note: Another one my mother performed all summer that is almost passable.

Mandy, Barry Manilow

Note: See Knock Three Times entry. There were other Barry Manilow songs she sang, but I don't want to chase people out of the theater.

Delta Dawn, Helen Reddy

Note: See Knock Three Times and Mandy entries.

Vehicle, Ides Of March

Note: The coolest character in the movie is my older cousin Beth, modeled after my cousin Sue, and this was her anthem in her wilder younger days (or so I was told).

Do You Wanna Make Love?, Peter McCann

Note: Was it a beach day or a Two Guys day? If the weather was not optimum, we would go to the closest discount department store, Two Guys. One day, Beth/Sue told my cousin Robert (Richard in the movie) and I (Jordan) we could each pick out one 45. This was my choice. His was the theme from Star Wars.

We've Got To Get It Again, The Addrissi Brothers

Note: No real reason to put it in, other than it was a cool song forgotten by time.

Blinded By The Light, Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Note: Written by Springsteen, the lyrics to the more popular cover kept us up nights on the porch trying to figure out the meaning. Years later, when I became a Bruce addict, I realized we were perplexed for two reasons. One, they were mixed up and taken out of context in this version. Two, Springsteen wrote the song more as an exercise in word play about the characters in his world than to have any deeper meaning.

Magic, Pilot

Note: See We've Got To Get It On Again for rationale. Planned for use during the amusement park scene at Million Dollar Pier.

All By Myself, Eric Carmen

Note: Appears in the part of the movie when there is a lot of soul-searching and friction amongst the characters.

Show Me the Way, Peter Frampton

Note: The big wrap-up song, where all issues are resolved, before the titles roll and the theme song, to be written by Mike Post, plays.

That's it -- for now -- if and when I wrote more, additional songs -- particularly for flashback scenes to when my mom and aunt were younger -- will be revealed.