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| From | "Ryan Hoekstra" <erhoek@attbi.com> |
| Subject | 1st records and picking cotton |
| Date | Thu, 26 Jun 2003 00:08:20 -0400 |
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I believe the song with Jump down turn around-pick a bale of cotton (made
famous by the Steve Martin movie The Jerk) is a Leadbelly (Huddy Ledbetter)
blues song.
1st records--hmm. 1st one I remember having a decision in is the Sesame
Street 8 track tape.
1st one I remember buying was either Live and Let Die ost or a K-tel 50s
and 60s comp called Jukebox Jive. I still have both.
Live and Let Die comes complete with a contract from my sister, promising
her french fries to me (next time she has some), written in blue ink over
the white back ground.
I also remember inheiriting some cool records from my teenage cousin who
lived with us for a couple years. Some I remember are by Think! (the one
that goes "things get a little easier once you understand",Black
Sabbath -Iron Man (I remember putting this on the turn-table and taking a
black marker to the label as it spun. It made a cool swirly
pattern),Who-Tommy (just like in Almost Famous and a few more I cannot
recall.
Hip indie credibility factor- I sold magazine subscriptions for school in
the 9th grade and won an album of my choice.I selected London Calling by the
Clash. Yeah -I know that CBS is not exactly indie but you get the point.
-r
np-Scott Gorsuch-Purple
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jocelyn Geboy" <smussyolay@yahoo.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: first album ever purchased
>
> --- "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com>
> wrote:
> > The first records I ever owned were a pair of 45s
> > ("Green
> > Tambourine" by the Lemon Pipers, and "How Can I Be
> > Sure?" by the Young
> > Rascals) that I won at a bazaar at my elementary
> > school in 1972. I still
> > love both of those songs. I didn't have a turntable
> > of my own, so I played
> > them on my parents' stereo.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~okay okay, i'll play. i resist, because i
> don't really remember -- as someone else said -- and
> as i recall, my stuff is pretty lame. the 45's i
> remember playing with my sister, i presume came from
> my parents? cause we didn't buy them. although why my
> parents had these records is beyond me, cause my dad's
> interest i swear stops at 1965, and my mom was more
> into neil diamond and kenny rogers. so. i remember
> 'night fever' by the bee gees, and 'just the two of
> us' by now, i realize bill withers, but i distinctly
> remember as a kid, thinking grover washington, jr. was
> a hilarious name. 'just the two of us' got the most
> spins at 78 rpms. we had a lot of kids records (john
> jacob jingleheimer schmidt, mr. rogers, sesame street
> collections) and a 45 that to this DAY, i can't really
> believe existed, but was actually a fave of ours...
> something to the effect of 'jump down, turn around,
> pick a bale of cotton'?????? what the fk!?? other
> than that, we had a 45 of 'i will follow him' that i
> loved. and oh yeah!! 'lollipop' !! i assume these
> were just hand-me-downs from my p's. i wonder if they
> still have them.
>
> then. music bought on my own. here's the deal. i do
> not actually recall the actual *purchase* of these
> cassettes, but... i assume because i owned them, that
> i asked for them in the kmart or target one day and we
> got them. or maybe for christmas? we didn't have a
> lot of money, and i didn't get an allowance, so...??
> thriller by michael jackson. born in the usa, bruce
> springsteen. whatever chicago was big circa 1985.
> with 'you're the inspiration,' 'hard to say i'm sorry'
> and 'walk away' on it. it might have even been a
> greatest hits. so, i was an 80's kid (note, kid), but
> i just wasn't cool.
>
> jocelyn
>
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