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| From | <nonstoppop@cox.net> |
| Subject | Re: Favorites... |
| Date | Thu, 3 Jun 2004 15:08:59 -0400 |
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>What were some of your favorite songs, favorite groups,
>favorite albums, etc., when you were growing up?
As a kid, I really didn't get into music very much...and what I did get into was either what my parents were listening to at the time, or what I heard on my clock radio in the morning before getting up for school. But here are some of the eclectic highlights that leap immediately to mind:
* Johnny Cash, "Live At Folsom Prison"
* Waylon Jennings, "Greatest Hits"
* Al Jolson, "The Jolson Story"
* Barry Manilow, "Even Now" (I always loved "A Linda Song")
* An 8-track tape of radio shows from the '30s and '40s, with Burns & Allen and Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy
* the "Dumb Ditties" album from K-Tel (I could probably still sing most of "Beans In My Ears" if asked...not the lyrics are really that difficult to begin with)
* Queen, "Another One Bites The Dust / Don't Try Suicide" 45
* The Little River Band ("Reminiscing," "Night Owls," and whatever other singles were played on the radio)
* Rupert Holmes, "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)"
* Bertie Higgins, "Key Largo" (I was singing about Bogie and Bacall long before I knew who the hell they were)
It took the Beatles to really get me into music enough to care about buying it on a regular basis...and, from there, I think it was "Thriller," "Pyromania," and Men At Work's "Cargo" that were purchased in relatively rapid succession...
Latah,
WILL
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