Interesting, Will.  Someone just sent me an early Barry Manilow rocker.
It's called Oh Julie and I love it.  I never liked much Barry Manilow.  The
only song I really liked by him was Mandy and that was his first hit, I
think.


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From: <nonstoppop@cox.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: Favorites...


> >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
>
>