Mapping Influences Over Time
We didn’t like all of mom’s records. There were a few that didn’t make the roation when we were playing DJ. You are probably not surprised that I can’t remember what they were. The memory is a strange thing. I might be jumping ahead here but in late 1985 or maybe early 1986, I bought …
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Although mom had a fairly extensive collection and it seemed to include just about everything, I notice now that it was missing some big names of the era. Elvis Presley for example. I know mom liked Elvis a little bit I think at some point she had some elvis albums. The Scratchy 45’s did not include …
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Mom had this album in her collection. To this day, I have never heard it. I can’t even say if it was hers or left by Dad or something else. I remember the cover vividly. In fact, to get this image I went to Bing image search and typed in Frankie Laine Hell Bent For …
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I hope the jumping around in time doesn’t bother you. As I stated early on, I wasn’t going to attempt to put all of mom’s 45’s into any kind of chronological order. They weren’t in any order when we found them. Even though the music that makes up The Scratchy 45 Days comes from three …
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I’m still not quite satisfied with the layout but I feel that I must press on. I don’t want to fall too far behind and yet i don’t want to do do too much just in case I end up starting over. At the moment, we are still in the period known as The Scratchy …
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Remember a few posts back I told you that I was going to experiment with the format? I did a post of some random songs from The Scratchy 45 Days then I do a post focused on an Artist. I’m still not crazy about the results. One thing that comes to mind is the tag cloud …
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I could probably spend the entire year dissecting all these songs from The Scratchy 45 Days. They all seem to carry some memory or emotion that could be expanded upon. I’ve done some math. At 52 weeks per year, I can spend one week per year of my life with a few left over. Granted …
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Mom had a few favorites like Andy Williams and Perry Como but the singer she liked the most was Neil Diamond. She had a couple of Neil’s albums including this one Hot August Night. During The Scratchy 45 Days, we stayed away from the albums and just focused on the 45s. We’d get the albums …
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We’re still sorting through mom’s pile of 45 rpm records. For the most part, I’m just randomly selecting songs as they come to mind. My research tools are The Eclectic Collection, my media library, my memory, YouTube and the web in general. I’m sure this could have been planned out better. It could have had …
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Osmond. What a strange sounding name. Osmond. It sounds made up like Engelbert Humperdinck. As odd as that name sounds, in the 1970’s, it was a household name. Mom’s Scratchy 45s had plently of Osmond Brothers records. We watched The Donny And Marie Show. Was it a simpler time? Were we more innocent? What would …
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