I found a whole series of Compact Discs that seemed to be based on my mom’s scratchy 45’s. I think there are 24 or 25 CD’s in this collection. I eventually would get around half ot them. It really helped my to collect those great songs from The Scratchy 45 Days. I thought it was really cool. I mean at that time it really had been years since I had heard many of those old songs.
Now I had access to many of my old favorites. I can almost the see the attraction of the download a song format. I could have quickly collected just the ones that I remembered. However, one of the cool things about this collection was inclusion of many great songs that either had escaped my memory or escaped mom’s collection but were still popular on the radio. Songs I probably would never have thought to download.
As you can see, a good portion of my early compact disc purchases were devoted toThe Scratchy 45 Days.It was a cool period to reconect with that great old stuff from the 1970’s. How does one measure the impact of this activity on my onverall Musical Evolution? I find it hard to comprehend and even more difficult to express.
It does add a kind of complication as it muddies the waters a little bit. In the mid 1990’s I was deep into New Age Music, replacing the final few vinyl albums that I had, and playing a game I called Columbia House Roulette. The conflux of all this makes this era kind of a melting pot with no clear identity of its own.