Mapping Influences Over Time
Well, we’re about to wrap up the era known as BFMS. Maybe we should do an little recap. What have we learned so far? I liked what I felt was a wide variety of musical flavors. Pop music, Folk music, Disco, Rock and Roll, Classical, Show tunes, and Soundtracks just about anything except for country. For …
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I can’t understand why there ended up being such an anti-disco movement. I thought some of it was rather clever. You know taking the Star Wars theme or classics like Beethoven’s 5th and discofying them. I feel fortunate to be able to look back at this time in My Musical Evolution and find these great …
Continue reading “My Musical Evolution – Part 80 BFMS You Should Be Dancing”
Did the films Grease and Sgt Pepper come out in the same year? It feels that but if I give it a second though, Grease was first then Sgt Pepper. Hang on, I’ll check. Both 1978 according to imdb.com. I remember having the stylized Sgt Pepper Logo T-shirts. Even though Frampton Comes Alive had been …
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It wasn’t really a dance hall. It was the gym at Bellows Falls Middle School. Looking at it from a parent’s or administrators point of view, the middle school dance seems even more awkward than it felt when I was in 7th grade. I can’t shake this notion of it being a primitive rite as a …
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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 …
Continue reading “My Musical Evolution – Part 21 No Country For THIS Old Man”
As I mentioned previously, The Scratchy 45 Days were powered by my adoring mother’s extensive collection of 45 rpm singles taken from top 40 style AM radio. What I’m struggling with now is how to represent all that music in a cohesive yet entertaining and educational manner. Here are a couple of thoughts. I could simply …
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