Mapping Influences Over Time
So here we are in the aptly named Academy Days era. The era names still maintaining that epic stylized quality. As before with the BFMS era, I’m going apologize for any chronological inconsistencies. The Academy Days officially covered the Autumn of 1979 through Spring of 1983. As we saw in the last post, Heart Of …
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My middle school years were dominated by radio. I wasn’t listening to my KISS records as much and I wasn’t able to really buy anything new. So the radio was it. I’m really surprised that I can’t recall the 2 or 3 stations that I would listen to. I know that they were broadcasting from New …
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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The really sad thing that I’ve realized in doing this project is that such a large portion of the music that I listened to and liked up to this point is simply lost to time and the weakness of the vinyl medium. Those early Disney records are not likely to be re-released on CD. This is a …
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