Mapping Influences Over Time
So we continue sorting through mom’s 45s. I apologize if this seems tedious to you. I realize that there are a lot of them and these are only the ones that I can remember. Granted I probably remember most of them but I’m sure that when all is said and done and we move into …
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Mom really could pick them. Olivia Newton-John – Please, Mr. Please Paul McCartney & Wings – Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey Steely Dan – Do It Again The Carpenters – Hurting Each Other It is hard to listen to Karen Carpenter without thinking about how insidious anorexia is. So sad. The Partridge Family – I’ll …
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How many of mom’s 45s have we heard so far? We still have quite a few ahead of us. As I think about these old somgs and sample them on YouTube, i can’t help but feel like I’m dong one of those informercials for a Time-Life CD collection of 1970’s hits. Those really were great …
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It all started with Hawaii Five-0 as you know. Then those Disney records where they adapted their movies to album form. Back in the 1960’s and into the 1970’s these adaptations were the only way to bring these movies home from the theater. Remember, there weren’t DVD’s or even VCR’s back then. So records like …
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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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