Mapping Influences Over Time
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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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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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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