{"id":105,"date":"2012-01-13T17:28:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T22:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2012-01-13T17:28:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T22:28:22","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-11-scratchy-45-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/01\/13\/my-musical-evolution-part-11-scratchy-45-days\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 11 Scratchy 45 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember. Did I explain why I call this period the <em>Scratchy 45 Days<\/em>? It should be self explanatory. Mom had a bunch of 45s. Since they were vinyl records, they would carry that hiss and pop. To make matters worse, we weren&#8217;t very good at taking care of them. It still makes me cringe to this day to think of all those great records sitting inside a 1970&#8217;s end table cabinet without protective sleeves and rummaged and stacked by 7 and unders.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start this stack of 7 with The Beach Boys &#8211; <em>In My Room.<\/em> Somehow, while I was at prep school, The Beach Boys would enter my collection and I listened to them quite a bit. We&#8217;ll see them again in 1982.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Usuu-xu75dI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always liked Mary Hopkins&#8217; and the &#8220;old world&#8221; feel of <em>Those Were The Days<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2KODZtjOIPg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember which came first, listening to <em>Sugar, Sugar <\/em>or watching The Archie Cartoons on Saturday morning. Mom was a big fan of Archie comic books at some point. She used to have quite a few of them that I remember reading. I&#8217;ll have to look Archie up. It seems to me that her comics were pretty old by the time I got to reading them.\u00a0 I just saw this documentary about The Monkees. I mention it here because Sugar, Sugar was originally going to be a Monkees song.\u00a0 Before the Monkees could record it, they had a falling out with Don Kirshner. Don didn&#8217;t care for the disrepect and rebellion he was getting from some of the Monkees so he decided that his next pop group would be animated. Cartoons don&#8217;t talk back. So he created the Archies and sugar, Sugar became their song. I wonder what it would have sounded like as performed by the Monkees.<\/p>\n<p>The Archies &#8211; <em>Sugar Sugar<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h9nE2spOw_o?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This Scratchy 45 didn&#8217;t have a label on it and it had a crack all the way through. We called it the doo-doo-doo song after the sound of the intro. It would be years later that I would discover that this nameless song was in fact <em>Cruel Sea <\/em>by The Ventures. It sounds a bit different without the extra beat that the crack added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KPW6Z3au3mA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another instrumental piece that also sounds like it could be the soundtrack for an early 1980&#8217;s video game.\u00a0My media library has quite a lot of\u00a0instrumental music.\u00a0I don&#8217;t know, I just really like long musical pieces that are not muddied with words. Hot Butter &#8211; <em>Popcorn<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YK3ZP6frAMc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Never been too much into Neil Young but this one\u00a0reaches me. I&#8217;m sure that some music experts will be disappointed but I just can&#8217;t get into Neil Young and I think Bob Dylan is horrible. Neil Young &#8211; <em>Heart Of Gold<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7fXaC07X5M8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Edward Bear&#8217;s <em>Last Song<\/em> is another one of those sad sounding songs that I was really drawn to. I&#8217;m sure that I didn&#8217;t fully comprehend the emotion behind the words. I was in first grade and\u00a0had never been dumped. I did recognize that it was about loss.\u00a0 I remember writing the lyrics out in school. My teacher saw the paper on my desk and thought it was some kind of love lettter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yPeAL657lnk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, it turns out that Edward is no relation to Smokey. So there you\u00a0 go. I hope you liked this stack. Of course you can use the comment section below to share your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember. Did I explain why I call this period the Scratchy 45 Days? It should be self explanatory. Mom had a bunch of 45s. Since they were vinyl records, they would carry that hiss and pop. To make matters worse, we weren&#8217;t very good at taking care of them. It still makes me &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/01\/13\/my-musical-evolution-part-11-scratchy-45-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 11 Scratchy 45 Days&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[64,219,295,400,441,542,613,680],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-musical-evolution","tag-beach-boys","tag-edward-bear","tag-hot-butter","tag-mary-hopkins","tag-neil-young","tag-scratchy-45-days","tag-the-archies","tag-the-ventures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}