{"id":2584,"date":"2012-11-07T07:43:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T12:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2012-11-07T07:43:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T12:43:12","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-318-abandoning-vinyl-having-the-time-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/11\/07\/my-musical-evolution-part-318-abandoning-vinyl-having-the-time-of-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 318 Having The Time Of My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dirty<\/a>I spent the bulk of October and November preparing for our wedding and buying our first home. Buying a house at 23 was tough. We couldn’t afford much and I seemed to be driving to the mortgage company everyday with another piece of paper that they requested.<\/p>\n

Musically, I had replaced about 70% of my old records and favorite cassettes from the old days.\u00a0It was an expensive proposition but it was cool to check out some of that music again. It was kind of like a miniature version of what I’ve been doing here all year.<\/p>\n

Apart from that, \u00a0I was still mostly listening to my classical stuff and other instrumental pieces that I had accumulated.\u00a0 There are a couple of pieces to the Dirty Dancing<\/em> story. The first goes back a ways when Mary and I first began dating<\/em> for real. We were supposed to go see Dirty Dancing <\/em>in the theater on a Friday night but I\u00a0got detained at work for a really long time. Mary thought I stood her up and she was disappointed. Finally I was able to get a free minute to call and explain and apologize for not being able to go that night.<\/p>\n

I don’t remember when I did actually see Dirty Dancing<\/em> but it was quite a while after that, maybe even when it was on TV. The music, though was something that we enjoyed together from the beginning.\u00a0 We selected (I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life<\/em> to be our wedding song. Mary has ever since been the one thing I can’t get enough of<\/em>.\u00a0 You should have seen our wedding reception when Mary and I did the big lift <\/em>maneuver. It looked really stunning with her wedding dress floating behind her.<\/p>\n

While Mary and I were walking down the aisle, the people that we bought our first house from were moving out. Really, that house on Cortland was only empty for a few hours before we started moving in on the morning after our wedding.\u00a0 My mother and sisters had decorated my room at mom’s house in our wedding colors. Blue and silver ribbons twirled from the ceiling. It was a nice surprise. It was late, we were exhausted and we had to get up early to start moving.<\/p>\n

On a strange related coincidence note,\u00a0 when her twin sister got married a few years later, her wedding song was Unchained Melody.\u00a0 <\/em>Do you see it? Both songs were from Patrick Swayze movies that were popular at the time. Both were sung by a member of The Righteous Brothers.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Many of the songs here were period pieces. I thought that was cool. Mom had a fair amount of At The Hop<\/em> type stuff and I liked as a kid and still do. I have a few in my Eclectic Collection <\/em>but I’ve often considered expanding my 50’s music.<\/p>\n

(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life<\/em> Yes, Mary and I did this same dance at our wedding reception.
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