RE: Cool LPs you have posted...

Posted by ASHRA (A) on August 26, 2016 at 06:57:24

In Reply to: RE: Cool LPs you have posted... posted by peteSF on August 21, 2016 at 15:38:52:

Thanks for your response Pete. I was a child of the 60s'. My musical journey began with my Dad, fresh from service with US armed forces, moving his young family into a new community that was conflicted about having us as neighbors. Being all of 5 years, my parents thought giving me a radio might be a safer outlet than a hostile neighborhood could provide.

Exploring the AM dial I found WRCP(Real Country Power) and learned of Patsy Cline, Jimmy Dean, Bob Wills and other country stars. Fun music for me but then I heard my Mother listening to Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra. Singing was not uncommon in our house and I fell right in line.

Years later in high school I got a newspaper route and discovered micro transistor radios. While folding and delivering newspapers I discovered Motown made the task even more fun.
Smokey Robinson, the Supremes, the Temptations and Aretha Franklin accompanied my newspaper deliveries.

My Dad became friends with a gentleman he met at his job named Ralph Collier. Ralph Collier was a long time radio personality on Philly radio. He would often gift books and LPs he had received, for review purposes, to my Dad. Dad would hand me a stack of 15 to 30 brand new LPs every other month or so and I was in heaven. My Dad listened to jazz but not that new fusion jazz by Miles and other artists. Rock, jazz, folk, and electronic music LPs were handed to me and I devoured them all.

Today I continue to enjoy a varied palette but I tend to the more experimental or avant garde in all genres. It's been an exciting journey.

Thanks again for sharing.

Still spinnin'...(and exploring)
;^)

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Topic - ACOTD - Avant Garde Jazz in Black and White . . .Part-2 - peteSF 11:39:29 08/17/16 (8)

Cool LPs you have posted... - ASHRA 14:19:50 08/21/16 (3)

RE: Cool LPs you have posted... - peteSF 15:38:52 08/21/16 (2)

RE: Cool LPs you have posted... - ASHRA 06:57:24 08/26/16 (0)

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RE: ACOTD - Avant Garde Jazz in Black and White . . .Part-2 - belyin 22:11:40 08/20/16 (2)

RE: ACOTD - Avant Garde Jazz in Black and White . . .Part-2 - peteSF 22:23:34 08/20/16 (1)

RE: ACOTD - Avant Garde Jazz in Black and White . . .Part-2 - belyin 23:19:40 08/20/16 (0)

Your killin' me with a this great stuff... - MaxwellP 05:29:47 08/18/16 (0)

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