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Back in '77, I moved to Springfield, Mass with my family. I didn't know what radio station to listen to, so I ended up listening to Reggae every saturday, Country, Rock/Album Rock and Disco in 30-day increments.
One night, the DJ said there was a new song from Led Zeppelin and that it was so great, he'd play it everynight@12am(which he did). This was my introduction to "Stairway to Heaven". I also learned about "10cc", Frampton, Skynnrd and heard first-hand the Rod Stewart's infamous ingestion.
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And of course the theme song to "Speed Racer", the Japanese animation.
..the one where Rock Bottom dresses up in a Felix suit. He's strutting around in the suit, singing the Felix theme song with the usual cigar hanging out of his mouth. The sight of a gigantic Felix smoking a cigar was pretty funny. His singing sounded like, "I'm Feee-lix da cat, da wondaful wondaful cat" :-). He robs a bank while wearing the suit and Felix gets thrown in jail for it. Hilarious!
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I never thought I'd live to see the day Kellog's would use a Jimi Hendrix tune ('Fire' for pop-tarts)!
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Reminds me of my childhood friend's father, Anthony Oznick, a Lockheed engineer who had built a home (mono) system 'to die for' consisting of what I now know to have been, a 16" turntable, home-made perforated sheet-metal amplifier with a 2A3 or 845 tube and a exponential horn speaker with a 10 or 12" coaxial driver located in the attic over the garage, and the horn mouth occupying the upper third of his dining room wall with a dimension of about 3' x 12'.He had re-positioned the rafters in the garage to make room for the horn that played through the adjoining wall into his living/dining room, I remember it was made out of a reddish brown wood composite that was hot stuff in 1966. His turntable and records were in cabinets he had made and they were pale blue Formica with gold leaves floating around in the pattern.
This was obviously my first introduction to good sound.
Unfortunately all was lost in the fire that resulted when his oldest son removed the gas tank from his motorcycle while smoking.
Growing up in Detroit in the 60's was both fun and scary. Fun: lots of excellent local music; Scary: my father had control of the car radio, the only radio we had. 20 minute trips listening to syrupy geck seemed like eterneties. But in '66 my hipster uncle bought me a transistor radio (that's right, ss, no tubes). These days, when I hear that song, I am transferred back in time to my post as Lieutenant Dan, safety boy, wigglin' and jigglin' on the corner with one hand mashing that radio against my ear for maximum mono fidelity of Cool Jerk, while streams of innocent tikes actually counted on me for their safe crossing. I don't know how (or if) anyone survived crossing my street when Cool Jerk came on.
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Eveytime I hear a song from my youth I think back to the friends, girls and what was going on at the timeI feel sorry for the MTV generation. Every time I hear a song from the MTV era it's the video that pops into my head
What a loss!
Julien
"There's someone in my head, but it's not me"
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as I partake of my lunch mixed greens salad with low fat dressing and my cup of yoghurt and reflect on my breakfast of oatmeal and flax cereal whilst musing on my health care professional's edict about lowering both a wee bit of weight and cholesterol I can only think of "Little Feat" and "Fat Man in the Bathtub" - which I am not but I can't help thinking about it. The old Bob Wills nugget "Roly Poly" is coming in a close second.
Not that either brings back any particular memories.
jac - desperaudio
...as it is the first song I specifically recall hearing, with the location and people related to it. Obviously I had heard other songs prior to this, but this is the one I remember as the first.
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Who's snarfing back a stack of burritos
Topping it up with re-fried beans
Washing it down with gallons of cola
Everyone knows it's Windy!
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...but music is the soundtrack of our lives.> What song from the past brings back memories?>
All 2100 songs I've recorded on my iPod from CDs do - the best songs from the past 50 years.
From Chuck Berry and Little Richard to Coldplay and Jackie Greene. Every song is a memory.
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...experience or memories.In fact, I've never heard of them or that song.
Everyone has personal/local songs they remember. Most of the bar bands I listened to in the day did covers and the original stuff a few did isn't available on CD.
Fortunately for you, that song is available here for copying to your iPod.
under that gruff exterior lies a sentimental slob! ;-)
> under that gruff exterior lies a sentimental slob!>
Still remember listening to him sing *Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone......*.All kinds of memories rush back when I listen to it now, like the dorm,my singing group called The BBC,the class mates,the girls, romance....That was listening to Jim Reeves on my tube radio.What a pity he died so young.
Stairway to Heaven actually came out in 1973 or so...In 77 the album from LZ that was hot was Physical Graffiti
Pink Floyds Wish you were here and Dark side of the moon
Tommy Bolins Private Eyes
SuperTramp
Joe Walsh
RushIm not in love by 10cc does bring back some great memories for me
at that timeIts when I left high school and was on my own for the first time
in 77Gas was cheap, beer was cheap, ciggs were cheap and it was legal
to drink at 18 years oldGoodtimes
But I remember the day my cousin introduced me to the music of Badfinger. I was over there with my family for my 10th birthday, and he played me "Baby Blue." I thought (and still think) it was the best pop song I'd ever heard. I've been hooked ever since. But there are a ton of other music-related memories as well--some good, some bad.
As an 18/19yr old, I was hoping that I'd be able to do this with the bird I happened to be dancing with at nightclubs ... but, sadly, it never occurred till years later! :-((Regards,
"bird" -Must be a British term, and I guess Aussie too. I had to look it up in an English slang and British colloquialisms dictionary to be sure. ;-)
... to be more genuinely Aussie, instead of "bird" I should've used "sheila" (that's defintely not British!). :-)) But that word's kinda old hat now ... young kids no longer use it.Alternatively "scrubber" ... although that's really a bit derogatory! ;-))
What's the equivalent Yanqui term for "bird"?
Regards,
"Mrs. Brown, You Have A Lovely Daughter" -- Herman's Hermits
"Help" -- The Beatles
"I wanna Hold Your Hand" -- The Beatles
"Love (Can Make You Happy) -- Mercy
"Close To You" -- The Carpenters
"Hello, It's Me -- The Nazz (the original version, not Todd Rundgren's)
"Sweet Caroline" -- Neil DiamondSo many other songs that my wild male cousins introduced me to including songs by The Doors, Led Zepplin, Norman Greenbaum, The Animals, alot of so called "basement music".
It all warms my 50-year-old heart,
DDM
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