Unearthing Old Tunes

[Julie Moriarty]

I was looking for some missing CDs and the search took me to a stack of vinyl LPs I hadn't seen in a while. Like a magnet, I took them out and memories started flowing. It started with a ripple and before I knew it I was immersed. So many albums I hadn't seen in decades, the songs, the memories... wow...

As a trip down memory lane, how about offering those songs that put an ear-to-ear grin on your face when you hear them. Why that is, is strictly voluntary :rolleyes:

1969 - The Fifth Avenue Band (I'll tell you what I was doing at that time later ;))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4nRNQ2zWqg&index=2&list=PLtHATsM4aEfolxcv QdTl6UbVJMwG-XEGV

[Ken Fitzgerald]

I married a young divorcee` with two kids and adopted the kids a couple years later. A couple years later, while stationed at NAS Meridian, MS I had a day off and stayed home with the kids. She went to town. A few hours later, she returned......she walked in the door, tossed a pacifier in my lap and said "Guess what?"

I walked over to the stereo and put on a 33 rpm.....I played a Rascals song......I'm So Happy Now...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcuMhr5nkdc&feature=player_detailpage


BTW....I'm happy to report that with some of my hearing regained I am once again buying and listening to music. My cochlear implant doesn't provide perfect hearing but that would be an unreasonable expectation. It is good enough, however, to hear human voices and enjoy music. Some of the music is fairly accurate and some of it is distorted.

My collection of music CDs from the 60s-to-early 80's rock genre is large and growing.....along with some jazz, some flamenco and some Broadway musicals.

[Chris Padilla]

I was busy being born in 1969. :D

Nice tune...first I heard it or of the band. :)

[Larry Edgerton]

Starting the late sixtys I would buy at least one album every payday, and continued that up until about mid seventies. I would remove the celiphane so they did not warp, and record them on my reel to reel, and put them in a chest, only played once.

Then I married a wild woman and when the dust settled I no longer had a house or my collection of over 500 albums. So fast forward many, many years, and I end up at her house. She still has the albums in the chest. I spent a couple of hours going through them and was surprised at how many I had totally forgotten. How can you forget Country Joe and the Fish?

She still did not let me have them back though...........

Larry

[Prashun Patel]

I have a milk crate full of 70s and 80s albums that I can no longer play (no turntable).
There is nothing like experiencing album art, liner notes, and SIDES of an album. Listening to records was like reading a book. Or maybe I just experienced things like music more intensely as a boy.

i see my kids today on YouTube or in the car and they seem to have that same rapt look on their face when their faves come on.

[Julie Moriarty]

I am finding that some of the LPs in my collection are by artists I never heard from again, and had completely forgotten. Some I can't remember a single song on the album, even when I see the titles. But going through them got me so nostalgic I decided to revive my Dual 1229 turntable, bought in 1972. The last 20-25 years, it's been pretty much sitting in the entertainment center looking pretty but doing nothing else. I had to clean up old oil and grease on a few important functions and re-lubricate them and I got the turntable working so I can play albums but there are still more work to be done before it's back to its old self. And it needs a new cartridge. I've seen refurbished 1229s where they made a new base out of walnut or mahogany. Light bulb does on...:rolleyes:

This is another LP I found yesterday, from the 80's, and probably not as obscure as the last band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5zioPOIFb4

[Ken Massingale]

Lots of the great ole stuff at http://thenostalgiamachine.com/

Enjoy

Ken

[Stan Calow]

How many albums were bought just for the cover art? I am thinking of a certain Carly Simon album I probably never listened to.

[Lee Reep]

I was in 6th grade when the Beatles arrived on the scene. So junior high and high school for me meant all the big rock bands were popular. I have complete collections of vinyl albums of The Beatles, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues -- the list goes on seemingly forever...

I am in the middle of remodeling our study. All new texture on wall and ceiling (ugh -- popcorn texture removal everywhere is slowly getting done). Lots of holes in drywall for a lot of new routing for lights and other things electrical and computer-related. Final sanding of walls will be done nby today, then on to priming and painting the ceiling and walls this week. Then the real fun begins -- major project to build 10 feet of cabinetry, primarily to house my old stereo system and collection of vinyl. I can hardly wait to get it done. The only person more anxious is my wife, since the room has been torn up well over a year. (Hey, the work of a perfectionist doesn't happen overnight!)

[Kent A Bathurst]

Lots of the great ole stuff at http://thenostalgiamachine.com/

Enjoy

Ken

Ken - thanks - way cool....................

[Kent A Bathurst]

BTW....I'm happy to report that with some of my hearing regained I am once again buying and listening to music again. My cochlear implant doesn't provide perfect hearing but that would be an unreasonable expectation.

Ken -

that is terrific news. thanks for letting us know.

I know, from our PM conversations over the years, how important music is to you. To be able to hear it - even "good enough, but not perfect" - must be gratifying, given where you were before the implant.

Very happy for you, Sir.

Regards.............

Kent

[Kent A Bathurst]

I was busy being born in 1969. :D

WC Fields: "Buzz off, kid. You're bothering me".


;)

[Paul McGaha]

I've heard that turntables and albums are making a comeback. My oldest son (Louis, 37 years old) is into it. He bought a new turntable and buys a new album once a month or so. I think at this point he probably has at least (10) new albums.

I guess i'm out of date some but all my music is on CD's.

PHM

Edit - He's over (30) albums now.

[Kent A Bathurst]

.........I guess i'm out of date............

Now then.............THERE'S a big newsflash, Paul. :p

You've been a member of our club for a while now, brudda...............

[Paul McGaha]

Now then.............THERE'S a big newsflash, Paul. :p

You've been a member of our club for a while now, brudda...............

Yeah, I guess so. I'm in good company.

[kevin nee]

I must I admit that music is the answer! I am a burnt out sixties guy now retired
working in a 150 year old warm remodeled barn. 300 CD player on random. Recently
while at a bench in front of a big window deer came down to feed. Leon Russell came
on with his version of "JUMPIN JACK FLASH" and I realized every once in a while it is
good to be "OLE KEV" I should have retired 40 years ago!

[Bill McNiel]

Interesting timing, I just received a commission to design/build storage/display units for 4,000+ 45s and 7,000albums. This man truly loves his music, he asks for the year you graduated from High School and for the next two hours every tune from that year brings back the memories. Great fun!

[Julie Moriarty]

Kevin, you mean this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHrHZDSZzE4

[Shawn Pixley]

Everything that is old is new again. I saw Axtec Camera open for Elvis Costello in the Eighties. I still have my LP player and >700 albums on vinyl. Vinyl is hip again and we get a new vinyl about once a month. My son buys metal. LOML buys Prog. I am pretty eclectic - blues, jazz, cowpunk, classical, and alternative.

[Jim Koepke]

Here is one my wife and I both like.

Many years ago our favorite morning disc jockey would play this at the end of his Friday morning program.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00nooOZddY4

jtk

[Chris Padilla]

Ha! Love it, Jim!!

[Julie Moriarty]

Jim, your video made me think of this song. Don't know why but I do know many residents and visitors alike got to know the Lincoln Park Pirates first hand. I was one of them. :rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEo9d4rA3Yw

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Julie,

In the late 60's, I went to HS in a small farming town in southern Illinois and the morning after I graduated moved to a small farming town near Pontiac, IL. For the next 18 months I changed jobs frequently and eventually Uncle Sam sent me an invitation to take a physical exam, a train ticket and a free night at the YMCA in Chicago. In those 18 months I chased two Chicago bands around the suburbs with my dates......

Here's one....the Cryan' Shames.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb-tQbDYywE&list=RDnb-tQbDYywE

and the other band....The New Colony Six...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIrsBUPM7ps

[Julie Moriarty]

Ken, I remember those bands well. I saw them each at least once. Memory doesn't let me commit to anything more than that. New Colony Six is playing next month just a few miles from here. It's their 50th Anniversary. YIKES!

[Julie Moriarty]

This is an old tune done by the Ventures, Apache, with a young Peter Frampton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Hc5abSVHA