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Lakeside, CA Bob Back in Rap
I had this idea while I was looking through some old papers from high school and came across the lyrics to Rocky Racoon which I had handed in as an essay...
Read Memory Canada Stop the War
The Viet Nam war was in the front of everyone's minds that summer, like the invasion of Iraq has been for the last few summers now. As the war escalated,...
Read Memory Sacramento, CA Israelites - Desmond Dekker
This was the start of my passion for reggae/ska music I believe. We had a housekeeper who played probably one of L.A.'s few soul radio programs while she...
Read Memory Iowa City, IA sweet 17!
I met the love of my life when I was 17. However.. it was just too good to be true. Puppylove, infatuation, in lust, in love, unreal. I still dream and think...
Read Memory Ashby, MA Riding in Cars
The memories of my teenage years are always triggered by the music I was listening to at that time. There were no high tech toys then, so we rode around in...
Read Memory South Africa Entering The World
I think if I know myself well enough this would have to be the tune playing when the Gynacologist caught me and I breathed my first breath of this incredible...
Read Memory Metairie, LA Fish cheer:...
The song “Fish Cheer: I- feel- like- I’m- fixing- to- die- Rag” by Country Joe and the Fish was the anthem for the Woodstock generation. This song...
Read Memory Cambria, CA Breaking In
I was introduced to the music of The Who well before they had an album, or even a song, available in America. The older brother of a friend had gone to...
Read Memory Unknown Flawed Memory
I have always thought that this is the record I won in a disco dance competition in 1969 but it was not released until 1973. So why do I have a copy of the...
Read Memory Carrollton, TX Simon & Garfunkel Concert
In September, I first heard they were coming for a concert! I couldn't believe it! They were going to be right there at my college giving a...
Read Memory Unknown A First Date
 I used to baby sit for a couple who owned a record shop and tropical fish shop. They were into folk music and went to the local folk club whilst I looked...
Read Memory Memphis, TN The One My Mother Would Have...
I had one of those little portable record players from the late Sixties as a child, the kind you could carry around like a small suitcase. It was battery...
Read Memory Memphis, TN The First Taste, and Then You're...
I was three years old when I purchased my first three 45 RPM singles, which led to a lifetime of spending every bit of spare change on any piece of vinyl...
Read Memory East Saint Louis, IL Play B6
 The summer of 1969 was the last time I saw my father, dead or alive. The air was hot and turgid, much like the atmosphere between my mother and father....
Read Memory Westmont, IL First Dances
    I was about 11 years old and was seriously looking at the boys we hung around with as more than just childhood playmates.     ...
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