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Austin, TX Intro to Roxy Music
I worked with Rik Kenton in London, who played bass guitar for Roxy Music on their first album and UK tour. I was introduced to their music and the talented...
Read Memory Conshohocken, PA Discovering Dylan
In the sixties and into the early seventies I-95 had not been completed through Georgia. When you crossed into Savannah, coming from the north, there was a...
Read Memory Canada To be 13 again!
This is my all time Happy Song, that takes me back to 13 and a hot calm summer, with no cares! AHHHHHHH
Read Memory Houston, TX First Concert
My best friend and I put on our best glittery rock and roll clothes and went to seee Alice Cooper. We were sophomores in high school. We were mesmerized all...
Read Memory New Rochelle, NY Driving Way Too Fast
Well it's 1972 and my favorite live band, since I never saw The Beatles,The J. Geils Band, releases their first "live' album entitled Full House. It's...
Read Memory Corsicana, TX Sleeping Memories
When I was in the 6th grade, my parents had a party, inviting family and coworkers. Mind you my parents were country music all the way,,,,Hank Williams the...
Read Memory Canada Just Dreaming
I used to play this song in my room where I had a small record player. The album was on vinyl and this song just carried me away in pleasant thoughts. Still...
Read Memory Wollongong (for now, Calif later) If Paul hadn't died...
When I grew up, most of our neighbors were much older than I was. They were my parents' age, not mine. The closest children were not too far away, though. A...
Read Memory South Lebanon, OH Shove a pencil in my eye
Someone, I don't know who, gave this album to my mother in the early 70s. Mom had been in the music business, back in the day--the day being the 50s--so...
Read Memory Hayward, CA Sent Away
I had gotten into a little bit of trouble in my Senior year of high school. (And I suppose the phrase "little bit" is relative, depending on...
Read Memory Florence, AL osmosis
My mother was and is a huge fan of the crooners. Andy Williams, Perry Como, you name it. Mathis was in constant rotation in our home, and i still find myself...
Read Memory Unknown Lenzie Scout Hall
Dancing to Tiger Feet at the Scout Hall in Lenzie. Psychadelic oil patterns projected onto the walls were actually quite at odds with the song but we neither...
Read Memory Unknown My first real girlfriend
She was called Louise and she was a really nice girl. We were about 15 or 16 at the time, at Lenzie Academy and went to a few parties together in Lenzie and...
Read Memory Thomasville, GA adopted
My brother and I were in a car. We had just come from the zoo with a man and a woman we did not know but told us that we were not going back to our foster...
Read Memory Riverview, FL A Matter of Perspective
The moment I heard this song I knew it would be a favorite of mine and that I was going to like the singer who wrote with such sincerity and openness. Coat...
Read Memory San Pedro, CA Trip To Canada
My family had this hideous little baby-blue toyota stationwagon, and a case full of Chuck mangione. We set out for a road trip from Los Angeles to...
Read Memory Riverview, FL It's Faith Not Religion
Marty Robbins has been a favorite of mine for many years so when I was expanding my musical library in the 70’s I bought several of his albums. ...
Read Memory Unknown Love for the wrong man
I had a friend Louise. We worked together and met two guys at a nightclub. She fell madly in love with her guy. She was singing the song Puppy Love all the...
Read Memory Citrus Heights, CA Learning about relationship s...
When I was young I learned to enjoy going to bed on time. I simply placed a radio under my pillow and would fall asleep listening to the soft sounds of...
Read Memory Riverview, FL Upstaged
From the day of its release to now I would guess that there are few music lovers out there that don’t have a Wipe Out memory. It is a feel good...
Read Memory Wollongong (for now, Calif later) lullabies
One of my very earliest memories of music would be from my parents. They sung around the house. My father used to whistle popular tunes of the 60s and 70s,...
Read Memory Riverview, FL Forgotten Class Act
It was a small venue with some former great names in Country music. Though neither of the headliners had current hits on the charts, my husband and I...
Read Memory Houston, TX Thanks Don
The summer of '72, I went with 3 other girls to Hawaii for the summer. I had a carefree life of living 3 blocks off the beach, and I found a simple job...
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