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Brunswick, GA Mom
I was 8.My mom had tucked me and my sister into bed and was closing the door. I insisted she put the radio on.We listened to Linda Ronstadt singing You're no...
Read Memory Japan My name.
My sister loved this song. She was two and used to dance to it. So my parents called me 'Clair.' When I was a child my family used to sing it to me and I...
Read Memory United Kingdom First Record I Ever Bought
Not much to this, but this was the first record I ever, ever bought.It was black and it had an orange centre and a vaguely green jacket as I recall. I think...
Read Memory Portland, OR The school parking lot
School's Out was the song playing from everyone's eight track on the last day of high school in 1973. Most everyone drove a pick-up or an old beeter car but...
Read Memory Corsicana, TX Chicken Ranch
I was probably 11 or 12 years old and bought this on a 45. I didn't know too much about rock and roll at that time, sure didnt know anything about the...
Read Memory Wollongong (for now, Calif later) In reverse
Looking at the song title in reverse - pins and needles - is how I first viewed it when purchasing the album many years ago. I have experienced pins and...
Read Memory Hayward, CA On The Road
My girlfriend and co worker, asked me if I'd drop her off at home. I thought to myself, she lived kind of far away, but hey, why not. So we set off from...
Read Memory Riverview, FL Green-Eyed Monster
Dolly was still with The Porter Wagoner Show when my late husband and I saw them at a high school in the Detroit suburbs. We knew then she would outshine...
Read Memory Wollongong (for now, Calif later) Rolling on the floor in a satin...
Whilst at elementary school, I used to come home during the lunch break to eat a meal. I only lived a few minutes away from the school and there were only...
Read Memory Riverview, FL One In A Million
The year, 1973, that The Teddy Bear Song hit the airwaves was one of the best and worst in my life. My marriage of two years had hit some rough spots,...
Read Memory Apo, AP My First Record
Here’s one you never expected…Greensleeves.  But it sparks a memory in me, nonetheless. Here goes. Back when I was younger…oh,...
Read Memory Unknown Incomplete Memory
Half the people in the world and some elsewhere had a copy of Tapestry. The other half of human kind didn't get one because some of us had more than our fair...
Read Memory Murphy, NC My First Album
My sister and I have got along well our entire lives. Of the five members of my immediate family, she was the one who always understood who I was, and we've...
Read Memory Westmont, IL The 57 Chevy
    My best friend and I have know each other since we were three years old. We were like sisters, we were very much a part of each others...
Read Memory Unknown float like a butterfly, sting...
Cassius Clay/ Muhammad Ali was a living legend. He was unstoppable; the boxing ring had never seen (and may never ever see again) such a combination of...
Read Memory Unknown A record (vinyl) on a postcard
I remember how excited & incredulous I was when I found this postcard, which had the circular grooves typical of a record, on the picture face, with a...
Read Memory Solon, OH What are you kids listening to??
I remember my mother sitting on my brother's bed reading the lyrics to Dark Side of the Moon, looking for the hidden meaning between the lines. She was...
Read Memory Mankato, MN Chased in the Dark
1973 was a year of new experiences, major ones. We moved from the south side of Chicago to a house in the Wisconsin woods. I went from sleeping in a narrow...
Read Memory Bowie, MD I Had So Many Breakthrough s
I grew up in a household where music was always an important part of our daily lives. My parents weren't musicians themselves, and neither could carry a tune...
Read Memory Jerseyville, IL Secret Song
The first musical memory I have is my grandfather singing to me, which is pretty funny considering he wasn't much of a singer, nor was he someone you would...
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