Mom still has all
of her records, even the Rosemary Clooney 78s. She doesn’t have her old record
player that could play these though. I have my record player only it hasn’t
been used in about 10 years. That stereo has been in mom’s room for even longer
than that.
I can’t believe
that I used to like listening to her musical soundtracks- Gigi, Gypsy, Oklahoma, South Pacific, The Music Man, Bye- Bye Birdie,
Jumbo, and The King and I. We watched these movies together too.
I wish that I
never got rid of all but 3 of my Beatles records. I’m kind of embarrassed about
my McCartney crush. I did have a poster of him and a Beatles one on my wall
during that late 80’s- early 90s phase.
I thought that one of our 8th grade
Communion Breakfast (pre-graduation) songs used Billy Joel’s “It’s Still Rock
and Roll to Me” with our school name replacing “Rock and Roll”. When I recently
looked in that booklet, I saw “Graduation” to the tune of Kool & the Gang’s
“Celebration” which I do remember. But there was also another called “Be Good
Eighth Grade” to the tune of “Be Good Johnny” that I definitely don’t recall.
Why had there even
been 2 songs? The former says 1982 with words written by 4 of my classmates and
the latter is 1983, with 5 names. A
couple of them sound familiar; they might have been the class of 1984. I am
really confused about this.
Mike mentioned that
his class had “The Reflex”. Was it used for this same event or as the main song
for his 8th grade dance- Medieval Times theme? If it was the former,
I wonder how they would have changed the words to fit graduation/grade school
memories.
I’m so bad at
remembering song lyrics. I do know some Christmas carols still, I think. The
songs that I remember most are the ones from my childhood and it’s not like I
can recall many of the words. There’s Mellencamp’s “Jack and Diane”, Lionel
Richie’s “You Are”, Kenny Rogers- “The Gambler”, Wham! – “Careless Whispers”,
and McCartney/Wonder-“Ebony and Ivory”.
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