Music Memories- Part 2
-I still have the 95 top songs of 1983 list from WPLJ.
“Hungry Like the Wolf” and” Is There Something I Should Know?” are on it as is
“Every Breath You Take” by the Police which is number 1.
-We remember some of tapes that we got from a club in the
early 80s. They were 10 for a penny or a
dollar then buy a certain number at regular price. Styx – Kilroy was Here, Toto IV,
Asia, Go-Gos – Vacation, David Bowie
– Let’s Dance, Kool and the Gang, Def
Leppard – Pyromania, Hall and Oates –
Voices or H2O, maybe both.
Mike said that my
Duran Duran Rio tape was also from
that club but I don’t remember this. I thought that I bought it at a flea
market in 1993. It’s strange that my brother would recall this and not me. I
must not have listened to it that much in the 80s. Night versions of “Hungry
Like the Wolf” and “Hold Back the Rain” are on this.
-High School- Jim D was showing some of us his Wham! - Make It Big album before class started
one day.
-I still have the Invisible
Tour Genesis poster that I got from the picture guys shop at US 1 Flea Market.
I had wished that I could go to one of their shows back then
-We listened to a Rick Astley tape for a little while at
Cindy’s graduation party in 1988. I think that she said that it was her mom’s.
Cindy was into Depeche Mode (and other New wave music that I don’t exactly
remember). I didn’t start liking them until the early 1990s.
-In 1989, my roommate and I were singing” Ebony and Ivory”
while walking by the river in Pittsburgh. A guy was looking at us as if we were
crazy.
-Billy Joel- I listened to his Greatest Hits Vol. 1&2 on my Walkman during the drive to
Smithville Village. I think that we stopped there on the way home from a trip
to the shore. We listened to some of his 8 tracks at our friends the Prescotts’
house a couple of times.
-We listened to Mark’s Styx Kilroy Was Here tape during the drive home from the shore (AC?) Dad
didn’t really care for that.
-I listened to Mellencamp’s Scarecrow on my Walkman during the drive to Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
for cousin Kevin’s wedding in 1988.
-Kathy, Mike and I listened to Prince and Hall and Oates
records at her house once. Her taste in music change a lot when she started
dating her future husband Jeff in the late 1980s. She then liked Aerosmith,
Motley Crue and other stuff that he and their college friends were into.
-Dad had an album of wrestling stars performing songs like”
Don’t Go Messin’ with a Country Boy” by Hillbilly Jim.
-The first CD that I ever bought was The Unforgettable Nat King Cole in 1994.
Note- The Wrestling album is an internet photo.
