Music Memories 3

Grade School Music Memories

- We listened to Susan’s Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall album during lunchtime one day in the 5^th grade.

-Secret Santa gifts that I received- K-Tel’s Wings of Sound in 6^th and John Cougar’s American Fool in 8^th.

-Our second grade teacher Miss M would sometimes bring in her guitar and play for us and we’d also occasionally sing songs like” Friends Are Like Flowers”.

-Our class sang John Lennon’s” Imagine” during a school assembly/show.

-For an art project in 6^th or 7^th grade we had to pick out an album cover to draw. I chose Grease which at the time I liked but no longer did a few years later.

-A Blondie record, the one with” The Tide is High” on it, was playing at Nancy’s birthday/slumber party.

-The church group did the play Bye, Bye Birdie in the early 1980s. Mom saw this on Broadway when Paul Lynde and Gene Rayburn were in the cast. She has that Playbill.

-We went on 2 trips to the Garden State Arts Center. Both were religious type events- a music group and a play (musical?). Mom got the record of the former.

- 4^th grade plays- My class did Shenandoah; originally it was going to be Oklahoma. Mike’s class did The Sound of Music.  

 

Note- the last 3 photos are from the internet

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.