Joan Armatrading was good, but is not exactly going to raise an eyebrow by the youth of today. Elkie Brooks aswell.
They were not maufactured, they had not been crafted, but grafted at their craft.
They had hits, several hits, and critical acclaim of albums, back when albums were black and shined and turned at 33 and a third. And today's youth may have a hard job in the pop quiz, songs that graced homes some thirty years ago as a soundtrack to a time are trapped in that time.
Somehow as wrinkles played across a face as fingers played across a guitar, faces were lost to the TV world and then lost to the radio world.
Still at one home they play on.
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Saturday, 13 November 2010
The First Record
How embarrasing, a confession, a shame. I hear them now calling out "Shame on You".
It was at school a second had "45", it was Rod Stewart and he was sailing. How I could now wish that it was London calling to a faraway town, but it was sailing b/w'd Stone Cold Sober. It s funny how I knew the B-side asreliogiously as the a side back then.
The first legit "45" bought from Woolworths, in a land that time still had a Woolworths. A Woolworths that had not thrown a history down the pan of a global recession and that "45" was Darts' "Come Back my love".
And the "33" Elvis Greatest Hits. Was I looking for trouble?
And the "78 rpm" was a never used setting on the radiogram. Radiogram indeed. How quaint I am?
For all my never mind the teenage swagger grown old to the arthritic swing of a sister, I still am proud to know the words and sing badly out of tune to a "Love coming back to stay".
From declaring Hello this was Joanie was good and paying the price, to Mull of Kintyre and saying it was damn fine, when others were worrying about their safety pinned ear. I called YMCA a guture number one hit when it was only top forty. I will walk back and forth across the Rock'n'roll tracks.
It was at school a second had "45", it was Rod Stewart and he was sailing. How I could now wish that it was London calling to a faraway town, but it was sailing b/w'd Stone Cold Sober. It s funny how I knew the B-side asreliogiously as the a side back then.
The first legit "45" bought from Woolworths, in a land that time still had a Woolworths. A Woolworths that had not thrown a history down the pan of a global recession and that "45" was Darts' "Come Back my love".
And the "33" Elvis Greatest Hits. Was I looking for trouble?
And the "78 rpm" was a never used setting on the radiogram. Radiogram indeed. How quaint I am?
For all my never mind the teenage swagger grown old to the arthritic swing of a sister, I still am proud to know the words and sing badly out of tune to a "Love coming back to stay".
From declaring Hello this was Joanie was good and paying the price, to Mull of Kintyre and saying it was damn fine, when others were worrying about their safety pinned ear. I called YMCA a guture number one hit when it was only top forty. I will walk back and forth across the Rock'n'roll tracks.
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