Well, my earliest memory goes back to the year my brother and I got a record player from my parents. Both of our birthday's are at Christmas time, so my parents gave us the dreaded combination gift, both birthday and Christmas, to both of us! What a bad idea that was! Since my brother is older, he got to keep the record player in his room.
They gave me a Petula Clark lp, and gave Stephen a Chad and Jeremy lp. Oddly enough Sheryl, mine had the song "England Swings" on it! The next year, my parents decided since I played my one and only album so often, I must really like Petula Clark, so they gave me another one of her albums! I got a Herman Hermits lp also though. Oddly enough, the first album made me a life long, closet Petula Clark fan. I got to see her this year, and she can sure still put on one heck of a show at age 73. She looked damn good too! And just to further thrill my still adolescent heart, David Cassidy was in the audience, and came up and did "Downtown" with her.
This year I happened to catch Chad and Jeremy on a PBS special, and remembered how much I enjoyed my brother's album. I found a cd of the record on ebay, and bought it. The album was "Of Cabbages and Kings". I put the cd on, and songs that I had not heard for 40 years came rushing back to me! I knew every word and every note! It's so odd that I can't remember things that happened yesterday, last week, or sometimes last year, but I can remember every word to that album.
As for the first album that I ever bought for myself, that's an even stronger memory. It was IYCRMM. Still have it, still one of my favorites.
Jenney
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