The Childhood Songs that You Grew Up With?
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steven ambrozat:
beatlesfanrandy:
steven ambrozat:
jl4761:
HaileyMcComet:
Three networks and black & white TV. Imagine how all of this sounds to today's teenagers.
I don't think that teenagers today can even comprehend three networks and black & white TV's!!!
And no remote control. Turning the set on manually, and waiting for it to "warm up."
I remember waiting for the little dot to warm up and suddenly a big black and white picture would appear. You tuned the set with tuning knobs and got the "rabbit ears" antenna in just the right position. So you could watch channels 2-13, if you lived in L.A. or New York. Most cities coast-to-coast only had the three network channels. There wasn't even videotape to watch a movie! Boy how we take our HDTV's, DVD's, cable, and satellite dishes for granted now.
No matter how hard you try, you can't send a text message from a rotary phone.
And yet, we still say "dial" the number.
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beatlesfanrandy:
And yet, we still say "dial" the number.
And hang up. When's the last time you hung up a phone?
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HaileyMcComet:
beatlesfanrandy:
And yet, we still say "dial" the number.
And hang up. When's the last time you hung up a phone?
All the time. I still have a land line with 4 phones that you have to hang up.
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Nancy R:
HaileyMcComet:
beatlesfanrandy:
And yet, we still say "dial" the number.
And hang up. When's the last time you hung up a phone?
All the time. I still have a land line with 4 phones that you have to hang up.
My black rotary phone sits on top of the china cabinet, for younger people to remark, "what's that thing?"
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steven ambrozat:
Nancy R:
HaileyMcComet:
beatlesfanrandy:
And yet, we still say "dial" the number.
And hang up. When's the last time you hung up a phone?
All the time. I still have a land line with 4 phones that you have to hang up.
My black rotary phone sits on top of the china cabinet, for younger people to remark, "what's that thing?"
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Nancy R:
All the time. I still have a land line with 4 phones that you have to hang up.
Do you have an answering machine? I haven't seen one of those in ages.
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The original Caller ID (on a rotary phone): "Who the H*** is this?!?"
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HaileyMcComet:
Nancy R:
All the time. I still have a land line with 4 phones that you have to hang up.
Do you have an answering machine? I haven't seen one of those in ages.
Yes, on the phone in my office. I like a home phone that you pick up the receiver and then the buttons are on the actual phone. I have another one like that I just bought for my bedroom. The other 2 have the buttons in the receiver, but you still hang them up. They are older phones though.
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Here's a video of a child who doesn't know how to hang up a phone.
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HaileyMcComet:
Here's a video of a child who doesn't know how to hang up a phone.
The guy sounded like Ben Stiller.
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And now, for a musical interlude. This recording may be a little too quiet at first. So you may need to disturb his slumber. But be careful when you do.
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There was always music playing in my house My Dad used to like this Tokens ~ The Lion Slerps Tonite
Herb Alpert and his Teeny Weeny Brass Band ~ Tiajuana Taxi Virgil Fox at the John Wannamaker Organ Handal's Messiah J.S. Bach Music for Organ an Harpsichord W.A. Mozart Rachmaninov Tchaikovsky Beethoven Chopin Vivaldi Grieg too Ravel Strauss Wagner Pachebel Segovia Sinatra Elvis Ska Then came the Beatles and it was a family affair. -
Does anyone remember the loud noise from the TV test pattern, after the channel went off air, and it woke you up, so you went down to wake your parent up on the sofa
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beatlesfanrandy:
I started my Beatles collection at the age of 7 in 1964 with Meet The Beatles. My only other rock records for the next two years were some Beatles LPs and singles. Then in 1966 I got Last Train To Clarksville on 45 and the first Monkees album. Other favorite childhood records I remember having were the Soundtrack to Mary Poppins, the first two Chipmunks LP's, Military Marches of the Armed Forces, and The Sounds of the Mercury Spaceflights recorded by NASA. My parents on the other hand had a nice music collection and I also grew up listening to their records like Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, Jim Reeves, soundtracks to South Pacific and Victory at Sea, Barbra Streisand, and Johnny Mathis. Ahh...the Sixties!
My first "rock" album was Cream - Disraeli Gears. I loved the song Sunshine of Your Love on the radio so I bought the album. I was 11.
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Disraeli Gears is excellent And "Take it Back" never fails to put a smile on my face. I remember SoYL on the box at the Teen Rec Center. McCambridge Park, Burbank, Ca in '68. And Deep Purple/"Hush".
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Audley's Piano:
Disraeli Gears is excellent And "Take it Back" never fails to put a smile on my face. I remember SoYL on the box at the Teen Rec Center. McCambridge Park, Burbank, Ca in '68. And Deep Purple/"Hush".
1968: Classical Gas (the song, not indigestion), by Mason Williams. Another instrumental I remember from that year: Love is Blue, by Paul Mauriat.
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steven ambrozat:
Audley's Piano:
Disraeli Gears is excellent And "Take it Back" never fails to put a smile on my face. I remember SoYL on the box at the Teen Rec Center. McCambridge Park, Burbank, Ca in '68. And Deep Purple/"Hush".
1968: Classical Gas (the song, not indigestion), by Mason Williams
I love that song! I even bought his book, The Mason Williams Reading Matter! Still have it! http://www.bing.com/search?q=the+mason+williams+reading+matter&form=PRHPCS&pc=HPDTDFJS&mkt=en-us&refig=1331a53949e84edea84b9b9a6bda9957&qs=AS&pq=the+mason+will&sk=AS3&sc=6-14&sp=5&cvid=1331a53949e84edea84b9b9a6bda9957
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Mason Williams and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour! Jim Webb and Richard Harris and "MacArthur Park" from the album, "A Tramp Shining"!
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Audley's Piano:
Disraeli Gears is excellent And "Take it Back" never fails to put a smile on my face. I remember SoYL on the box at the Teen Rec Center. McCambridge Park, Burbank, Ca in '68. And Deep Purple/"Hush".
My first junior high dance was Sunshine of Your Love and then Light My Fire.
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It was the 80s but I liked the 60s