Father Time
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1/20/2017 12:21:39 PM
Isn't it strange remembering the music moments of your life? These all happened in a car.
I have no idea why I remember what I do but I sure do remember.
When I was maybe 5 years old, riding in the car with my parents in York PA. I remember hearing King of the Road by Roger Miller, have no idea why it made such an impact on me.
On the road going to my first ever real baseball game, a big day for me. Up Up and Away by the 5th Dimension came on, pretty sure it was 67. It was at that point in time the best song I ever heard in my life. I still love it deeply, could listen 10 times in a row right now to that song.
On the road heading to my Aunt Bessie's house on Easter Sunday in 71, we went there every easter. I heard Harry Chapin's Taxi for the first time and fell in love with the song.
In the car, this time driving with friends along. We heard Miss You by the Stones for the first time and loved it.
Driving in this Oldsmobile I only owned for several months, had a fantastic echoey radio. Was driving the strip in Enola PA next to the Auto Paint shop when I first heard Elton's version of Lucy in the Sky, it blew me away, perhaps my favorite ever music in the car moment.
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fly on the wall
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1/21/2017 3:24:23 AM
I was at a class trip to a museum, we were sitting around bored in an auditorium, and 5 minutes before the program began, they started to play the song Love Is Blue by Paul Mauriat, and I felt like we were on the coolest class trip in the world.
The best times in my life were in my first car, driving around with my friends in high school. My parents owned a gas station so I got free gas and it was only 32 cents a gallon at that time anyway, We loved Elton John and whenever Philadelphia Freedom or Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting came on we would all sing at the top of our lungs.
When I was 12 years old I got my first tape recorder, a little reel-to-reel and I'd record songs off the radio. It was then I got lucky enough to be taping one day when they played Stairway to Heaven. I couldn't believe how great it was, played it for all my friends. I even came to like the song I taped after that for some unknown reason which was Beverly Bremers - Don't Say You Don't Remember.
I was sitting in the back of my parents' station wagon, it had 2 seats facing the rear, and the song Roundabout by Yes came on and the album it was on, Fragile, became the first album I ever spent my own money on.
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