Comments on: The music of my childhood

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:23:25 +0000

I think my parents were probably a bit behind the times, too! I remember being a teenager and discovering the punk bands of the 1970s/80s and just being blown away. I guess in a few years I’ll get to the stuff that was popular when I was an actual teen.

By: Friar

Friar — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:10:22 +0000

Really?

HAHAH!

I’m born in 64 and this is all stuff I grew up with. Therefore, I assumed you were roughly the same age (but I was puzzled because your avatar looks too young to be a 45 year old)

But I’m kinda like you. I really like the Beatles and all the 60′s music. As a teenager, my taste music was 15-20 years behind the times.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:03:20 +0000

I never knew that! It must have been a wild ride to go from being a Motown artist to a disco diva. I just Diana Ross.

Does anyone remember the movie The Wiz with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson? My sister and I loved that more than the original Wizard of Oz.
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By: Tracy

Tracy — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:01:08 +0000

I was born in 1974!

When my kids do their music of childhood posts in 20 years, people will think they were born in the 1980s – they listen to Pet Shop Boys a lot and their all time favorite song is Eye of the Tiger. We have Eye of the Tiger singalongs in the car; we are just.that.awesome.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:59:27 +0000

I forgot about Love Will Keep Us Together. I loved that! We used to watch Solid Gold all the time, too.

You should do a post! I’d love to read it.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:58:40 +0000

I think there is something very comforting about familiar music.

My kids are always amazed that I know the words to almost every song. That’s so cute.
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By: Tracy

Tracy — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:57:02 +0000

I love how he is so unabashedly himself. Him and Tom Jones are awesome. Awesome!
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By: Tracy

Tracy — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:53:39 +0000

Ahhh! If only we’d had blogs back then. You would have had an awesome one!

Elton John is one of my all time favorites but I didn’t start listening to him until high school. That’s where I learned all the music that my friends had grown up with.
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By: Rick Swartz

Rick Swartz — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:52:01 +0000

That song is from Diana Ross as well. according to songfacts.com: “Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards wrote this and produced it. They were the leaders of the ’70s Disco band Chic, and brought that Disco sound to Ross for this album. Rodgers got the idea for the song when he went to a transvestite club in New York City. He went to the bathroom, and while he was standing at the urinal, he saw 3 men who looked like Diana Ross. “Coming Out” means coming out of the closet and being openly gay.”
Source: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=4855

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:51:59 +0000

Looking back now, I have no idea how I used to sleep with headphones on. Ouch. Actually, my sister and I shared a room and she used headphones on her non-Sony brand walkman and I just listened to the radio very quietly on my non-Sony brand boombox. Then one night, I was listening and they played Rock The Casbah to announce the beginning of Gulf War I and decided no more radio in my sleep.

Here is my favorite cover of Funkytown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdArUGPJk3w
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