I talked to someone last night and mentioned that I had recorded an album 'back in the dark ages' and that it was on vinyl. She cracked up. But my son has been wanting to buy a phonograph and it seems a bunch of the kids are into records. Isn't that funny?

I have an original Roy Orbison album, but as far as I know, the rest are long gone. Shame, too. I had all the Beatles!

Anyone else collect records? Or do you still have the originals?

Donna

I have all my 45s from high school, all my 33 LPs from college, and my mother's 78s from the 1940s. Good music is good music! I have a turntable and a source for the needles if this one breaks.

I just got my first CD player last year, so technology moves slowly around here.

Everything's coming back, yet industry continues to move full steam ahead when it comes to Ipod's, DVD's, and CD's.

I think it's fun that there's a segment of society who takes interest in the way things were when we were growing up.

I love it that some things never die. Others I could live without like boufant hairdos and stilleto heels (Uh oh, they're already back).

I love music memorabilia. I have a 100 yr. old player piano with lots of piano rolls. We sometimes sing to it when friends and family show up. I have a WWII army bugle that I played (extremely badly) at "Hands Across America" (anyone remember that?) and a hand cranked Victrola with a lot of old records. It's probably all just a bunch of junk, but they all work and I just love playing with them.

I have a ton of albums and 45's from my teens and one of myself singing (at a much younger and sillier age. Can't believe I did that!!)

I guess if we live long enough all the stuff from our childhood comes back in style.

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My mother still has all of her albums that we grew up on. I remember when it was house cleaning day...she would load the stereo up with all her country singing "YUCKS", clean and sing her heart out. The trouble is back then I hated the music and I had to help her clean. It was pure torture. There was one album and the singer I can't remember right now...but I remember the songs, "King of the Road", "You can't roller skate in a Buffaloe herd", "Dang it",...man if I heard that album once i've heard it a thousand times...I know those songs from the back of my mind.....Dumb sounding songs at the time when I was young. Now I sing them and have so much fun singing them cause I know the words....hehehe.

Now I hear those songs and I remember how I use to hate them and now I just sing right along with it. My son laughs at me and says "How do you know these songs" I just smile and say...Grandma use to play them when I was young. Funny how when you grow up those songs no longer seem "Yucky anymore.

She still has all my teenage albums of the Monkeys, Grand Funk Railroad, Led zepplin and all my musical albums of My Fair Lady, Sound of Music, Mary Poppins. I don't think her turntable phonograph works anymore but she still has her collection. I have begged her not to get rid of them cause I know they going to be worth something someday.

Man,,,,this going down memory lane makes me feel really old. Technology has come such a long way.

I remember those songs. I wonder if they're available on CD. Roger Miller who wrote them had a TV show and won several grammys. He went on to write the music for the Tony award winning musical, "Big River." I think he died a few years ago.

All that other stuff brings back memories too. It's interesting how many memorable songs make almost no sense. I guess they dont' have to.

Whew, I can almost feel my short term memory being short circuited by my long term memory. A sign of aging for sure.

But what a way to go!!

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Your post reminded me of my mom doing that same thing! LOL!!

The singer you 'hated' is Roger Miller, I believe. I remember all those same songs. My first crush was Ricky Nelson. I melted when he sang "Listen to the Rhythm of the Falling Rain."

I've always loved music. Mom says that when I was a baby, I used to 'dance my diaper down' when American Bandstand came on - the black and white version, of course!

Donna

Trailer for sale or rent
Rooms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no Rent
I aint got no cigarettes,
Ah, but two hours of pushing broom
Buys an eight by twelve four bit room
I am a man of means by no means

King of the Road

Third box car midnight train
destination Bangor, Maine
Old worn out suit and Shoes
I don’t pay no union dues

I smoke old stogies I have found
short but not too big around
I am a man of means by no means

King of the Road

I know every engineer on every train
all of the children and all of their names
And every hand out in every town
and every lock that aint locked when no one is around

Trailer for sale or rent
Rooms to let fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no Rent
I aint got no cigarettes,
Ah, but two hours of pushing broom
Buys an eight by twelve four bit room
I am a man of means by no means

King of the Road

Hehehehe!!! Thats the singer...Roger Miller...How in the world could I forget that name....But yesterday i went totally blank...that proves it...i'm getting old...my mind is going....Thanks for the words Jaw Jaw...I sat here an sang that song...lol....

Had to bring this post back because we were invited to a "vinyl party". Have you ever heard of such a thing?

Everyone brings vinyl music only. No tape cassettes, 8 tracks, CD's, or DVD's allowed.I have to get in the attic for this. I'm hoping I have some albums left up there. I don't save too much. If I can't find anything I may have to go exploring in my sister's basement!

Anyone have any good ones I can borrow?