Posted on 08/23/2016 9:22:51 AM PDT by simpson96
Hope you enjoy. I Love How You Love Me.
music *ping*
Great song. Short but great.
Wow! Isn’t this special! Waking up with a song your heart
A song remembered with fondness and filled with such sweet harmony Another old 45 scratched and worn thin by constant play. Where has the music gone?
Memories of the school gym, socks, low lights, and standing, swaying slowly (dancing) with your dreamboat which you fail to see cause your eyes were closed.
Missed you these past weeks and more than happy to you are back!
Another old 45 scratched and worn thin by constant play
LOL and so began the predecessor of an 8 track player, cassettes and CDs. Ingenious! That would find a challenge to work on today’s roads. Filled with pot holes. The first stereo owned as a sweet young thing was a cheap turntable enclosed in something like an old suitcase with a lid that was removable completely. Eventually the lid was never used as so many of the 33RPMs were broken due to a jar and the lid slamming down on its own, breaking the record.
A question on a completely different subject, the Dodge...was it a model with the push button transmission? Mom and Dad had a Dodge with that type and it never ceased to be an oddity as a youngster. Children love push buttons!!
I don’t remember if it had a push button tranny, although the newly-introduced Edsels did.
The first stereo I ever heard was in the early fifties when two radio stations broadcast the two different stereo tracks of a song. We sat down between two radios to listen and marvel.
I suppose my favorite stereo was purchased in the mid-sixties and was comprised of a pair of black and white cubes about two feet to a side. Each cube was on roller wheels and painted to look like a die, so it looked like a large pair of dice. The cubes could be moved independent of each other, only connected by wiring. Each cube had one speaker while one had a top that lifted up to reveal a turntable and the other lifted up for record storage. I would get stoned, lie down between the two speakers, and listen to Richard Burton performing Hamlet.
Graduated from HS in the 60’s and as an ‘adult’ found Richard Burton in his performance of Camelot. Still have the LP of his songs sung in his performance. You must be much more high brow than I :-) as to his actual performance he wasn’t seen until he filmed Where Eagles Dare That film was a favorite to be seen again and again. *perhaps because of Clint Eastwood?* Not even Cleopatra was a close second. Sandpiper was seen and soon forgotten.
In the late summer and early fall of 1961, when this song was riding the charts, I was in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, living in a semi-rural neighborhood by a stream.
Did you hear the song over there? Did they play American music on the radio?
German radio stations didn't play a lot of American music, but they often played German versions of American songs. I recall hearing Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Honolulu Strand [beach] Bikini on a German radio station in November, 1961. This version of Brian Hyland's smash Stateside hit was sung by Caterina Valente, an Italian songstress who had a string of hits in Germany.
Some American singers also released songs in German. Connie Francis scored big in Germany with Die Liebe ist ein Seltsames Spiel (Love is a weird game), better known to Statesiders as Everybody's Somebody's Fool.
However, German musical tastes were considerably different from American, and pop music fans in the Federal Republic went for songs like Peter Kraus's Schwarze Rosen, Rosemarie (black roses, Rosemarie), from December, 1961. Oddly enough, the setting for this song is somewhere in the Missouri River valley.
Interesting stuff! Thanks.
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