Reunited.
Last week I blogged regarding a lost song from childhood, convinced that due to obscurity - it was lost forever. BUT NOT TRUE. I often forget that this blog can, and is read on occasion by a unknown visitors from cyberspace. Apparently, while doing a lyric search, my new dear friend Jo - stumbled across my blog and the small snippet of lyrics i had typed from my distant memory...
And what-do-you-know - JO correctly identified this missing song and provided a link for me to purchase it on iTunes! It now happily sits in my collection and I have forwarded it to family members to share in the reunion joy. Eric quickly found a rather colorful gentleman from Ontario - who is also a fan of the song and decided to prove it on YouTube.
Enjoy! I am and so is this guy.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Best toy I never got
OK - I REALLY wanted one of these baby's! Some may think that my yearn for a girl's toy at such an early age was some kind of sign. They would be wrong.
My keen interest in this toy was centered squarely on the concept of Food Production.
I was a hungry kid - and just the idea of making cake in my bedroom without the need [ or permission] of a parental unit was an Amazing concept.
Never got the Easy-Bake. But by 7th grade i had moved into the REAL KITCHEN. Mom did not seem to mind me pulling out her old Betty Crocker cookbook and making ALOT of cake.
I just had to have it all cleaned up before dinner time. I did not waste my time with anything savory. Just cake. and cookies. and pasteries. And alot of red food dye.
The Cake Baking phase died out thankfully - but I still have an embedded love for Kitchens.
Best toy ever
I had a Close and Play just about the time this commercial came out. I am not sure if I asked for it or not - but it was love all the same. If you see in the video - the white knob on the front - that's a volume knob. If you wanted extra volume - i think turning the knob drove the needle down harder on the record. Cleaver idea. A couple of plays with extra volume and voila! - you get a box full of black shavings! cool!
I had a very special source for records. The Dry cleaning man. Yes - back in 1972[?] the Dry cleaning man [ along with the milk man..] delivered right to your house. And the dry cleaning man also brought old promo records from the AM radio station in town. WEBO! So I had a special psychedelic colored record box full of records of songs nobody wanted to hear.
I had one favorite record. "You keep me hangin' on" - you've heard it before?
No you haven't.
Despite the title similar to a Supreme's[?] song - this one was completely different.
"You keep me hangin' on...
You keep my love so strong..
You keep me
hangin'
hangin'
hangin'
You keep my love SO strong......"
The record got some major airplay in the house over the years. It became even MORE entertaining when Kristin and I figured out that if you put my electric record player on the Neutral setting - you could play the record at whatever speed your finger could spin the record. If you swung around the play arm - you could play it backwards.
That's right! Al Gore may have invented the InterWeb,
but I invented record Scatchin'!
It always turned into one of those events where an 8 and 7 year old are laughing so hard - their tummies hurt big time. And Mom would yell from the kitchen to STOP WHATEVER WE ARE DOING because it is sure to be BAD if we are laughing that hard.
I have searched for the record - but alas - it was a promo.
A promo that never saw a dime -0
So I think all 43 copies of the record are resting in landfills now. Sigh.
UPDATE!!
While I have never been on to rely on the kindness of [ internet] strangers, a visotr to my blog this week - Jo - correctly identified my long lost song!
