Not nursery rhymes or lullabies, what is the first real music you can remember hearing in your life?
I can remember vividly the music, time, and place. 1974, my dad was still in the Air Force and we were living in housing on Carswell AFB. I was two and a half years old and my dad bought the Jim Croce Greatest Hits Album "Photographs and Memories" that had just been released a year after Croce died in a plane crash. My dad plopped me down on an ottoman and put that record on and played it for hours while we listened and I held that album cover looking at that funny mustache in all of the pictures. Dad listened to that album over and over for weeks.
Somehow those songs were imprinted in my brain. I have never once purchased a Croce song or album and can go ten years without hearing one played on the radio but each time the lyrics and notes come to me without fail. I know every word and note of "Time in a Bottle", "Operator", and "Bad Bad Leroy Brown". Hearing those songs always brings my mind right back to that time and place when I heard them for the first time.
I can remember vividly the music, time, and place. 1974, my dad was still in the Air Force and we were living in housing on Carswell AFB. I was two and a half years old and my dad bought the Jim Croce Greatest Hits Album "Photographs and Memories" that had just been released a year after Croce died in a plane crash. My dad plopped me down on an ottoman and put that record on and played it for hours while we listened and I held that album cover looking at that funny mustache in all of the pictures. Dad listened to that album over and over for weeks.
Somehow those songs were imprinted in my brain. I have never once purchased a Croce song or album and can go ten years without hearing one played on the radio but each time the lyrics and notes come to me without fail. I know every word and note of "Time in a Bottle", "Operator", and "Bad Bad Leroy Brown". Hearing those songs always brings my mind right back to that time and place when I heard them for the first time.
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