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Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer
Some of my fondest memories of youth revolve around music. In the 1960’s when I was still a child virtually every song I ever heard came from a radio tuned to 77WABC on the AM dial, a powerful station in NYC that broadcast popular music of the day. At the age of ten my parents bought me a phonograph for my birthday and I began to buy records to play in my room after school. I think they were about 50 cents each around that time and there were two sides to each, the hit song you bought the record for and the flipside with a second cut.
I can still remember the titles of most of them, Indiana Wants Me, by R. Dean Taylor on the Rare Earth label- it was the only 45 I ever owned that was red- Cherokee People by Paul Revere and the Raiders, and Patches by Clarence Carter, one of my favorites to this day. The first album I bought was The Hollies He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother and I played it so often I literally wore it out. After that I switched over to albums and spent almost every cent I earned from my paper route on new ones; Carole King’s Tapestry, America’s self titled first album, and Don McClean’s American Pie.
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