Kitchen Table Kibitzing 2/26/2018 — #FirstAlbum Music Monday

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Nothing is Off the Table

But PLAY NICE!

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Pure music monday, today. So here’s the question for you all, what was the very first album you bought and in what format (Vinyl, CD, 8 track tape, cassette, digital, etc)? 

I know that there’s a wide variety of music lovers here and on Daily Kos in the wider audience, too. So c’mon folks, fess up...

I picked up the Jackson Five’s “ABC” Album in vinyl, at America the Beautiful Dreamer store in downtown Vancouver, Washington in 1971 when I was 10 years old (I used lawn mowing money to buy it); it was the cover you see on the still here of the cover tune:  ‘ABC’

But my favorite cut from the album has always been: 

The Love You Save 

This was just about the same time Donny Osmond hit the charts and he and Michael Jackson had a couple years where they were competing hard for the shrieking pre-teen girls of America. 

With songs like 1971’s The Osmonds “One Bad Apple”:

followed with a single by Donny in 1972 with the teen angsty “Puppy Love”: 

and then there’s this — 

This weekend I spent a lot of time sleeping, trying to avoid politics (and not doing a very good job of it) but I did read four entire books since Friday evening. Now, for most people that would be an outstanding number of books to read in a year, or even a month, much less a fortnight or a week. But a weekend? 

For more than ten years, I regularly read one to three books a day. I was married to a fellow who didn’t want me to have an outside job, just keep house, shop and cook and clean and plan all of our social events which were dinner parties and full-service poker night once a month. It was a different era, and that lifestyle suited me, too, at the time.

I read a great deal in that decade and it wasn’t all romance novels (although a lot of it was, for quite some time — I heartily recommend “A Knight in Shining Armor” by Jude Deveraux to everyone. It’s a rom-com story with a bit of time travel, some historical bits of interest and a love story for the ages).

But that’s a question for another monday.