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Devious Inner circle 2120 Posts |
When your folks told you that your music stunk
And now it's classic rock! Please add your own remember when... |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
Remember your first transistor radio? Or eight track recorders and the Beta-Max?
Or how about seeing Hitchcock's "Psycho" in a drive-in when it was a new release and no one knew how it ended? |
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irossall Special user Snohomish, Washington 529 Posts |
Talking to a real person when you DIALED the operator.
Your Doctor coming to your home when you were sick. Full service gas station where the attendant put gas in your car and checked your oil, tires, washed your Windows and gave you a free road map and gas was 28¢ a gallon. Two feature movies, newsreels and cartoons before and after each movie at your local movie theatre. TV repairman came to your home to fix your tv and left you a "loaner" if he had to take your set to the shop. Candy bars were 5¢ and much larger than today. Love walking down memory lane . Iven
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Devious Inner circle 2120 Posts |
Remember when "Walk-Mans" were $100.00
Now you can pick one up for a buck or two at Goodwill/Salvation Army |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
Remember those circular plastic adapter disks that you had to put onto 45 RPM records to get them to fit on the spindle of your record player? I'll bet if you showed one of those to someone born after 1980 or so, he/she would have no idea what it was or what it was used for.
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
What scares the hell out of me is that I am now old enough to actually like the music that they play at the super market.
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
The real "Day the Music Died" is when they invented Muzak. (I nearly went insane stuck in an elevator listening to the Muzak version of "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.")
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
Remember when you thought threads like this were corny and now you have a hundred things to say?
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2013-10-17 19:49, mastermindreader wrote: In defense of Muzak (sort of), the original "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" is pretty bad, too.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
Agreed. That sequence is, I think, the weakest part of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It seems that at one time every major movie release had to have a song associated with it which would be release as a record when the film was released. Sometimes the songs were completely out of place.
On the other hand, there were songs that are associated with movies that never are heard in the film, like "Sink the Bismark" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." (Just cracked myself up trying to imagine Musak versions of those!) But, funny enough, even the absolute worst songs that I remember from my younger days, invariably conjure up vivid memories of where I was and what I was doing when I first heard them. Maybe that's why I still enjoy a lot of bad music. They're kind of an auditory time machine Another memory- Since today would have been my grandfathers 113th birthday I just remembered how gleeful he was when he got one of those little monkeys that banged cymbals together as a Christmas gift back in the late sixties or early seventies. Remember those? I think it was one of the most popular toys that Christmas season and nowadays fetches a good price at collectors' markets. |
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
I had one of those Monkeys. I also had several of the other things already named.
The sappy songs were put in the middle of action movies to give guys a chance to make-out with their girlfriend. (Roberta Flack singing in "Play Misty For Me" for example). The day the music truly died was when Muzak released their first Beatles song. The first song that made my Mom throw the record across the room was Ina-Gadda-Davida. I'm not sure even the classic rock stations claim that one. Ha! Remember: ...when certain canned goods, like coffee, came with a key attached to the top? ...when phone numbers had no area code? ...party lines? ...when mailing addresses had no zip codes? ...when elevators had operators? ...when milk was delivered to your house? ...when the paper boy came by to collect payment? ...when re-runs only happened at the end of the regular season? ...rooftop antennas, or rabbit ears, or the related uses for tinfoil? ...Pong? ...being warned not to cut your foot on a pop top? ...when a day at the beach smelled like coconuts, and the day after smelled like Noxema? ...when your doctor smoked? ...flash bulbs, flash bars, and flash cubes? ...Maypo? ...the sound of a knife getting the last of the mayonnaise from a glass jar? ...Sugar Smacks? ...Peter Max art? ...gum that came with trading cards? ...cringing when your friend tells you about being spanked with a piece of Hot Wheels track? ...test patterns? ...Schwinn Stingrays? ...wax lips? ...Rat Finks? ...when more houses gave out candy on Halloween then didn't? ...Incredible Edibles and Gobble De Goop?
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
YES!!! I remember all of those things.
"I want my Maypo!" How about the "Magic Fingers" beds in motel rooms that vibrated when you put in a quarter? The hallmark of luxury! Or the tinted plastic sheets that fit over your black and white television screen to give you "color TV?" |
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motown Inner circle Atlanta by way of Detroit 6127 Posts |
When you got a real person on the line who was actually in the US.
When you could fly to a Europe for a couple of hundred bucks. When the Beatles were together.
"If you ever write anything about me after I'm gone, I will come back and haunt you."
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Kids still got polio?
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
When Sunday night meant Ed Sullivan.
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George Ledo Magic Café Columnist SF Bay Area 3042 Posts |
When Cracker Jack had real toys inside? Small but real?
That's our departed buddy Burt, aka The Great Burtini, doing his famous Cups and Mice routine
www.georgefledo.net Latest column: "Sorry about the photos in my posts here" |
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Slide Special user 533 Posts |
Triple features.
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Slide Special user 533 Posts |
Movie of the week. I don't know if you had this elsewhere, but in Phily, they used to have a thing they called The Movie of the Week, usually sponsored by plastic skip cover commercials featuring "The Masked Announcer" a big guy with a busy beard and and mask on. He would say, don't buy these slip covers because they'll keep stains off your furniture, buy them for my mom. And he would hold up some ancient photo in a antique frame of some old lady. The masked announcer was actually Joel Dorn, famed jazz record producer who did these commercials as a lark for a friend of his.
The movie of the week would run the same movie 8 times. 7 days a week and twice on sunday. I fell in love with Rita Tushingham watching her in this film called The Trap. Watched it all 8 times. |
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
Continuous showings. Getting up to leave, because "this is where we came in."
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
In the NYC metro area we had "Million Dollar Movie," which showed the same classic movie every night for a week. It's theme song was the title music from "Gone With the Wind." It's where I first saw "Mighty Joe Young" and "King Kong."
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