If you remember when record players like this were new and that little yellow spindle adapter you had to use to play your 45s...Well, you've come to the right place. Welcome.
If you remember when phones had a busy signal and no call-waiting..., if you remember when all the phone companies all across the country had the last name "bell"-..if you remember when you were "the remote" and your mama or daddy made you stand there until you got the right station...If you remember when the NBC peacock went from black and white to color...
If you remember Etch-A-Sketch and trying like hell to make a circle with it... If you remember when Motown was our sound-----"The Sound of Young America", and continued to revolutionize the musical backdrop of our nation....Well...you've come to the right place...
If you remember when phones had a busy signal and no call-waiting..., if you remember when all the phone companies all across the country had the last name "bell"-..if you remember when you were "the remote" and your mama or daddy made you stand there until you got the right station...If you remember when the NBC peacock went from black and white to color...
If you remember Etch-A-Sketch and trying like hell to make a circle with it... If you remember when Motown was our sound-----"The Sound of Young America", and continued to revolutionize the musical backdrop of our nation....Well...you've come to the right place...
Welcome to the Real School Blog...
And feel freee to post as a toast!!!
Teira
3 comments:
I remember the first James Brown record in our house. It was called Out-a-sight, on SMASH records! I was mesmerized--did not understand a word James said, but I could feel that bottomless groove even then. Shortly thereafter PAPAS Got a Brand New Bag was the hit,. Thus began a love affair with FUNK/R&B/SOUL MUSIC that persists to this day. Sly’s Dance to the Music was the next EYE/EAR opener for me that and SEX MACHINE on Sly’s STAND album (my head begins to bob just thinking' and hearing' that groove in my head) WHEW, And let's not talk about JIMI--not listed in the R&B pantheons but...but...Well I think you know.
I must admit I thought SUGAR HILLS RAPPERS DELIGHT was an abomination--punishable by stoning' them basta_ds until their corpses no longer resembled people, much like I thought their "music” no longer resembled music. MY views have changed...I am not sure if it is because the sheer weight of BAD, hackneyed rap/hip hop out there that even that crap sounds good now or if I have come to genuinely appreciate the art...hmmm...the jury is out on that. (How can you just STEAL licks? and call it your own...) Disco was another aberration, boil on the body of dance music (Disco=dance music for the rhythmically challenged- music you could have involuntary convulsions and still be on beat) When I heard Disco Duck and Beethoven’s 9th done to disco... I knew the apocalypse was near!
I have strayed every now & then... I even bought an easy listening jazz CD at one time (speaking' of involuntary convulsions...yech) But I always come back to the groove!!! Long live the funk!
I am proud to see Real School people come back on the scene. Good music never die, it is rediscovered by new listeners. May you keep making music that feed the spirit and touch the soul.
Teira you are truly a sister of the universe. I hope you and your friends the best of luck.
I remember those yellow spindle's perfectly. I was the first one on my block to have it. I grew up with my dad in the music advertising business and started before I could walk from big bands to the very BEST of rock n roll. I believe the 60's ers was the best music ever and the beat of my heart.
Thank you for bringing us back home and including me.
xooxox
crickett
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