Old Enough to Forget

When I was a kid for a long time (kid time) my record collection was one album - Dynamite . Then it doubled when I bought Canadian Mint . Of course my memory is a tad flawed, but it wasn't until '75 I bought Four Wheel Drive as my first real album and I had those K-tel records for what seemed like forever. Dynamite and Canadian Mint were indelible records. For a generation who grew up on these weirdly edited hits and oddly sequenced collections we owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Philip Kives who managed to make Winnipeg Manitoba the centre of the musical universe ... for a little while.  I was feeling a tad nostalgic the other day and decided to see if I could find my musical Rosetta Stone records. Apparently there are others like me, and when I asked about them Bob pointed me to a section that was set aside for K-tel compilations.  Oooh. While it wasn't a huge section it did yield not one, but two very nice copies of Dynamite at two very different price points ... and I ...

By 1974 Andy Kim was already a pretty established writer and performer. Most of us kids knew "Sugar Sugar" but couldn't have told you who wrote or sang it ... it was The Archies and that was that. Of course everything is processed through a lens and there's a huge difference between what I was able to process as an eleven year old who was obsessed with the radio and music and the knowledge and trivia I have accumulated over the intervening decades ... decades . Good lord, when did I get old? Andy Kim was the eponymous release on ICE records in 1974, and it was distributed here in Canada by London Records. The song everyone, and I mean EVERYONE knows is "Rock Me Gently" a song that was made to sing along too. Like so many others back in the day much of my record collection was comprised of K-Tel anthologies, and there were two that I played until I almost wore the needle through the vinyl. Canadian Mint . 22 songs that were carefully edited and condensed to ...

I'm still trying to dig out from under my pile of treasures. I'm finding there are a little more to go through than I expected, but I'm trying to nest my thoughts and at least get to the core of what I'm trying to express. Likely as not I'm sort of all over the place. That's fine. This is as much for me as anyone, so the typos and grammatical landmines come with the territory. Sometimes I'll come back and fix things more often than not they'll just remain as a testament to my inability to proofread. As always have fun and remember to keep you arms and head inside the vehicle at all times. Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain (1982) The Inmates - Shot in the Dark (1980) Steven Schlaks - Dream With Steven Schlaks (1976) Baron Longfellow - Baron Longfellow (1980) Doucette - The Douce is Loose (1979) Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain (1982) Billy Joel is a bit of an odd duck. Often pigeonholed as the "Piano Man" he would go on a tear through the late...