Old Enough to Forget

I only bought this because of the cover. Thinking this would be so horrid I'd have to replace my needle and bleach my ears after playing it, I eagerly paid my dollar and gave it a good cleaning. The first thing to note is that despite a cover Yosh and Stan Schmenge would drool over, this was played straight and reminds me of my treasured Jim Gregrash records (if you know, you know). I can imagine The Mom and Dads killing it at a barn dance. Make no mistake, this was dance music, just not the dance music of my generation. This is fun, old-timey Christmas music, and frankly, considering three of the members were born before 1920 and the youngest was born in the early 1930s, they were older than most artists who were starting their careers. They'd only released their debut in 1970 a couple of years earlier. Late bloomers, I suppose. I honestly wasn't sure what to expect when I started looking up the band, but I wasn't expecting to see a bunch of gold and platinum CRIA cert...