That's right!
Happy anniversary...
Guess we know what'll be on the radio all day today, huh? LOL

I'm going to throw my vinyl copy onto one of the turntables and let it rip right now!

Good stuff!!! It cannot possibly be FORTY years, tho!!!! nunh unh...no way!

Why am I feeling OLD right now? Grinning!

fawnridge,
that cannot be a Dr. Frank N Furter Rocky Horror Picture Show Picture Disc with that sly red sequined platform shoe and fishnet hose slinking down over your Sgt Pepper can it?

I have one too, they are collector's items!

Tim Curry was so very, well, (catch bottom lip in teeth, roll eyes up and preen) LUSCIOUS in those days!

bihai - good catch. Now if you had identified Frank Zappa's goatee to the right of it, I would really have been impressed.

Here's the rest of the wall:

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Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers that grow so incredibly hiiiiiiiigh....

What a great day to kick back, watch the rain and groove to the Beatles :)

What's even funnier is that I remember sitting in front of the TV waiting in anticipation for the Beathes 1st performance on the Ed Sullivan show!! Yikes, that is old...haha

Doing the garden, digging the weeds
Who could ask for more?

Now that I'm 54!

That is a wonderful wall! Why oh why didn't I save all my vinyl? I do still have everything done by Queen though :)

Outstanding collection, Ricky!! Now if you just had some of MY 45's up there...Elvis, Carl Perkins, the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, etc, etc, etc. I go back another decade's worth of music, or more. (Definitely MORE. I remember Johnny Ray, Frankie Laine, Your Hit Parade, and even farther back than that. Good grief...I'm OLDER n' DIRT!!)

Anyway, love your vinyl, and that you care enough to have it displayed so perfectly!!

And 40 years ago today.............my, my how time does fly. Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64? (Reckon I'll find that out NEXT year!)

Marcia

I kept all of mine. I have an original Dramarama album that's worth pretty big bucks.

bihai - I've 4000 pieces of vinyl, a lifetime of collecting that still includes the very first album I ever bought - Alvin and the Chipmunks in see-through red vinyl and gold foil cover.

Fawnridge, I love those colored vinyl records. My parents had some and my favorite was a pretty green one. Don't know who the artist was or what the song was but the chorus was "cool, cool, water". I just loved that and would listen to it over and over again!

Tannatonk, I remember that song too!

I have always liked songs that told a story. "Rose's Cantina" and "You Picked a fine time to leave me Lucille," "Ruby, don't take your love to town" are other favorites.. My imagination illustrated these songs as I listened.

Great collection Ricky!

Lisa

Here is a link that might be useful: Cool Water song

*me singing, here*
"Keep a-movin', Dan,
Doncha listen to him, Dan,
He's a devil not a man,
And he spreads the burnin' sand
With water....
Cool, clear water..."

hehehe...the song is Cool Water and at least one version of it was sung by Marty Robbins, though I think it was recorded earlier than that by another band.

Marcia

OMG I used to have that same Alvin and the Chipmunks!!!!!!
My parents had stuff like Alan Funk (comedian...sang "hello mudda hello fadda here I am at Camp Granada") and the Cajun comedian (forgot his name) who always said "I Gar-UN-TEE!"
I have no idea what happened to all that stuff.
I guess we have maybe 300-400 albums...nowhere near your 4000!!!!

WOW Memory Lane!! My folks bought a Magnavox record player=turn table stereo unit that was almost as big as the sofa!! My italian father loved music and every Sunday it spun out tunes...Mantovani, Mancini (my Dad's younger brother was a college roomate with him) 1,000 Violins and every Italian singer-Sinatra, Perry Como, and Connie Francis vinyl he could find. He also would lay with on the living room floor with me when the Ed Sullivan show came on Sunday nights. There was Barbara Streisand in a boaters outfit singing her heart out and Lena Horne-he used to tell me I looked like her. I was surprised he even enjoyed The Monkeys, Herman and the Hermits, The Supremes, THE BEATLES and even naughty Mick and the Rolling Stones. Sonny and Cher was one of his fav shows....Sonny was born on the same day as me and sent me a B'Day card one year after I wrote him...teenage HEAVEN!! "I GOT YOU BABE"

Oh Yeah....40 years ago today I was 16...HOW BOUT YOU? Fess up!

bihai - I have all three of Alan Sherman's records (not Alan Funk, who was the producer of Candid Camera.) The Cajun guy was Justin Wilson and he had one of the first cooking shows (PBS or in NY/NJ - channel 13.)

cindee - I was 13 just about to turn 14.

17 oh my! what a summer !!!!!! (talk about gardening, eh????) *smile* ..there is a house in New Orleans...they call the risin' sun............!!!!!

14 - and it was my first summer with a boyfriend! Joey Hebert was such a young hottie. Oh my god, what great memories. I smoked cigarettes for 6 weeks that summer, of course because Joey smoked. Realized I hated cigarettes but thought I looked totally cool while smoking. Gave up the butts but kept the boyfriend for a while.

The first album I ever purchased? Meet the Beatles!

Oh Brag Brag Brag Ricky you were just a snot nosed 13yr old while I was a maturing 16! My Dad had the "Hello Mudda, hello Faddah...here I am at Camp.......they said we'd have some fun if it stops raining" album. He also played that on Sunday

Ohhhhh Bethie, now you are digging into Eric Burton and the Animals there!

What about good Ol "It's My Party and I'll Cry If I want to..."? Leslie Gore anyone?

Ricky you opened up a can of Oldies but Goodies Worms for sure! FAR OUT!!! Let's Twist Again like we did last summer! (wait a minute, the only thing I twist any more is my ankles!)

An oldies PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anybody remember the local radio station when you were that age? In Fargo ND it was KUTT - "Cutie"!

That's right! Alan Sherman! Forgot his name but I can still remember his photo on the album cover.
My first album I ever bought for myself was Black Sabbath, then Led Zepplin, followed by KISS a bit later, followed by Slayer in the early 80's. My taste in gardening music is a bit different than you guys LOL

I was wondering on Friday why they were playing the entire album on 105.9! I was worried Ringo or Paul died because when George passed they played Beatles 24/7 for several days. Love the Beatles!

Oh my, I was 13 and still playing with Barbie. Dad kept me in a thermos bottle for years!! LOL I've never purchased music just took with was on the radio. I love the 50's and country.

Bihai, you have some of the same favorites as me. I just got Ozzy's new cd and it's great. My husband is always singing that Alan Sherman song and Soupy Sales "Do The Mouse"!!! We both love KISS and I've seen them 7x.

Ok, I was 7, but I know I had the Sgt. Pepper album. I must have stolen it from my older brother, who influenced me a lot. He got me into Black Sabbath and ELP. I wish I still had my little Ringo doll that I bought at Woolworth's. I bet I could get some money for it on Ebay!lol
Julie

Interesting note - the two copies of the Sgt. Peppers picture disk in the first photo, were purchased from a revolving rack at EJ Korvettes in West Orange, NJ - cost: 25 cents each.

Julie,
glad to meet another with similar interests.
I am a confirmed heavy metal and punk hardcore fan. You know how Ozzie says in his new single "All my life I'm gonna go til I drop?" Well I guess that's me. KISS was just the beginning LOL.
I have my faves like anyone else (Slayer, Slipknot, old Venom) but I am always open to new bands too. I love Lamb of God, Chimaira, Devil Driver and of course all that old hokey glam and hair metal warms my heart!