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hummingwolf) wrote2004-11-17 08:39 pm
hummingwolf) wrote2004-11-17 08:39 pm
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If people ask me what was the first album I ever acquired, I usually answer with The Carpenters' Ticket To Ride, which I won at a school fair in the fifth grade when the people running the cakewalk ran out of cakes and decided to give away records instead. While I did have other records to listen to when I was small, they were Disney read-along things and LPs specially made for kids, not music I still listen to today.
If I'm asked about the first album I ever bought, I say Nik Kershaw's Human Racing, which I simply had to get after my friend Jenny told me it was impossible to find. (Okay, the fact that I loved the six Nik Kershaw songs she'd forced me to hear had some influence as well.)
But by some quirk of the mind, a word in another person's LJ post triggered a memory of going with my parents to Amway conventions when I was a child (yes, really), which reminded me of going to this ranch the summer before seventh grade. The ranch was (and is) run by Skip Ross, who was an Amway Crown Direct (rich guy, in other words) and still is a motivational speaker. Now that I remember, he was also the first person I ever bought an album by, though I can no longer tell you which one of these it was. (Why do they have no CDs on that page? Cassettes? What century are they living in?) Yes, my first music album purchase was by a motivational speaker. Scary, isn't it?
For the record, the first record (non-album) I ever bought was the 7" single of Carole King singing "Pierre" and "Chicken Soup with Rice," with lyrics and cover art by Maurice Sendak.
If I'm asked about the first album I ever bought, I say Nik Kershaw's Human Racing, which I simply had to get after my friend Jenny told me it was impossible to find. (Okay, the fact that I loved the six Nik Kershaw songs she'd forced me to hear had some influence as well.)
But by some quirk of the mind, a word in another person's LJ post triggered a memory of going with my parents to Amway conventions when I was a child (yes, really), which reminded me of going to this ranch the summer before seventh grade. The ranch was (and is) run by Skip Ross, who was an Amway Crown Direct (rich guy, in other words) and still is a motivational speaker. Now that I remember, he was also the first person I ever bought an album by, though I can no longer tell you which one of these it was. (Why do they have no CDs on that page? Cassettes? What century are they living in?) Yes, my first music album purchase was by a motivational speaker. Scary, isn't it?
For the record, the first record (non-album) I ever bought was the 7" single of Carole King singing "Pierre" and "Chicken Soup with Rice," with lyrics and cover art by Maurice Sendak.
Nik
(Anonymous) 2004-11-18 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)Hugs from Jenny
Re: Nik
Honestly, I have no idea where you might find RM on CD for a reasonable price. And yes, The Works was put out on CD--that was late enough in the '80s that the album may never have come out on LP, for all I know. (There was a joke somewhere that Nik's first two albums went platinum, Radio Musicola went gold, and The Works went cardboard.)
Erm, anyway. If you can't find them elsewhere and you have access to a CD burner, I might let you borrow my CDs to copy. :-)
Re: Nik
(Anonymous) 2004-11-19 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)Huggies!!!!!!!!!!!!!