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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.
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In November's gusty gale I will flop my flippy tail
And spout hot soup. I'll be a whale!
Spouting once, spouting twice, spouting chicken soup with rice.
In December I will be a baubled, baubled Christmas tree
with soup bowls draped all over me.
Merry once, merry twice, merry chicken soup with rice.