2005.02.15
Great Musical Influences
Everyone has a few seminal influences in their choices of music. These are often first albums in a person’s life and are favorites forever. In my case it was a record I sort of stole from my Dad. It was Snoopy and his friends, The Royal Guardsmen.
I picked up this CD a few days ago. What a nostalgic journey to my childhood. The CD contains two albums in one, actually, but the second one is the important part. It tells the story of Snoopy fighting the Red Baron in the skies over Europe in WWI in three songs, with three introductions. The introductions have all sorts of accents; various British and French accents mostly. Listening to it, I realized that this is probably where I learned how to speak with any accent at all, and probably why I can mimic most any accent with some ease.
And the music… Music can always take you back to a time long forgotten. I remember listening to Snoopy’s adventures with Chris on our old sky blue box record player. Over and over. The tunes and the story they told were like nothing I’d heard or heard since. The great thing is I can still listen to the music over and over again. Maybe I can even get a replacement for the LP I lost of my Dad’s so many years ago. I think he’d like that.
Categorized: audio family memories
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