This morning I got word from eBay that I was the highest bidder on the Papa John Creach CD called "One Way" at eBay – and am buying the CD from a seller in England. I’d almost forgotten that I’d bid on the CD in the first place.
Thirty years ago, TV PRODUCER had a copy of the record album. A record album. Imagine that. Now I’m buying the CD.
I am so glad that I will soon have the music that we used at our graduation 30 years ago. As I remember it, it’s a beautiful, almost haunting violin rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
It feels important to have that music at the reunion. I wonder how long it will take to get here from England. The seller better hurry. The reunion is a month away.
Now the e-mail group is talking about the mix tape we’ll be playing. OPERA SINGER and her son were planning to do an iPod mix of music we listened to in high school.
My cool iPod mix would be The Band, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin (d. 1970), Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, Laura Nyro, Stones, Carly Simon, Stevie Wonder (Fufillingness First Finale) Aretha Franklin, Carole King, Bette Midler, Loudon Wainwright, Billie Holiday, Jackson Brown, Neil Young, Paul Simon (There Goes’ Rhymin’ Simon), Bruce Springsteen (the Wild, the Innocent, The E Street Shuffle). I will keep adding as I remember what I used to listen to…
Blondie, Talking Heads, Television, The Roches, Patti Smith, The McGarrigles — that was my first year in college.
Now some members of the class who left before high school (it was a pre-k through high school school) want us to play music from their years at the school.
That’s a pretty tall order. Music from 1961-1976. I think we should probably just stick with 1973-1976. But that’s my opinion.
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Papa John Creach, 1997 One Way Records
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