I interviewed Tom Donahue for my high school newspaper when he was at KMPX. He invented FM Rock radio. Huge intimidating man. Scared me to death. 40 years later, his teenage granddaughter attended my church. I had a recording of his voice. She had never heard him speak. He sounded like Orson Welles through a Marshall amp.
Meet the Beatles was the start of me and all my friends learning instruments and starting bands, we were also 10 years old, what a time, great stories Mazzy, Cheers!
At the age of ten my brother, 17, played at his bedtime 10 or 11 pm the bands and albums that awakened my interest, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Greatful Dead and Jefferson Airplane’s first albums. To this day The End evokes memories of this time.
Allan Sherman and Vaughn Meader sold enough records in 1963 to ensure that thrift stores were well stocked for the next 60 years. Thanks for the shout-out.
Good storytelling as usual, Mazzy! When I listen to the Beatles albums, I try to imagine hearing it for the 1st time when the albums first came out as I was born a year after their appearance on Ed Sullivan. It must've been eye (and ear) opening at the time.
I recall around 1964 a bunch of us Boy Scouts single file tromping through the woods at Great Falls State Park outside DC belting out, “She loves you, Yeah, Yeah, YEAH, she loves you…”
How weird. I just returned from another quick road trip to visit our son in SF, and I remember distinctly being at a stop light at 18th and Geary and commenting to my wife on the Alexandria Theatre and what a great neighborhood focus it must have been in its heyday.
A beautiful video. A beautiful thread of life through music. Meddle was an important album in my life as was Wuthering Heights. A lot of great records. Your show and tells of vinyl are always exquisite. Love when you say.... a beautiful record. God bless you Sir. In the words of Neil Young... long may you Run, dear Sir.
Same as you, Bob Dylan was a big influence. Through an acquaintance, I bought the early Bob Dylan albums, and no one else paid attention until Like a Rolling Stone came out. Paul Butterfield was probably the biggest band that I went nuts over. KMPX, and KSAN opened up a whole new world for me.
Great picks. I agree with the pepper overview. I was 11 when it came out and everyone was talking about including the big kids. Wanting to impress them and be cool I was the first to buy it with my allowance. I was so confused by it because the yeah yeah yeahs and I love you’s weren’t there. It truly wasn’t like anything else we’d ever heard. So strange at first, but it kept pulling me back to it especially with a library of about 12 records. I’d love to hear about “Mazzy - The punk years” more.
Great stuff. It's a strange thing that (in album sales at least) the best bands come from England (Stones, Queen, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Beatles) and the best individual artists from the US. But we could certainly argue the merits of a whole range of musicians, Kate Bush included. Had to laugh at your description of Wuthering Heights - had exactly the same impact on me as countless others. A unique talent.
I loved Melinda's video and I love yours equally. Bob Dylan's Another Side was my introductory folk album about 60 years ago but it turned out to be so much more and led me down many new pathways that I could not have imagined. I look back and think this was the beginning. And I still sing To Ramona every time I get ready to take my blood pressure reading.
good list. Here are mine: 10. Tommy. The Who 09. Aorta. Aorta 08. Magical Mystery Tour 07. Bold As Love. Jimi Hendrix 06. Benefit. Jethro Tull 05. The Beatles (White album) 04. Sgt Pepper. Beatles 03. Disraeli Gears. Cream 02. In The Court of the Crimson King. King Crimson 01. Meet The Beatles. The Beatles
Some top choices. I was around 10 or so when I borrowed the Dylan album from the local library. A couple of years later I borrowed Horses. Heavy music for young minds.
I vividly remember hearing Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds on the radio through the kitchen window when I was playing outside at age 6. It sounded like something from another planet at the time. Even at that age I was very struck by it.
Hey Mazzy - I bought My Son the Folk Singer for my parents for Christmas in ‘63 - figured they could use a laugh. I bought Meet the Beatles for my sister’s birthday in February, ‘64.
Angel Clare is such a beautiful record. I was a little pissed off the 2nd Avenue wasn't on it, but I bought it anyway. I am still very glad that I did. I was a freshman in college in 1971. My girl friend had written to tell me that she was with someone else. I went to a pizza place, most likely Pizza The Hut, and heard Layla on the jukebox. I went to the record store the next day to buy Layla and Other Love Songs. Oh yeah, I bought the single of 2nd Avenue since it wasn't on the album. This was all new to me, and it was great to see the records you picked, and hear your stories. I always liked Alan Sherman's take on Harry Belafonte's Mary Ann,
Mazzy, your story about Art Garfunkel reminds me of something I heard years ago. A friend told me that someone he knew, I don't know who they were, picked up a hitchhiker on a road near Winchester, here in England, and it was Art Garfunkel. I've since read that he would hitchhike all over the place, that it was like a hobby he had. This may have been in the 1980's or 90's...I'm not sure when. As for Live/Dead & Bless It's Pointed Little Head, I still have my original copies too, and they still play ok. Best wishes -m.
You caught the Who at the Filmore in 69... I don't have the words.... It would be 20 years before I saw them and Moon had been dead 11 yrs at that point. I'm so jealous. I recently watched another video (Mike Noland?). He was also in SF and he was at the infamous Cow Palace show when Moon passed out! You know more about music than I do, but, I maintain that Tommy is the first rock opera since the phrase was invented as a way to describe what Tommy was to people. Both Tommy and Quadrophenia are life-changing albums.
So impressed with the Limeliters entry! Me too... My new step dad brought Limeliters records into my life, and it totally influenced everything I think about live performances. As an entertainer myself, I gotta say I learned my chops from Lou Gottileb and these live discs. 'Slightly Fabulous'.... my favorite and most influential. The chat interplay between Lou and audience is priceless lessons for any entertainer. This was an excellent post. I shared your journey for your first 6 records. Thank you.
Hi Mazzy, My dad bought me the Tommy record when it came out. Quite a deal because he didn't understand why I spent so much time and money on records. I was 14. Thanks.
In the UK the Beatles album was called With The Beatles and it was my very first LP. It was a Xmas present from my parents. I was 10 years old and it was that LP that really sparked my life long love of music. That LP really changed my life.
I too was on a bike. It must have been winter because it was cold. I'd purchased Meet the Beatles and had it inside my coat taking it home with me. It got so badly warped it was unplayable. I guess if anything "changed my life" it would have been the Beatles.
Loved Allan Sherman when I was a kid, my Mom got me that record for Christmas when I was 8 or 9. Thanks for bringing it up. The first record I ever bought was Sam Cooke Night Beat, I repurchased it on CD as well, Little Red Rooster is still one of my favorites. Glad I found your channel.
Mazzy, I loved your story about meeting Art G. You mentioned McGovern and his run for the Presidency. I lived in Massachusetts at the time and that was my 1st opportunity to vote. I was also a big McGovern fan and as you stated, he only carried one state, Massachusetts. I had a bumper sticker on a bulletin board in my room that said. " Massachusetts, the One & Only." It was a cruel awakening to the world of politics.
Great show. It's nice to hear your personal recollections. From your comments, I surmise that we're about the same age. I grew up in the Bay Area region about 60 miles south of San Francisco. I tried to get up to The City as often as possible, riding with my friends who were a couple of years older. I managed to see many top bands before moving to Seattle at age 16, mostly in San Jose at the fairgrounds. I did manage to see Sons of Champlin at Golden Gate Park and saw the fantastic Steve Miller Band at Fillmore West. My first live rock show was Cream at the Oakland Colleseum. My mom took my friend and I to that show and picked us up when it was over, kind of like Almost Famous but I didn't get to meet any groupies or hang out with the band. One time my parents took our family to hear Simon and Garfunkel at the Berkely Community Theater. They sounded fantastic but the sound went out after about 2 minutes into the show and they had to send everyone home. They also took my sister and I to the KMPX studio on another outing. We peered through the window at Tom Donahue but had to stay outside. My parents were pretty cool in retrospect.
I was into UK comedy albums late 1980s here they were still selling well back then. I don't think I can get the meddle story out of my head now still thanks for sharing those stories.
Great recollection about Art G! I once ran into Justin Hayward while on jury duty (the Moodies had a civil case going on in a nearby courtroom) & chatted him up about favorite artists (he liked Annie Lennox at the time). I have a mono copy of Allan Sherman & Arthur Fiedler with the Boston Pops doing *Peter & the Commissar* at Tanglewood.
A good friend of mine turned me on to Patti Smith Group in mid 1970's. It was boss. I saw The Who perform Tommy also. But I saw the show at the Met in NYC in June of 1970 (a year prior to being drafted). A funny Dylan story is that when my wife and I were dating in late 1970's she lived in Brooklyn Heights and we frequented the eateries there. One place she liked was Capulets on Montague (killer fries). It was a funky spot on Montague St. and only last year did we find out that Bob Dylan hung out there too. You got some interesting music choices here.
And for the obverse, not directly related, but maybe sort of, I recall buying the White Album at a Gibson’s store in a small Texas town, trudging home with it through the snow, then hiding it from my parents who were insanely convinced the Beatles signified the End of the World being neigh. See, I’d already learned my lesson when my Mom stabbed Dylan’s Greatest Hits from the Columbia record club about a dozen times with a knife, also gave my copy of Bless it’s Pointed Little Head to a younger sibling to use as a coloring book. Insane times for some of us.
im just so glad Norm is here on YT. These videos are so damn important when it comes to having these stories "on record". The young people will benefit from these for years and years and years. so important.
Prior to my meeting her, my late wife was working in a UK record shop when a chap walked up to the counter with an album in his hand and asked: "Would you like me to autograph this?" Quite taken aback, she was at a loss for words. Then this stranger laid the album sleeve on the counter. The photo facing up was of the chap asking the question. It was Art Garfunkel and the album you showed.
I cannot say any LP changed my life in any significant way but I will say music enhanced my life. I think that is what music is all about. It soothes the soul. It helped me to get through trying times, taking the edge off when I was being challenged in some way. I could always turn to music.
When I watched Sea Of Tranquility and Melinda run with this idea.. I had to do it ! I bumped my regular weekly video to do this one ! It had to be personal..Nice response, Mazzy, enjoying the rest of yours.
Allan Sherman! Funny story, back in the 90's a buddy handed me a casette (unmarked) and I played it in my car on the way home. This first tune started of with a Tijuana Brass, "Taste of Honey" riff and I almost ejected the casette. Luckily I didn't because it was Sherman's, "A waste of Money" also on the tape was "Harvey and Sheila". Up to that point I only knew his work through "Camp Granada".
So true, about Sgt. Pepper..It seemed like months passed before you heard anything else, blaring from everybody's parents stereo consoles, and record players everywhere!..I remember when the Beatles came to the states, with the whole Ed Sullivan thing..Believe it, or not, my parents bought the album, "Something New"..Kinda like a coming to America promotional thing..Even my parents liked them!..That's when I knew they were different!..First thing I wanted to do was grow my hair longer, and pleaded with my mother to buy me Beatle boots, and I was 7!!..People today can't understand just how the earth shifted with their arrival here...Like so many it changed me forever..That, and what followed!..Amazing time for music, baby!
An eloquent recollection, Norman. I'm guessing, by your choices and influences, that you were born in the mid-fifties. I grew up in the Boston area and share your appreciation for every record you spoke of. I think all of us lost our virginity listening to one or another band from that era, and I enjoyed your personal story in that regard. Hey, this showed up in my daily YT feed, liked your content a lot so I subscribed. Cheers.
Had some of my uncles forty five records and one of them was Hello Maddah. Hello Faddah. Here I am at camp Grenada..Great songs like Chain Gang. Sam Cooke. Endless Sleep. Jody Reynolds. One hundred pounds of clay. Ooh my soul. Tucamcari..Bop a- Lena..Keep a knocking. A lot of great memories. Wish I still had them..
Love, consummated Echos in the canyons of our hearts. Youth, All is new. Hearts spinning at 33 1/3 rpm, Feelings unknown until now. We find ourselves, MEDDLING with each other This moment will Echo between us forever ! "And I am you and what I see is me And do I take you by the hand And lead you through the land And help me understand the best I can?" I.B. (With inspiration from Mazzy and the Floyd.)
Thanx Mazzy. Records that changed my (!!) life.....as far as I remember 'rwas the first LP my brother gave me ("maybe that's something for you" he said), being 14-15 at the time in 1970, and this was a German Rock album by a band called "Rufus Zuphall" (from Aachen which is on the Dutch border), near where we lived. Their debut "Weiß der Teufel" (The Devil might know (?)), was something on the Jethro Tull line, with flute like so many other in the prog era. Second was "Wild Honey" by The Beach Boys and I stil prefer this to Pet Sounds. Third was: Grateful Dead '72 Europe....which is a real masterpiece, may not for the U.S. as they were touring there permanently, but for us here in EU...absolutely fantastic. The SWFIII (South-west radio) played the 3Lps on two sunday in their Pop-shop-special. And they played complete LPs in their Staurday LP-show like "YES Time and A Word". Also on Pop-sho-special the played "C.Santana & Buddy Mile Live!" which is also a breathtaking record. I didn't have the money to buy record until I started jobs during holiday seasons. Still today I remeber the first 6 i got: Allman Bros. Fillmore East, R.Gallagher Deuce, Jethro Tull Stand Up, Steamhammer MKII, Ten Years After Cricklewood Green, Yes Album. My collection has widened since, but these are the records that influennced my musical tast fundamentally. Good luck. Jo
Great video. I was sitting in my friend's apartment after downing a freshly picked batch of psilocybin mushrooms. We put Echoes on. The music was visually spinning around the room and I was extremely concerned about those two creatures finding one another. Your experience was better though.
Loved your video as well as Melinda's. My first recollection of music on vinyl was the soundtrack to South Pacific, Tea for Two Cha Chas and RCA Victor 50 Golden Years. My folks loved Billy Vaughn too. Greatest Hits. My first personal album was also Meet The Beatles. (I still have my dad's vinyl and his last turntable. Yamaha P751. Thanks for bringing back the memories with your early lps.😊 He also loved Sarah Vaughn and got me into jazz.....
"Dark Side..." was the first album that I became aware of as a complete entity and not just a collection of individual songs. I discovered this album (my older brother's) around the time it was released. It was also the first no-skip album for me....an album I would ALWAYS listen to from start to finish. "Alive" from Kiss. Another album I discovered around the time of its release, my friend Shawn brought a copy in for "music day" in the 6th grade where we could gather in groups and play records on those small, all-in-one record players that every school kid from the '60s and '70s is familiar with. It was my first real introduction of hard rock, the genre that would ultimately be my favorite. "Boston". Their debut. This album crushed it in '76-'77. An amazing and (then) unique sound. This album has NEVER left my rotation in spite of my shifts in musical preferences in my teens, my 20s, my 30s....... "Led Zeppelin". Another debut album. I was familiar with LZ from the radio but I had never listened to one of their albums. I borrowed this album from a friend while a freshman in high school and it blew me away. I think I listened to it 3 times that evening and as soon as I had $8, I went out and bought my own copy. Because of this album I discovered my first (and still most important) guitar hero, and then there was that drummer.......
Yes, Pink Floyd Meddle. After seeing Live at Pompeii with Altec Lancing voice of the theaters cranked almost full stop set up in the movie theater. Someone had to arrange that God bless them.
I don't remember which Allan Sherman LP contained Beautiful Teamsters (to the tune of Beautiful Dreamer), but I've never forgot the line "Beautiful Teamsters, please let me join. I can't drive a truck but I'm willing to loin."
Tommy is a very nostalgic album for me yet I've never owned it on vinyl. it's just the memory of seeing it in record shops and in friends' parents' collections when I was growing up.
here's one for you Massy... Seattle Public Library by Rem Koolhas (dutch architect)... the glass atrium ceiling? I don't know for sure... But to my eye... inspired by the Who Tommy album cover. Check it out!
admire you and respect you Mazzy...as you often say... different things effect us in different ways. I know that you or anyone else really cares what I think, but IMO, Quadrophenia is a deeper and "lusher" album than Tommy. I feel like there are things on Tommy that are just trite. But, I still like it. When I was a teenager, early teens, the Tommy movie came out. Maybe, that is what ruined the album for me. There are things on Tommy that still attract me and get to me, but I think the themes of Quadrophenia reach into me more.
Only people growing up through the time would understand the Sgt. Pepper AND SFF/PL significance. It changed EVERYTHING. Sometimes likened to in The Wizard of Oz when it goes from black and white to color. NICE share on Art G. And having The Kick Inside here - is perfect. My first hearing Wuthering Heights was on the Pat Benatar album. Thanks for sharing ^^^^
Wow! I have good memories of The Limelighters LP. I also had a teacher that played it often!! Good Memories!! ...and still pretty easy to find in thrift shops, they must of sold millions.
Hey Mazzy, Thanks for sharing. We're cohorts so I'm not surprised that we'd have some overlap; the Beatles (of course), I waited for every album and over a libation could go through song by song. But what surprised me a bit was that you closed with Kate Bush. I too was introduced to her with The Kick Inside Album. Way ahead of her time and many female artist to follow owe her a nod. So why am I surprised? In all of these years I've had exactly one friend who "got" Kate. My sympathies to the rest.
Hi, I really enjoyed this video Mazzy. I am sure you maybe have this album by Allen Sherman. But a must have album is Allen Sherman with the Boston Pops/Arthur Fiedler Recorded Live. It is fantastic and so very funny. Take care
angel Clare by Art Garfunkel! My word I’ve not played that in years, loved it. My then girl friend always burst into tears over Barbara Allen… that record meant a lot to me then. Great stories, Love your tales. …. Oh, my ‘Meddle’ record was Isle Of View Jimmie Spheeris… ha ha !
We sang Yellow Submarine in kindergarten in 1966. But it was Hendrix that blew my mind in the 70's. Then in 2015 my mind was blown by Laura Nyro. These two showed what innovative, emotion, intensity, sensitivity, integrity and artistic expression in rock/ pop could be. Just below them, Tim Buckley. Wuthering Heights is influenced by Nyro's Captain for Dark Mornings (1969).
A guy in the vinyl community in 2017 sent me some hard rock and metal records and he used the Art Garfunkel record as a stiffener! The cover was defaced with drawings on Art's face! I was repulsed that someone can deface ANY record that way! I cleaned it, put it on, and I absolutely loved it!😊
You’re at your Zenith when talking all things BEATLES. I heard a record in grade school, Anne T Case Elementary, “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds, and sung by Pete Seeger and for me this was a really revolutionary critique of Suburbia!
I would have kept Art's roach too. I have bowl from which Bob Dylan ate his cereal. Cap'n Crunch as I recall> LOL. I keep my guitar picks and slides in it.
I have an idea for a video you might like to do. In my opinion, there isn't enough love shown for the Discogs community as users/individuals. Three of my records that changed my life were found by paying close attention to three users; Eirikstim (that was Ken Boothe - Let's Get It On), rastislav.sutak (for Tuck & Patti - Love Warriors) and savakntr (Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat) who sadly looks like is no longer active. The Ken Boothe and Jennifer Warnes are in my collection. Highlighting some of the 150 users I consider as my "idea suppliers" could be a good idea, because not a lot of personal information is shown on each profile. Some other records that changed my life include: Savage Garden self-titled also in my collection as vinyl, Scientist - In Dub, and Grant Green - Live at the Lighthouse.
Art G cool! I ran into Stevie Wonder at one of those small terminals in Chicago. Maybe half a dozen people there. Someone actually asked him for an autograph. And I had lunch with a member of Pat Travers Band near Frankfurt.
What a wonderful trip Reminds me of Dylans or Lenny Kayes books Anyways Horses , Marquee Moon and Velvets changed my life I grew up small town Ireland Now live in NYC See Patti all the time Love her still
I interviewed Tom Donahue for my high school newspaper when he was at KMPX. He invented FM Rock radio. Huge intimidating man. Scared me to death. 40 years later, his teenage granddaughter attended my church. I had a recording of his voice. She had never heard him speak. He sounded like Orson Welles through a Marshall amp.
Yes his voice. I met him once in person but listened to him all the time.
He looked like a huge bearded Hell's Angel in a black business suit.
Haha like the comparison you made it's like Orson wells through a marshall amp!😂😂😂❤🇬🇧
Great stories Mazzy. That Art Garfunkel story is so great. ♥️🤗 Thank for the kind words. Take care.
You always inspire me Melinda. We have taken different paths, but both inspirational ✌🏼
"Strawberry Fields" ... even as an 8 year old kid, I was aware that the song was taking me to a different plane.
Ditto The Limeliters' "Through Children's Eyes" and The Beatles "Strawberry Fields." Same wavelength Mazzy. Thanks for posting.
Meet the Beatles was the start of me and all my friends learning instruments and starting bands, we were also 10 years old, what a time, great stories Mazzy, Cheers!
At the age of ten my brother, 17, played at his bedtime 10 or 11 pm the bands and albums that awakened my interest, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Greatful Dead and Jefferson Airplane’s first albums. To this day The End evokes memories of this time.
Allan Sherman and Vaughn Meader sold enough records in 1963 to ensure that thrift stores were well stocked for the next 60 years. Thanks for the shout-out.
Unfortunately, Vaughn's career ended on November 22, 1963. Sherman lasted for several more years, although in decline.
Good storytelling as usual, Mazzy! When I listen to the Beatles albums, I try to imagine hearing it for the 1st time when the albums first came out as I was born a year after their appearance on Ed Sullivan. It must've been eye (and ear) opening at the time.
I recall around 1964 a bunch of us Boy Scouts single file tromping through the woods at Great Falls State Park outside DC belting out, “She loves you, Yeah, Yeah, YEAH, she loves you…”
How weird. I just returned from another quick road trip to visit our son in SF, and I remember distinctly being at a stop light at 18th and Geary and commenting to my wife on the Alexandria Theatre and what a great neighborhood focus it must have been in its heyday.
A beautiful video. A beautiful thread of life through music. Meddle was an important album in my life as was Wuthering Heights. A lot of great records. Your show and tells of vinyl are always exquisite. Love when you say.... a beautiful record. God bless you Sir. In the words of Neil Young... long may you Run, dear Sir.
You are always so kind. Thank you.
Same as you, Bob Dylan was a big influence. Through an acquaintance, I bought the early Bob Dylan albums, and no one else paid attention until Like a Rolling Stone came out. Paul Butterfield was probably the biggest band that I went nuts over. KMPX, and KSAN opened up a whole new world for me.
Great picks. I agree with the pepper overview. I was 11 when it came out and everyone was talking about including the big kids. Wanting to impress them and be cool I was the first to buy it with my allowance. I was so confused by it because the yeah yeah yeahs and I love you’s weren’t there. It truly wasn’t like anything else we’d ever heard. So strange at first, but it kept pulling me back to it especially with a library of about 12 records. I’d love to hear about “Mazzy - The punk years” more.
Great stuff. It's a strange thing that (in album sales at least) the best bands come from England (Stones, Queen, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Beatles) and the best individual artists from the US. But we could certainly argue the merits of a whole range of musicians, Kate Bush included. Had to laugh at your description of Wuthering Heights - had exactly the same impact on me as countless others. A unique talent.
Great story about your meeting with Art Garfunkel...and I'm also a big fan of his first solo album "Angel Claire."
Oh man, Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh, that song hasn't entered my head for donkey's years. I must have been about 7 when it came out.
I loved Melinda's video and I love yours equally. Bob Dylan's Another Side was my introductory folk album about 60 years ago but it turned out to be so much more and led me down many new pathways that I could not have imagined. I look back and think this was the beginning. And I still sing To Ramona every time I get ready to take my blood pressure reading.
digress away my friend..luv the stories..appreciate the memories..
hope you enjoyed the novel.. peace always.. rocky
Thank you ✌🏼
good list. Here are mine:
10. Tommy. The Who
09. Aorta. Aorta
08. Magical Mystery Tour
07. Bold As Love. Jimi Hendrix
06. Benefit. Jethro Tull
05. The Beatles (White album)
04. Sgt Pepper. Beatles
03. Disraeli Gears. Cream
02. In The Court of the Crimson King. King Crimson
01. Meet The Beatles. The Beatles
Some top choices. I was around 10 or so when I borrowed the Dylan album from the local library. A couple of years later I borrowed Horses. Heavy music for young minds.
What an incredible Art Garfunkle story - beautiful.
Great stories, it moved me. Looking forward to the next stages of your life ..... great content man!
Beautiful stories, lovely life Mazzy, thank you for sharing with us!
Glad you enjoyed it✌🏼
I vividly remember hearing Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds on the radio through the kitchen window when I was playing outside at age 6. It sounded like something from another planet at the time. Even at that age I was very struck by it.
Hey Mazzy - I bought My Son the Folk Singer for my parents for Christmas in ‘63 - figured they could use a laugh. I bought Meet the Beatles for my sister’s birthday in February, ‘64.
Absolutely great insights and so personal. thanks for sharing.
Angel Clare is such a beautiful record. I was a little pissed off the 2nd Avenue wasn't on it, but I bought it anyway. I am still very glad that I did. I was a freshman in college in 1971. My girl friend had written to tell me that she was with someone else. I went to a pizza place, most likely Pizza The Hut, and heard Layla on the jukebox. I went to the record store the next day to buy Layla and Other Love Songs. Oh yeah, I bought the single of 2nd Avenue since it wasn't on the album. This was all new to me, and it was great to see the records you picked, and hear your stories. I always liked Alan Sherman's take on Harry Belafonte's Mary Ann,
Mazzy, your story about Art Garfunkel reminds me of something I heard years ago. A friend told me that someone he knew, I don't know who they were, picked up a hitchhiker on a road near Winchester, here in England, and it was Art Garfunkel. I've since read that he would hitchhike all over the place, that it was like a hobby he had. This may have been in the 1980's or 90's...I'm not sure when. As for Live/Dead & Bless It's Pointed Little Head, I still have my original copies too, and they still play ok. Best wishes -m.
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I don't have the words.... It would be 20 years before I saw them and Moon had been dead 11 yrs at that point. I'm so jealous. I recently watched another video (Mike Noland?). He was also in SF and he was at the infamous Cow Palace show when Moon passed out!
You know more about music than I do, but, I maintain that Tommy is the first rock opera since the phrase was invented as a way to describe what Tommy was to people. Both Tommy and Quadrophenia are life-changing albums.
It’s doesn’t really matter if it was first or not ( it wasn’t really first ). But it was bigger and more important than even PF Sorrow.
So impressed with the Limeliters entry! Me too... My new step dad brought Limeliters records into my life, and it totally influenced everything I think about live performances. As an entertainer myself, I gotta say I learned my chops from Lou Gottileb and these live discs. 'Slightly Fabulous'.... my favorite and most influential. The chat interplay between Lou and audience is priceless lessons for any entertainer.
This was an excellent post. I shared your journey for your first 6 records. Thank you.
Yeah I had to dig deeper than just the normal key popular rock records ✌🏼
Hi Mazzy, My dad bought me the Tommy record when it came out. Quite a deal because he didn't understand why I spent so much time and money on records. I was 14. Thanks.
Great stories, Mazzy! I especially enjoyed hearing the Art Garfunkel one. Hadn’t heard it before.
Love hearing those stories. Well done.
That front cover of Time magazine of The Beatles was made by Gerald Scarfe, later to do illustrations for Pink Floyd The Wall.
In the UK the Beatles album was called With The Beatles and it was my very first LP. It was a Xmas present from my parents. I was 10 years old and it was that LP that really sparked my life long love of music. That LP really changed my life.
I too was on a bike. It must have been winter because it was cold. I'd purchased Meet the Beatles and had it inside my coat taking it home with me. It got so badly warped it was unplayable. I guess if anything "changed my life" it would have been the Beatles.
Loved Allan Sherman when I was a kid, my Mom got me that record for Christmas when I was 8 or 9. Thanks for bringing it up. The first record I ever bought was Sam Cooke Night Beat, I repurchased it on CD as well, Little Red Rooster is still one of my favorites. Glad I found your channel.
OMG! My son the folk Singer.... I used to listen to that non stop when I was Really young
Wow I had never heard that story about Art Garfunkel. Pretty amazing experience. 🥰 Always enjoy hearing (and re-hearing) your stories 😊
Mazzy, I loved your story about meeting Art G. You mentioned McGovern and his run for the Presidency. I lived in Massachusetts at the time and that was my 1st opportunity to vote. I was also a big McGovern fan and as you stated, he only carried one state, Massachusetts. I had a bumper sticker on a bulletin board in my room that said. " Massachusetts, the One & Only."
It was a cruel awakening to the world of politics.
Great show. It's nice to hear your personal recollections. From your comments, I surmise that we're about the same age. I grew up in the Bay Area region about 60 miles south of San Francisco. I tried to get up to The City as often as possible, riding with my friends who were a couple of years older. I managed to see many top bands before moving to Seattle at age 16, mostly in San Jose at the fairgrounds. I did manage to see Sons of Champlin at Golden Gate Park and saw the fantastic Steve Miller Band at Fillmore West. My first live rock show was Cream at the Oakland Colleseum. My mom took my friend and I to that show and picked us up when it was over, kind of like Almost Famous but I didn't get to meet any groupies or hang out with the band. One time my parents took our family to hear Simon and Garfunkel at the Berkely Community Theater. They sounded fantastic but the sound went out after about 2 minutes into the show and they had to send everyone home. They also took my sister and I to the KMPX studio on another outing. We peered through the window at Tom Donahue but had to stay outside. My parents were pretty cool in retrospect.
Saludos y BENDICIONES desde Puerto Rico
Thank you so much for introducing me to this Art Garfunkel album and personal story. Love you!
I was into UK comedy albums late 1980s here they were still selling well back then. I don't think I can get the meddle story out of my head now still thanks for sharing those stories.
Thank you for the Art G story! I read his book last year and got a kick out of him talking about going through my hometown, and how beautiful it is.
Great recollection about Art G! I once ran into Justin Hayward while on jury duty (the Moodies had a civil case going on in a nearby courtroom) & chatted him up about favorite artists (he liked Annie Lennox at the time). I have a mono copy of Allan Sherman & Arthur Fiedler with the Boston Pops doing *Peter & the Commissar* at Tanglewood.
We weren't a Jewish family, but definitely had that first Alan Sherman record in the house.
I really enjoyed this video. I think its so interesting to learn about people's connection to music, and the albums that mean so much to them.
A good friend of mine turned me on to Patti Smith Group in mid 1970's. It was boss. I saw The Who perform Tommy also. But I saw the show at the Met in NYC in June of 1970 (a year prior to being drafted). A funny Dylan story is that when my wife and I were dating in late 1970's she lived in Brooklyn Heights and we frequented the eateries there. One place she liked was Capulets on Montague (killer fries). It was a funky spot on Montague St. and only last year did we find out that Bob Dylan hung out there too. You got some interesting music choices here.
This is great topic and video. I’m going to give it a go I think. Well done!
Please do ✌🏼
And for the obverse, not directly related, but maybe sort of, I recall buying the White Album at a Gibson’s store in a small Texas town, trudging home with it through the snow, then hiding it from my parents who were insanely convinced the Beatles signified the End of the World being neigh. See, I’d already learned my lesson when my Mom stabbed Dylan’s Greatest Hits from the Columbia record club about a dozen times with a knife, also gave my copy of Bless it’s Pointed Little Head to a younger sibling to use as a coloring book. Insane times for some of us.
Oh no! Not the Airplane album!
One and the same.
Happy to see Tommy on your list. I bought this album when it was released ( advise from friends older brother ). I was 14 yo.
im just so glad Norm is here on YT.
These videos are so damn important when it comes to having these stories "on record".
The young people will benefit from these for years and years and years. so important.
Who is Norm 🤷🏻♂️
Prior to my meeting her, my late wife was working in a UK record shop when a chap walked up to the counter with an album in his hand and asked: "Would you like me to autograph this?" Quite taken aback, she was at a loss for words. Then this stranger laid the album sleeve on the counter. The photo facing up was of the chap asking the question. It was Art Garfunkel and the album you showed.
Cool Did he hand her his roach 🤷🏻♂️🤠
I cannot say any LP changed my life in any significant way but I will say music enhanced my life. I think that is what music is all about. It soothes the soul. It helped me to get through trying times, taking the edge off when I was being challenged in some way. I could always turn to music.
Well said ✌🏼
When I watched Sea Of Tranquility and Melinda run with this idea.. I had to do it ! I bumped my regular weekly video to do this one ! It had to be personal..Nice response, Mazzy, enjoying the rest of yours.
we first heart Strawberry on wmca while driving home from school--we had to pull over and just listen
Allan Sherman! Funny story, back in the 90's a buddy handed me a casette (unmarked) and I played it in my car on the way home. This first tune started of with a Tijuana Brass, "Taste of Honey" riff and I almost ejected the casette. Luckily I didn't because it was Sherman's, "A waste of Money" also on the tape was "Harvey and Sheila". Up to that point I only knew his work through "Camp Granada".
Great Video Mazzy as always.Love the Greatful Dead albums!!
So true, about Sgt. Pepper..It seemed like months passed before you heard anything else, blaring from everybody's parents stereo consoles, and record players everywhere!..I remember when the Beatles came to the states, with the whole Ed Sullivan thing..Believe it, or not, my parents bought the album, "Something New"..Kinda like a coming to America promotional thing..Even my parents liked them!..That's when I knew they were different!..First thing I wanted to do was grow my hair longer, and pleaded with my mother to buy me Beatle boots, and I was 7!!..People today can't understand just how the earth shifted with their arrival here...Like so many it changed me forever..That, and what followed!..Amazing time for music, baby!
An eloquent recollection, Norman. I'm guessing, by your choices and influences, that you were born in the mid-fifties. I grew up in the Boston area and share your appreciation for every record you spoke of. I think all of us lost our virginity listening to one or another band from that era, and I enjoyed your personal story in that regard. Hey, this showed up in my daily YT feed, liked your content a lot so I subscribed. Cheers.
Had some of my uncles forty five records and one of them was Hello Maddah. Hello Faddah. Here I am at camp Grenada..Great songs like Chain Gang. Sam Cooke. Endless Sleep. Jody Reynolds. One hundred pounds of clay. Ooh my soul. Tucamcari..Bop a- Lena..Keep a knocking. A lot of great memories. Wish I still had them..
Mazzy..... you're a legend. Thank you for being you. Love your Channel 😊
Great Art Garfunkel story and enjoyed your bio! Thanks, Mazzy!
Love, consummated Echos
in the canyons of our hearts.
Youth, All is new.
Hearts spinning at 33 1/3 rpm,
Feelings unknown until now.
We find ourselves, MEDDLING with each other
This moment will Echo between us forever !
"And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can?"
I.B. (With inspiration from Mazzy and the Floyd.)
Thanx Mazzy. Records that changed my (!!) life.....as far as I remember 'rwas the first LP my brother gave me ("maybe that's something for you" he said), being 14-15 at the time in 1970, and this was a German Rock album by a band called "Rufus Zuphall" (from Aachen which is on the Dutch border), near where we lived. Their debut "Weiß der Teufel" (The Devil might know (?)), was something on the Jethro Tull line, with flute like so many other in the prog era. Second was "Wild Honey" by The Beach Boys and I stil prefer this to Pet Sounds. Third was: Grateful Dead '72 Europe....which is a real masterpiece, may not for the U.S. as they were touring there permanently, but for us here in EU...absolutely fantastic. The SWFIII (South-west radio) played the 3Lps on two sunday in their Pop-shop-special. And they played complete LPs in their Staurday LP-show like "YES Time and A Word". Also on Pop-sho-special the played "C.Santana & Buddy Mile Live!" which is also a breathtaking record. I didn't have the money to buy record until I started jobs during holiday seasons. Still today I remeber the first 6 i got: Allman Bros. Fillmore East, R.Gallagher Deuce, Jethro Tull Stand Up, Steamhammer MKII, Ten Years After Cricklewood Green, Yes Album. My collection has widened since, but these are the records that influennced my musical tast fundamentally. Good luck. Jo
Great video, loved the Art Garfunkel story
deep in the heart of the brain is a lever, deep in the heart of the brain there is a switch....
Great video. I was sitting in my friend's apartment after downing a freshly picked batch of psilocybin mushrooms. We put Echoes on. The music was visually spinning around the room and I was extremely concerned about those two creatures finding one another. Your experience was better though.
Loved your video as well as Melinda's. My first recollection of music on vinyl was the soundtrack to South Pacific, Tea for Two Cha Chas and RCA Victor 50 Golden Years. My folks loved Billy Vaughn too. Greatest Hits. My first personal album was also Meet The Beatles. (I still have my dad's vinyl and his last turntable. Yamaha P751. Thanks for bringing back the memories with your early lps.😊 He also loved Sarah Vaughn and got me into jazz.....
Thanks for sharing your memories 🙏.. very interesting 🪬...
Thanks Mazzy for all your videos...always
Thank you. Music and greats add joy to my life. It’s fun to share it all ✌🏼
"Dark Side..." was the first album that I became aware of as a complete entity and not just a collection of individual songs. I discovered this album (my older brother's) around the time it was released. It was also the first no-skip album for me....an album I would ALWAYS listen to from start to finish.
"Alive" from Kiss. Another album I discovered around the time of its release, my friend Shawn brought a copy in for "music day" in the 6th grade where we could gather in groups and play records on those small, all-in-one record players that every school kid from the '60s and '70s is familiar with. It was my first real introduction of hard rock, the genre that would ultimately be my favorite.
"Boston". Their debut. This album crushed it in '76-'77. An amazing and (then) unique sound. This album has NEVER left my rotation in spite of my shifts in musical preferences in my teens, my 20s, my 30s.......
"Led Zeppelin". Another debut album. I was familiar with LZ from the radio but I had never listened to one of their albums. I borrowed this album from a friend while a freshman in high school and it blew me away. I think I listened to it 3 times that evening and as soon as I had $8, I went out and bought my own copy. Because of this album I discovered my first (and still most important) guitar hero, and then there was that drummer.......
Yes, Pink Floyd Meddle. After seeing Live at Pompeii with Altec Lancing voice of the theaters cranked almost full stop set up in the movie theater. Someone had to arrange that God bless them.
I don't remember which Allan Sherman LP contained Beautiful Teamsters (to the tune of Beautiful Dreamer), but I've never forgot the line "Beautiful Teamsters, please let me join. I can't drive a truck but I'm willing to loin."
Man after my own heart. Just like me he has a jazz journey as well.
Hi Mazzy, great selection. I recently finally got hold of a copy of Another Side, great record.
Tommy is a very nostalgic album for me yet I've never owned it on vinyl. it's just the memory of seeing it in record shops and in friends' parents' collections when I was growing up.
It is so good. And a great sound record. Cheers James ✌🏼
here's one for you Massy... Seattle Public Library by Rem Koolhas (dutch architect)... the glass atrium ceiling? I don't know for sure... But to my eye... inspired by the Who Tommy album cover. Check it out!
admire you and respect you Mazzy...as you often say... different things effect us in different ways. I know that you or anyone else really cares what I think, but IMO, Quadrophenia is a deeper and "lusher" album than Tommy. I feel like there are things on Tommy that are just trite. But, I still like it. When I was a teenager, early teens, the Tommy movie came out. Maybe, that is what ruined the album for me. There are things on Tommy that still attract me and get to me, but I think the themes of Quadrophenia reach into me more.
No records have changed my life, but many have made a huge impression and have stayed with me
I wish I could have shared a meal with Art Garfunkel at a Chinese restaurant. Wow...what a story.
Wuthering Heights was the first single i ever bought. Still love Kate Bush till this day
Only people growing up through the time would understand the Sgt. Pepper AND SFF/PL significance. It changed EVERYTHING. Sometimes likened to in The Wizard of Oz when it goes from black and white to color. NICE share on Art G. And having The Kick Inside here - is perfect. My first hearing Wuthering Heights was on the Pat Benatar album. Thanks for sharing ^^^^
Yes absolutely ✌🏼
Wow! I have good memories of The Limelighters LP. I also had a teacher that played it often!! Good Memories!! ...and still pretty easy to find in thrift shops, they must of sold millions.
thank you for sharing
Hey Mazzy, Thanks for sharing. We're cohorts so I'm not surprised that we'd have some overlap; the Beatles (of course), I waited for every album and over a libation could go through song by song.
But what surprised me a bit was that you closed with Kate Bush. I too was introduced to her with The Kick Inside Album. Way ahead of her time and many female artist to follow owe her a nod.
So why am I surprised? In all of these years I've had exactly one friend who "got" Kate. My sympathies to the rest.
Got into Kate at the right time ( her beginning) And followed her all the way.
"and they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining...."
Hi, I really enjoyed this video Mazzy. I am sure you maybe have this album by Allen Sherman. But a must have album is Allen Sherman with the Boston Pops/Arthur Fiedler Recorded Live. It is fantastic and so very funny. Take care
Well , the Garfunkel story TAKES THE CAKE ! That’s just the coolest …….
Can’t hear Allen Sherman without being reminded of Vaughn Meader.
angel Clare by Art Garfunkel! My word I’ve not played that in years, loved it. My then girl friend always burst into tears over Barbara Allen… that record meant a lot to me then. Great stories, Love your tales. …. Oh, my ‘Meddle’ record was Isle Of View Jimmie Spheeris… ha ha !
We sang Yellow Submarine in kindergarten in 1966. But it was Hendrix that blew my mind in the 70's. Then in 2015 my mind was blown by Laura Nyro. These two showed what innovative, emotion, intensity, sensitivity, integrity and artistic expression in rock/ pop could be. Just below them, Tim Buckley. Wuthering Heights is influenced by Nyro's Captain for Dark Mornings (1969).
A guy in the vinyl community in 2017 sent me some hard rock and metal records and he used the Art Garfunkel record as a stiffener! The cover was defaced with drawings on Art's face! I was repulsed that someone can deface ANY record that way! I cleaned it, put it on, and I absolutely loved it!😊
Great stories! Thank Mazzy!
Mr. Pete------->
aging hippie
You’re at your Zenith when talking all things BEATLES. I heard a record in grade school, Anne T Case Elementary, “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds, and sung by Pete Seeger and for me this was a really revolutionary critique of Suburbia!
Yeah, that song written about all the houses in a row in Daly City. Right next to San Francisco.
I would have kept Art's roach too. I have bowl from which Bob Dylan ate his cereal. Cap'n Crunch as I recall> LOL. I keep my guitar picks and slides in it.
I have an idea for a video you might like to do. In my opinion, there isn't enough love shown for the Discogs community as users/individuals. Three of my records that changed my life were found by paying close attention to three users; Eirikstim (that was Ken Boothe - Let's Get It On), rastislav.sutak (for Tuck & Patti - Love Warriors) and savakntr (Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat) who sadly looks like is no longer active. The Ken Boothe and Jennifer Warnes are in my collection. Highlighting some of the 150 users I consider as my "idea suppliers" could be a good idea, because not a lot of personal information is shown on each profile. Some other records that changed my life include: Savage Garden self-titled also in my collection as vinyl, Scientist - In Dub, and Grant Green - Live at the Lighthouse.
Visiting Seattle this week. Picked up about 7 LPs that I hope will change my life at Easy Street!
Art G cool! I ran into Stevie Wonder at one of those small terminals in Chicago. Maybe half a dozen people there. Someone actually asked him for an autograph. And I had lunch with a member of Pat Travers Band near Frankfurt.
What a wonderful trip
Reminds me of Dylans or Lenny Kayes books
Anyways
Horses , Marquee Moon and Velvets changed my life
I grew up small town Ireland
Now live in NYC
See Patti all the time
Love her still
Have you seen Perfect Days yet? It has a major Patti Smith Horses appearance, along with Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, etc