Comments on: Echoes http://inkwatu.com/2009/07/10/echoes/ DELIGHTS, NEAR AND FAR Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:10:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Richard http://inkwatu.com/2009/07/10/echoes/comment-page-1/#comment-6816 Richard Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:55:18 +0000 http://inkwatu.com/?p=2651#comment-6816 Someone should do a study about the music kids are fascinated by/drawn to and who they turn out to be as adults. My parents had a sizeable collection of albums, and a big stereo console that looked like a piece of furniture with a flip up top to play them on. Of all those records that my mother had collected, I listened to three over and over and over: The original soundtrack to "Oklahoma!," Frank Sinatra's "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back," and Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly." Gee. Wonder if that foretold anything? Someone should do a study about the music kids are fascinated by/drawn to and who they turn out to be as adults.

My parents had a sizeable collection of albums, and a big stereo console that looked like a piece of furniture with a flip up top to play them on. Of all those records that my mother had collected, I listened to three over and over and over: The original soundtrack to “Oklahoma!,” Frank Sinatra’s “Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back,” and Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly.”

Gee. Wonder if that foretold anything?

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