Mother Mother The Sticks Songs
Cecelia Seiner
What's that one album in your collection that you know you'll have to defend when a buddy comes over and eyes your stack of LPs? Not a guilty pleasure (what's the point of loving music if you've gotta feel guilty about it?) but maybe the not-so-guilty pleasure album? This is a guilt-free music zone, so let's air out some of those tucked-away favorites this week.
Tennessean music reporter Matt Leimkuehler here. I'll go first with a trio of picks from my ever-growing collection (I really should slow down on record collection, but it's not easy with Grimey's right down the street, OK?).
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Ron -
this is quite an innovation and it will be an excellent way of showing some of the obstacles we had to overcome in the course of clearing the "Teds" from Italia - I had a camera once over there but I kept getting the prints back showing only my right eye ! Could'nt figure out what I was doing wrong so I threw it away !
Did you receive the bar to the Africa medal, as I thought all memebers off the 1st and 8th Armies recieved bars and members of the royal navy and RAF received a bar if they were in africa or malta in '42/43 only.
Hi Ron,
Never once did I think to keep a diary or notes. Every spare minute I had was taken up by dancing when I could get. Other times it would be singing and playing piano or lifting the elbow, the three are compatable to a high degree.
I did have a collection of bits and pieces which my mother when she changed houses decided was rubbish and threw out. This including masses of music sheets that would be worth a fortune now.
Dad managed to grab a few photo's of past family but mother was very efficient when it came to clearance.
My advice to youngsters today would be keep everything and write down day to day experiences because you come to regret not having done so.
I am glad you and others did manage to keep such things we can pry into and look forward to more of your memorabilia. I notice the Photo is stranded on the desk and expect it will appear in a week or so when they get round to it.
Regards Frank.
Hi Frank
Glad you like my bits and pieces, I warn you, there's more to come!
As you've probably sussed out, I'm one of natures magpies and the IT world came along just in time for me to be able to store stuff on computers and on CDs.
I'm particularly proud of the fact that I was able to convert about 500 coloured slides of my kids, into jpg images that I was then able to give to them as CDs for their own kids.
With respect to WW2 history, the best thing that happened to me was finding Regimental diaries on the internet that gave me, for the first time, a broader outlook on what was going on at the time.
Regards
Ron