My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Our assignment tonight from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to: 1)  According to Wikipedia, today is World Music Day!  How should we celebrate? 2)  How has music affected your life?  What is your favorite music type?  What are your favorite songs? [Thank you to Janice Sellers for suggesting this challenge to me] Here's mine: I’m getting a late start on this because I spent the day visiting the Fresno Public Library’s Heritage Center with the Northern California Chapter of APG (Association of Professional Genealogists). I'm going to focus on listening to music and not on any music I perform. Growing up, there was always music in our house, mostly from the radio. When my mother was young, she played the current hits. Later in life, she played country music on the radio. I was surprised when some of my pop songs were also being played on the country station...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's  Saturday Night  again - time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! O ur assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing is: 1) What is your all-time favorite song? Yep, number 1. It's hard to choose sometimes. If you made your favorite all-time Top 40 music selections, what would be #1? 2. Tell us about it. Why is it a favorite? Do you have special memories attached to this song?  3. Put it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link in a comment to this post. Selecting a number one song would be very difficult. I can remember the first LP album I received for a gift: Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass “Whipped Cream & Other Delights.” The cover seemed scandalous to me with the naked women covered in whipped cream. There were some really good songs and I probably played it a lot.  Here is “A Taste of Honey.” My first 45 rpm I bought with my own money was ...