12/28/2023
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People have asked me from time to time, how I got interested in all these old records.

My family wasn't particularly "musical" - (the "Von Trapp Family" ("Sound of Music" movie) we WEREN'T :-)

My Mother liked Strauss waltzes a little, but not a lot else, my Dad liked music about as much as going to the dentist.

I wouldn't say he hated music, just that he had no interest in it - at all - zero.

We did have a phonograph and us kids did buy some rock-n-roll and movie soundtrack albums - stuff like that, but not a lot.

In addition, we had two small groups of old 78 rpm records.

One group was from my Swezey Grandparents and was from the World War One era and the other was records my Mother bought when she was a young woman in the 1930s.

So anyway, I grew up listening to those - todays three songs are from that group.

When you're a kid you don't know that these songs were decades out of style.

It's just "here's some music, kid", and so I grew up listening to them.

As a result, I actually like that old music.

When I started collecting, in the 1970s, there was no YouTube or Internet Archive - if you wanted older music you had to go out and find it in Goodwill or antique stores (second-hand shops really :-) which is what I did.

It got to be a sort of treasure hunt - I never knew what I was going to find.

Anyway, that's how I got into it.