That was probably my start too, though my close and play sort of record player looked a little different. I remember a record I had that had songs like "Tie me Kangaroo down, Sport" and stuff like that on it. Cartoon music was probably the other start. We would play "guitar" along with the records either on some cheap bongo drums my folks brought back from Hawaii, or on a cheap ukelele. Piano lessons, and interest in the "Peanuts" theme music (Vince Guaraldi Trio) was likely next.
There is a thread around here somewhere where I give a very lengthy and wordy history of my influences. Ahh, here it is. http://www.thefret.net/showthread.ph...ht=ray+conniff
Originally Posted by
ted s
I think I was 6, I had one of these..
Early one Sunday morning while my parents were still sleeping I went through a stack of 45's that were inside one of those big old console am/fm reel-reel stereo's and found The Animals House of the Rising Sun & The Beatles Revoluton. Years later I scooped Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert from the same stash. I still have it somewhere.
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