I’m a big fan of that great old music of the 1950s and 60s. I was really just a kid of around 7 or 8 when rock ‘n’ roll hit with the likes of Bill Haley, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and those greats. I was still listening to my parents’ music, which I also still love.
I didn’t really get into the rock ‘n’ roll scene until 1960, when I was home from school with a double dose of measles and mumps – yes, at the same time. It wasn’t pretty. My mom had given me a transistor radio (anyone remember those?) to help pas the time (and keep me out of her hair). I accidently tuned to a popular rock ‘n’ roll station of the time, and started hearing music by the afformentioned, plus the Ventures, Roy Orbison, Chuck Berry. Ah, those were the days!
Well, I was hooked. From then on, me and my radio were inseparable. I hogged the radio in the family car. I made the family’s old Decca phonograph mine. I started spending my whole allowance on 45 RPM records and LP’s, when I could afford them. I drove people nuts.
I’ve never stopped loving that old music. Compared to a lot of what they call Rock today, it was a pure and simple, innocent, sweet and lovely musical form.
I’m in my 60′s now, so my memories go back a long way. I’d like to share the music and memories with you, and I hope you’ll visit my little world whenever you can.
Thank you,
Steve Winship
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