April 14, 2011
Tags: All Around My Hat, Matona Lovely Maiden, Maxine Manning, Obernkirchen Children's Choir, Sandi Meggert, Steeleye Span
I’ve got this lovely piece of music in front of me and I am musing about loss of innocence in a post Thomas/Hill world. It’s called “Matona, Lovely Maiden,” and I first heard it on a long playing LP of the Obernkirchen Children’s Choir. I was probably eight years old. On the album cover was Read the Rest…
March 13, 2011
Tags: Baseball Hall of Fame, Brain Damage, Pink Floyd, Sandi Meggert, YMCA
Robert didn’t want to take piano lessons. His brother had been with me for three years and it took Robert a month to decide the mystique was off. Two years and eleven months to go. The boys’ mother had decreed that her sons would each have three years of piano lessons as part of their Read the Rest…