Is it just us, or is our readership getting younger. Someone nicknamed Pursey (it is a nick, isn't it?) sent in this one withoput a comment. It was a hit way, way back in 2000, so Pursey's got to be around the twenty-ish mark. Nice. Thanks, Purse! (Send in your First Music, or if you have a favourite - just e-mail the name of the music, and the band or whatever.
Bit of a problem here. This was sent in by someone 'called' @&^%*"=, which back when Prospero was an illustrator was a bad word and unpublishable then and now. The thing is, it was a hit for Nirvana in 1992, so @&^%*"= will be around the 30s mark. He or she doesn't give any more information, but enjoy the music anyway...
Thanks, MoJo (whoDAT?!), for this one. There's no comment with it so we'll just Prospero's: "When I was a very young lad there was a great singer called Elvis Presley who had a hit with- oi!" On second thoughts, we won't include Prospero's reminiscences. This was a live performance at the Huoston Astrodome by, indeed, Cheap Trick, way back in 1989. One of the comments on the YouTube thingy we gort this from says: "You see, People shoudn't even try to do Elvis, because most don't have a clue, but when you're Cheap Trick,Or ZZTop, knock yourselves out because y'all do the King justice!! Thank-you!!!"
News is that The Monkees are getting back together again. Oh joy, oh rapture! An onlooker said, as we were putting this up, "They look really manky, worse than the Stones." So be it. As it happens, someone called Shirley sent this in about a month ago, with the comment that she was only four when someone gave her this 45 r.p.m. (no, youngster, we're not going to tell you what that is - ask Granny!). That was back in 1966, apparently...
'This one did my head in," says Stuart, who sent us this. Well, it would do wouldn't it? If you had to hear it all over again, and interminably since 1971! Anyway, thanks, Stuart...
A complete change of pace from last Saturday's Choice, thanks to Vanessa, who says, "I was a young teen when I was taken to see this in London. I fell in love with musicals and wanted to become a singer. Didn't happen, but I'm happy anyway." Nice, that! Composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, Cats first opened in the West End in 1981. It is the second longest-running show in Broadway history, and the fourth longest-running West End musical. It has been performed around the world many times and has been translated into more than 20 languages. And it was a job to find a song that has not been done to the death by every singer since Methuselah's wife Syndrome... This one is The Song of the Jellicoes.
This is a little departure from our latest Reader's Choice (My First Music) Saturday Morning items. In fact, we chose it ourselves because tomorrow, Sunday, February 6th would have been Marley's 66th birthday. His music was heavily influenced by the social issues of his homeland, and he is considered to have given voice to the specific political and cultural nexus of Jamaica. His music also influenced the development of Rock music in particular though not exclusively, and still does. (Read more about Mistah Marley on Wikipedia.)
"A boyfriend gave me this single when I was 12. Well, he wasn't really a boyfriend and I didn't have my own record player and my Dad wouldn't let me play it in the lounge, so I had to take it over to my friend Carrie's to listen to it." Thank you, Marla, for sending this one in. Even we remember this one but maybe because it's been used for so many commercials. The YouTube item says as follows:>
