Eureka!
Remember mix tapes?
In the first flush of romance with Renaissance Woman, eleven years ago this summer, I made her a mix tape to take to music camp with her. This was in the olden, olden days, before you could just download music to your computer and burn it onto a CD with the click of a button. It took days to put together; it was a labor of love, and she loved it, to my pride and gratification.
Some years later, it got stolen off our front porch. I hadn't made a backup copy, and by then I had a full-time job and didn't have days and days to sit around making mix tapes--the songs were from a huge variety of sources, including some CDs from the library--but I eventually found a draft of the list of songs in my room. I put it in (wait for it) a Special Place so I Wouldn't Lose It. And it went into the ether where everything goes that gets put in A Special Place So I Won't Lose It, and I never saw it again.
Until today. RW and I have both been engaged in the huge endeavor of cleaning and packing our rooms so that we can exchange office spaces, and I was digging through an old "To Be Filed" box, and there it was.
And here it is, or as close as I can reconstruct for (I hope--ptui, ptui, ptui) posterity:
Side 1: "A Little Mystery to Figure Out" [and it is a mystery--I only have an early draft of this side]
In the first flush of romance with Renaissance Woman, eleven years ago this summer, I made her a mix tape to take to music camp with her. This was in the olden, olden days, before you could just download music to your computer and burn it onto a CD with the click of a button. It took days to put together; it was a labor of love, and she loved it, to my pride and gratification.
Some years later, it got stolen off our front porch. I hadn't made a backup copy, and by then I had a full-time job and didn't have days and days to sit around making mix tapes--the songs were from a huge variety of sources, including some CDs from the library--but I eventually found a draft of the list of songs in my room. I put it in (wait for it) a Special Place so I Wouldn't Lose It. And it went into the ether where everything goes that gets put in A Special Place So I Won't Lose It, and I never saw it again.
Until today. RW and I have both been engaged in the huge endeavor of cleaning and packing our rooms so that we can exchange office spaces, and I was digging through an old "To Be Filed" box, and there it was.
And here it is, or as close as I can reconstruct for (I hope--ptui, ptui, ptui) posterity:
Side 1: "A Little Mystery to Figure Out" [and it is a mystery--I only have an early draft of this side]
- Something to Talk about--Bonnie Raitt
- Almost Kiss--Ferron
- Love and Affection--Joan Armatrading
- Passionate Kisses--Mary Chapin-Carpenter
- Something Good (excerpt)--Julie Andrews, "Sound of Music" soundtrack
- Something So Right--Paul Simon
- Good Thing (Angels Running)--Patty Larkin
- Let's go Bonding--2 Nice Girls
- Like a Big Wheel--Whatsisname, folkie guy who did "My Name Joe"
- Things We Said Today--Beatles
- You're gonna Make me Lonesome When You Go--Shawn Colvin
- Dream a Little Dream of Me--The Mamas & the Papas
- Whatever's For Us--Joan Armatrading
- If I Were a Bell--"Guys and Dolls" Soundtrack
- Aftershock--BETTY
- Have a Good Time--Paul Simon
- Bellybowl--Ferron
- Ice Cream--Sarah McLaughlin
- Watermelon Song--Poi Dog Pondering
- I get a Kick out of You--Louis Armstrong
- In France they Kiss on Main Street--Joni Mitchell
- I'm Easy--"Nashville" Soundtrack
- I'm Lucky--Joan Armatrading
- Atsababy! (Life is Great)--Tom-Tom Club
- Magic Penny--Rosalie Sorrells
- Like a Rose--Lucinda Williams
posted by elswhere | 12:49 PM
5 Comments:
Well those songs are a blast from my past! How cool to find!
I have a tape My Beloved made for me when we first got together too. Ah, those wonderful, halycon days of a beginning romance!
Great stuff! So I am on a Quest to find out now what the Young People Today are calling mix tapes. I know they still make them! Are they "mix CDs"? or ipodloveya's? or what??
Every day I lick on here and see those horrible two words "mix tapes".
It brings me back to high school where I briefly dated a guy who spent hours making mix tapes for me.
I had to break up with him because he bought a new sweater and asked me how it looked. When I said I didnt care for it he burst into tears.
For some reason, the horror of that moment is always associated in my mind with mix tapes.
Oh, no, That Girl, that sucks!
I tried to post a post last night but the net went down just at the wrong time. I'll try again now!
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