[BC] "Love Is Blue" & memories

[Allen Sherrill]

>From: WFIFeng at aol.com
>There are several instrumentals that bring back good memories for me.
>"Autobahn" by Kraftwerk (the 45 version), Burt Kaempfert's version of 
>"Morgen" (My
>Mom is German), "Chariots of Fire" by Vangelis, "Popcorn" (by Hot Butter) 
>and a
>few others. There's definately a "soundtrack" running through my life, all 
>the
>way back to my earliest childhood.

When I was in first grade, one day the teacher asked us to bring in our 
favorite records to play in class the next day.  I guess she was expecting 
us to bring in stuff like "It's a Small World" or the other kiddie-type 
singalong records.

My dad was friends with a jukebox distributor, and he used to come home with 
boxes of used 45s that his friend would give him.  Most of them were nothing 
I was interested in at that age, but some of the novelty records I would 
latch onto and play over and over.

So, the record I brought to class that day was Sam the Sham and the 
Pharoahs, "Little Red Riding Hood", which to me was the perfect record to 
share with the class...fairy tale, a big bad wolf, etc.  When I put it on 
the record player, teacher jumped up quickly and said, "Oh, that's not what 
we want to play for the class today" and grabbed it off the turntable.  I 
was stunned.

Allen Sherrill