Ten years ago a birthday
present from my daughter and her children was a lovely tabletop record/tape/cd
player. It was a great gift because I had quite a collection of long playing
albums I couldn’t listen to anymore. After the
novelty of the record player became ‘old’ I ignored my records. The gift was relegated to being only a ‘table
top’.
My record player has been
reactivated. I’m remembering it became
useful once again when Nick Simpson of Ashford and Simpson passed away last
summer. The sad news propelled me to
pull out my LP collection and look for the album I was certain we had. I found it and played it over and over.
Ashford and Simpson’s popularity
began when I was a happily married young woman.
We connected to those two lovebirds. Most likely, though, the album I
found, Ashford & Simpson-Stay Free,
belonged to my children since it was made in 1979. Could their talent have been popular with my
daughter and son’s generation, too?
Revisiting Ashford and
Simpson’s music, my body was up and down out of the comfortable chair, changing
that record from one side to the other. Or
running from one room to the other to keep the music playing.
Whitney Houston passed and I
am back to listening to old albums. The
music of Whitney’s first album, Whitney
Houston, is today’s favored audio backdrop while reading and, well doing
everything. I take care of all kinds of tasks
before changing the record and getting comfortable again.
I was thinking I should
download the CD for more convenient listening.
Then, hurrying upstairs with clothes from the laundry room, it was clear
I’m better off getting this added exercise. I do enjoy the long-playing records previously safely stored like the cherished relics they had become. Now the music moves me as I never imagined. It's a good thing for this too-sedentary person.
(And last week I began
walking in the park.)
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