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Eugene Church · 11-12-2020, 12:23 PM

I'm gonna take a short hiatus from the IPA and my North Island-South Island dynasty reports.

My only niece is 50 years old... she knows music has a special place in my life and my heart, so she asked if I would do her some CDs of my favorite music of all time... so for the next week I will work on her birthday gift from me... I plan to cover the history of pop music from "My Blue Heaven' by Gene Austin in 1926 to 1980, when I basically stopped buying pop and rock music... I found a stereo re-recording from the 1960s where Gene Austin re-created the song exactly according the original version... same arrangement and the same instruments... it is marvelously done... I can hear why "My Blue Heaven" was the first super hit in the USA... I will cover a few hits of the 20s and 30s... not very many of good quality sound-wise... the recorded quality of that period was pretty poor... but beginning in the late 30s it gets much better and is decently done... then, beginning with my birth year 1940, I will choose arguably the best 7 songs of each year until I reach 1981... it will give her a fairly good feeling for how the world of music and radio changed styles over the years and what the American public listened to on the radio... I should end up with about 10 CDs that are 80 minutes in length... about 300 songs... I have about 7450 recordings in my music library... almost all mint condition... meaning they are free of pops and clicks and the audio is good at the very minimal and overall excellent... yes, like I am very nitpicky when it comes to my logos, jerseys and OOTP graphics and I am even more nitpicky when it comes to the audio and sound quality of my music recordings.

See you folks in about a week... please don't forget about the IPA, NIPL, NIEL, SISL, SIPL and EC.

11-12-2020, 12:23 PM	#7545
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 35,946	I'm gonna take a short hiatus from the IPA and my North Island-South Island dynasty reports. My only niece is 50 years old... she knows music has a special place in my life and my heart, so she asked if I would do her some CDs of my favorite music of all time... so for the next week I will work on her birthday gift from me... I plan to cover the history of pop music from "My Blue Heaven' by Gene Austin in 1926 to 1980, when I basically stopped buying pop and rock music... I found a stereo re-recording from the 1960s where Gene Austin re-created the song exactly according the original version... same arrangement and the same instruments... it is marvelously done... I can hear why "My Blue Heaven" was the first super hit in the USA... I will cover a few hits of the 20s and 30s... not very many of good quality sound-wise... the recorded quality of that period was pretty poor... but beginning in the late 30s it gets much better and is decently done... then, beginning with my birth year 1940, I will choose arguably the best 7 songs of each year until I reach 1981... it will give her a fairly good feeling for how the world of music and radio changed styles over the years and what the American public listened to on the radio... I should end up with about 10 CDs that are 80 minutes in length... about 300 songs... I have about 7450 recordings in my music library... almost all mint condition... meaning they are free of pops and clicks and the audio is good at the very minimal and overall excellent... yes, like I am very nitpicky when it comes to my logos, jerseys and OOTP graphics and I am even more nitpicky when it comes to the audio and sound quality of my music recordings. See you folks in about a week... please don't forget about the IPA, NIPL, NIEL, SISL, SIPL and EC.