Mom & Music

I was remembering things with my mom tonight…

I always loved music and attached to music at a really young age… the very first song I ever loved was Rhinestone Cowboy lol… I was 3 … yes I can remember!! In my mind, I can remember everything like it was yesterday…

Every Thursday was my mother’s grocery shopping day… she would put me in this blue flowered car seat in their 1972 Pontiac LeManns (which I hated the smell of!! Was the vinyl seats or something I don’t know… but hated that smell)

She would buckle me in… in the “front seat” lol … and then we would start to drive to the grocery store… every single time at the same time every Thursday that song came on the radio – and 3 year old “me” would belt it out lol … it used to make my mother laugh. If we would get to the store before the song was over – I would make her wait lol 😄😄

My first crush at 4/5 years old was on a singer (lol) I laugh to look that up though… that was back in 1976/77…

I always thought he was soo cool and really funny – he made me laugh all the time… and his voice ❤️ I just loved his voice!! He had a deep unique voice… and he had the New England accent…

We were from the east coast and I miss that accent – we always moved all over the country growing up (no not military, my dad was a big wig at a corporation) … but I hear that accent and I dunno, I miss it – makes me feel “home” … New England area was just always a constant in my life – in a life where a child is always moving… you don’t have a “constant” … is always new and different … New England was my constant… my entire family was there except for us. We visited every holiday and sometimes I got to spend summers there with them.

Anyway… just wanted to explain the accent thing… when I hear it – I remember my constant… it makes me feel a sense of home…

When I look back at this stuff now… It’s just funny – as a child this performer was so amazing… still is… he still makes me laugh just seeing it and his voice is still pretty awesome – I just like that it’s different… but looking at it now it makes me laugh even more!

I had a crush on Bowser from Sha-Na-Na lol Oh my god! He does still make me smile though ❤️ (way way way different than today’s world!! Everything about it lol) My mom was like “what were you thinking?” Lol I don’t know lol … I was little

I also remember a show called Solid Gold – which I loved loved loved … music and dancing!!

Lol my mother did not like that I loved that show… so she would watch it with me – just incase some of those women wore things that were too racy for me to see or the dances be too racy 😄😄😄 lol (they tried to shelter me a lot)

She was not a fan of that show, at least watching it with me lol she always thought was too racy for tv lol (my how times have changed)

And then came Madonna and Like a Virgin 😄😄😄 Oh my god! That one practically killed my mother 😄 – she did not like Madonna whatsoever lol – I was not allowed to watch MTV (only when I went to friends houses was I able to)

They did try to shelter me from a lot, but growing up at that time … that was when video games were beginning and music was pushing limits, MTV came out … so it was hard. They did shelter pretty good though and moving all around helped that.

But music was a thing for me always.

My dad played the accordion (yes I know! NOT the coolest instrument lol) but he could play any song on that thing!! Including top hits – you name it he could play it!! When we were younger we would dance around the living room while he played.

When I was in 5th grade my mom used to pick up one of my friends little brothers from school… in return for my mother doing that … her mother offered free piano 🎹 lessons for me 🤨 … I was less than thrilled lol … I just wanted to play with my friend

I would go over after school and have piano lessons for an hour 😝 hated it!! And no – I don’t remember how to play, cause I wasn’t interested in the first place. I would sit there and do the lessons – just waiting for it to be over so I could go play with my friend lol …

As soon as piano lessons were done – I would get to play with my friend and then we would have a snack and watch the Love Boat and Fantasy Island reruns lol … those theme songs remind me of those moments

I am not an instrument person – singing yes!! Always… just not an actual physical instrument … and I can’t read music.

I just like to enjoy music that’s all.

My kids are instrument people… they can read music and hear things that I can not.

Music is memories or feelings to me… even the new stuff attaches to people, feelings, things or moments in time.

But was funny to remember Sha-Na-Na tonight and Solid Gold… my mom would hustle herself in front of the tv if it was too racy lol

She tried lol ❤️ I used to tease her and say one day I was gonna be a solid gold dancer lol – she would gasp and say my full name lol 😄😄❤️ I kinda loved that reaction from her lol

When I talk to her now… we can still laugh about this stuff because she remembers the past. Just not current. I always just love laughing with her ❤️… even if I can’t have her normally I can still laugh with her ❤️