BP 30 Wk2-2 DB Quickie: CD Ownership, Music Sharing or Spontaneous Listening comment Danni Brayer

Danni, what a wonderful memory to have! Now that you mentioned it, I too, had a deep interest and connection with the Peter and the Wolf story and accompanying music! The music was so thematic that I listened to it over and over and over again (the music accompanied the words on my album and came with the story book). I thought the music was fascinating! Thanks for sharing and bringing back a very cool memory for me.
Wk2-2 DB Quickies: CD Ownership,
Music Sharing or Spontaneous Listening
Do you remember the first song/artist that touched you on an emotional level, not just a catchy tune, but something that sank in under the skin?

Danni Brayer says:
June 12, 2010 at 4:52 pm
OKay…some of your all’s (my accent coming out) posts made me cry…some of them took me back in time. But I must confess when I first read the questions above the first thing that came to mind was the summer that I was about to turn 9.
For Christmas that year, I had received a ‘blue’ record player. I thought I was in heaven. I came with Sesame Street 45s (we didn’t get it on TV where I lived, so I had never heard of them before), some fairytale storybooks on record (45s – turn the page when you here this noise – tling), and a few big 33 records of Disney stories with some pictures to look at while I listened to the story play. I LOVED those; I’m a visual learner.
Well, unbeknown to me, my mom had enrolled me in a monthly Disney record album (33) club, so starting that January I began received two albums. That summer I received my two albums – one was about little birds going to school, they were taught by none other than the wise old owl, and being taught about the different types of instruments that make up an orchestra. A tuba sounds like this and a flute sounds like that.
However, it was the second album I immediately thought of with the prompt. It was an orchestrated version of ‘Peter & the Wolf.’ I remember listening and listening and listening to it over and over and over again. I could listen to the music, no words mind you, and with the picture from the album cover, compose the whole story in my minds eye, aka my imagination. It wasn’t until years and years later I actually saw the animated version and, even then, I talked about that’s how I imagined it or not that’s wrong it should be like this. I would ask my mom, “What instrument is making this sound? The guy calls it an oboe.” I said, “Can you show me a picture?” We didn’t have the Internet, way back then, or a set of encyclopedias, so she found the closest thing she could and explained to me that an oboe looked a lot like a clarinet, which we had a picture of on another album, but the top was made different. I need to know what the instrument was to make sure that I understood Sasha’s, the bird, character for my ‘imaginary’ story. I can still hear and see the story in my head today.
So, believe it or not, mine was orchestration…not rock. I believe it is because it ‘fueled’ my imagination.
Briefly share how you use music in your personal life: are you a CD collector, someone who gets their music off the Internet through friends or Peer-to-Peer networks or do you have a music subscription where you can listen to whatever music you feel like listening to at the moment? Or are you some combination of the above?