11 records or tapes for $1.00

Can you believe it?
11 records or tapes for $1.00

I was one of the thousand (or millions) of kids in the late 70's that was a member of the Columbia House Music Club.

How else can you explain this being part of my record collection.



We all know Dan Fogelberg, but who the hell is Tim Weisberg?
I know he was a flutist....is flutist pronounced flautist? Seems so, but maybe not.
...and was it the beard and moustache that made them twin sons?..or was it because they had the same father.
Beats me.
All I know is I haven't listened to this since 1977.
but I can still remember the "hit single" from that album?

I'll bet Arthur knows.

I own this album thanks to Columbia House as well


This was from the Chicago sucks era that started with this album and went to approximately, oh, I don't know...now?
I'll tell ya, those guys look happy. Especially the one with the hat on ( I said hat on) getting dry humped by Peter Cetera. I swear I don't know what possessed me to buy this one.
I cannot name even one song from this album...and if you know me at all, I can't say that about many albums released between 1966 and about 1990. But, this one I can.

Unless of course it was one of the dreaded "selections of the month".

See, the way Columbia House scammed millions of teenagers out of bajillions of dollars was by sending their catalog with a little slip of paper that said in infinitesimally small print something along the lines of
"If you don't want the selection of the month please check this box and send back by x date"


The date was usually about one day after you received it in the mail...and the selection of the month was apparently arbitrarily picked by some monkey that they kept in the backroom of some closet on the fourth floor of their headquarters in Terre Haute Indiana

How could you expect a teenager to handle that kind of pressure and responsibilty?

I was still trying to recover from the dissapointment of Evel Knievel not making it over the Snake River Canyon.

God damn, those were simpler times.

Of course a few slipped through here and there.
How else can you explain me owning this one?


Actually I think I made the trip to Musicland at the Maine Mall to purchase this one. Probably rode my bike down the highway to get there.

Good times

"Do you remember the 21st night of September?'
Unfortunately I do.

But I don't remember the name of the store next to it that sold organs. And I don't mean livers and kidneys.
Although those might have actually sold better.
 But I still remember what my favorite meal at York Steakhouse was (It was the #4 medium by the way)

and making arrangements to "meet under the clock" - sorry no picture of that

(a little anochronistic for most of you, but I'm sure some of you will get it)

You live you learn.

Somehow I did avoid those Pablo Cruise albums they always wanted me to purchase.

Even at 13 I knew better than that.

Enough for know

as my friends Earth Wind and Fire would say...

Ba de ya...never was a cloudy day

Peace and Love