Rockabilly

Saturday, 30 December 2006

My life changed dramaticly when my parents bought me a portable Philips radio/cassette-recorder. That was around 1973, if my memories are correct, which they are not, for sure. But one of the first songs I recorded was Bohemian Rhapsody, which was a hit in those days, so it must have been around that year. To record songs from the radio on a cassette is something between an art and a sport. I immediately loved it and I have been doing it ever since. First I recorded cassettes for my own pleasure, but soon I began making tapes for friends, which became a major occupation, not to say obsession, for the rest of my life.
After My First Philips I have had many other cassette- and other recorders: dubdecks, DAT, minidiscs, audio-CD, you name it, I bought it. Today I use a soundrecorder on my computer, which feels like a Star Trek-toy, compared to all the Neanderthaler-stuff I have been using previously. Since I can make CD-compilations in stead of tapes, my production has outgrown the interest of most of the people that I trade or exchange music with, so my hobby is more and more becoming authistic behaviour.
Since I began to make CD-compilations from stuff I record from YouTube, I seem to have reached a point where hardly anybody wants to follow me anyfurther. Some say I have no taste, others complain about the sound-quality, I don´t know, I prefer to see myself as a misunderstood genius, who happens to excel in things that have no direct use or meaning for the people I happened to share my life with.
Anyway, among many others, I have made several CD-compiations of rockabilly-songs that can be found on YouTube. Because I cannot type very well I end up seeing a lot of videos that I never asked for. Recently I typed rockabiily in stead of rockabilly and found this video.

Despite the wrong tagging the video still has been viewed 640 times. It makes me wonder what those 639 other people were looking for.
In case you happen to share my taste in rockabilly, here are some of my top ten-favourites:
The Jancee Pornick Casino
Little Neal & The Blue Flames
The Booze Lovers
The Mystery Gang