My favorite record in the whole world

[Steve Schell]

In 1967 I was attending a Catholic elementary boarding school in Berkeley, CA. It was quite a time to be in the bay area, what with the Haight, People's Park etc. in full flower.

Sometimes I'd spend the weekend at home with a local kid when the Brothers made all the long distance boarders scram. This one weekend I went home with Kenny Harris to Oakland. On Saturday we were out bumming around and wandered into a thrift shop. I spotted a huge pile of new 45 RPM records, most of them having the same title: "You're Driving Me Crazy" by Dorothy Berry. Since the asking price was three cents I took a chance and bought one. When we got home we gave it a spin, looked at each other and grinned... it was good!

I still have that 45, plus a second copy I picked up in the '80s for $6. It had become a rare record, presumably because most of them wound up in that thrift shop in Oakland. Anyway, it still gets me going like no other single record I can think of. Now it is probably not as good a record as I think it is, because my perceptions are colored by all the pleasant memories of that period. Or maybe it is!

Dorothy Berry was the wife of the late Richard Berry, who is most famous for having written "Louie Louie." Why Dorothy remained obscure I'll never understand, because IMO she could sing as well as anyone, definitely up in Etta James territory.

I just happened onto a web site with an audio file of "You're Driving Me Crazy." Give it a spin!

http://www.last.fm/music/Dorothy+Ber...iving+Me+Crazy

[mikebake]

Nice!

[spkrman57]

I enjoyed listening to that Steve!

Thanks, Ron

[johnaec]

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Due to issues beyond our control, we have lost all power to our datacenter. Unfortunately Last.fm will be offline until further notice.

John

[johnaec]

I guess the U.S. could have used all that money blown in Iraq to rebuild our power grid.

Yeah - it's not so much that I mind paying taxes - I just think we should be allowed to determine *where* they're spent. Like on the tax forms, have a list of about 20 areas, (roads, education, security, etc.), where we could enter the percentage of our taxes we wanted applied. Of course that makes too much sense and would never fly - we'd be taking politicians' piggy bank away...

John

[mikebake]

Meanwhile, back to Steves favorite record in the whole world...............

[hjames]

Gee guys ... Sometimes, its not about us, err US, err U.S. ....

see - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last.fm

Last.fm is a UK-based internet radio and music community website, founded in 2002. It claims over 21 million active users based in more than 200 countries.


Also see - http://blog.last.fm/

Just another sign of our crumbling infrastructure. I guess the U.S. could have used all that money blown in Iraq to rebuild our power grid.

Oops!

Yeah - it's not so much that I mind paying taxes - I just think we should be allowed to determine *where* they're spent. Like on the tax forms, have a list of about 20 areas, (roads, education, security, etc.), where we could enter the percentage of our taxes we wanted applied. Of course that makes too much sense and would never fly - we'd be taking politicians' piggy bank away...

John

[Mr. Widget]

Thanks for sharing, Steve... when I listened to it this morning, it had been played a whopping 168 times. That is obscure! How did you find it?


Widget

[NickH]

I bet that gave you goose bumps. I would have. Very cool experience though to make a cool story even more cool.