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The nostalgia reading this! You made me miss record stores. And also shocking and tormenting teachers and parents with our music and attire. And just, music from another era. My era, our era. Looking back, the album covers were original and influential.

My first album was Alive (Kiss)--I was five years old when my mother reluctantly bought it for me at Fedmart. It was the font and back cover that intrigued me. I told myself I'd go to concerts like the one pictured on the back cover (I did and I still do).

Other covers I thought were iconic and unforgettable are Candy-O (The Cars), Pleasure Victim (Berlin), Dead Man's Party (Boingo) and Get Nervous (Benatar).

Loved this post!

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Heidi Mohrlang's avatar

Prince 💥 Doobie Brothers 💥 Michael Jackson 💥 Earth Wind & Fire💥 Commodores 💥 Tommy 2Tone 💥 Hall & Oats 💥 Madonna 💥 FireFall 💥 Led Zeppelin 💥 English Beat 💥 Big Head Todd & the Monsters 💥 GOGOs 💥 Midnight Oil 💥 Bobby Brown 💥 Fleetwood Mac 💥 Whitney Houston 💥 Mariah Carey 💥 & Oh so many more of the greatest musical artists ever ‼️

My 2nd dad was a Freeform radio DJ back in the days after the Vietnam War. He became a DJ in the war - definitely not as portrayed in “Good Morning Vietnam” by the beloved Robin Williams. It was certainly a much more calm, yet humorous and engaging role to provide music and inspiration to the boys and men in his camp in Pnom Penh Vietnam.

When I was in the DJ booth with my dad, at age 7, he would tell me to pick a song, get the promo album from the library in the booth. I always picked Doobie Brother’s songs. After a short break in the midst of his long played music combinations (sometimes over an hour without interruption) I would sit on his lap, wait for his look and then introduce my chosen song and say, “This is KRNW 97.3 Boulder Colorado.” I was elated to be live on the air 🤗

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