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A friend found out that I was dedicating myself more to the old records again and, to my complete surprise, gave me her favorite records. She grew up in Michigan and I grew up here in Heilbronn, she collected 45rpm singles and I tended to collect LPs, but when it comes to music we had the same taste in music almost at the same time. On the one hand, this is due to the broadcaster AFN and, on the other hand, testifies to the fact that the world had already grown together musically much better in the 1970s than in most other fields.

And that's how I listen to the songs that Karen still enjoys listening to today. Listening to individual songs, which you also have to put on the turntable every time, takes some getting used to for me, especially after all these years of abstinence from records, and could also explain why I decided to play long-playing records at the time. Indeed, in retrospect, it would have been better to prioritize quality over quantity. In any case, I'm enjoying the individual songs more now than ever before. And I still wonder today how some songs could just be banished to the B-side.

plate 1: Trip, oldie with "I know" by Barbara George on the A side and "Mokingbird" by Inez Foxx on the B side.

plate 2: RCA, Gold Standard with "Everybody loves to Cha Cha Cha" by Sam Cooke on one and "Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke on the other.

plate 3: American Pie with "I wonder what she is doing tonight" by Barry and the Tammerlanes on one and "I had too much to dream (last night)" by the Electric Prunes.

plate 4: Eric Records with "I say a little prayer" by Dionne Warwick on one and "(Theme from) Valley of the dolls" by Dionne Warwick on the other.

plate 5: The Beatles with "The ballad of John and Yoko" on one side and "Old brown shoe" on the other.

plate 6: The Beatles with "Penny Lane" on one side and "Strawberry fields forever" on the other.

plate 7: Capitol with The Beatles "PS I love you" on one side and The Beatles with "Love me do" on the other.

plate 8: Atlantic with "Son-Of-A Preacher Man" by Dusty springfield on one and “The windmills of your mind” by Dusty springfield on the other.

plate 9: Eric Records with "Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo" by Rick Derringer on one and “Time of the season” by The Zombies on the other.

plate 10: Columbia with Bruce Springsteen "Pink Cadillac" on one and Bruce Springsteen "Dancing in the dark" on the other.

plate 11: Capitol with The Beatles' "Something" on one side and The Beatles' "Come Together" on the other — For jukeboxes only, record in blue.

plate 12: Columbia, Hall of Fame with "Subterranean home sick blues" by Bob Dylan on one and "Positively 4th Street" from Bob Dylan on the other.

plate 13: Columbia with "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by Bob Dylan on one and "A fool such as I" by Bob Dylan on the other.

plate 14: Geffen Records with "Blue eyes" by Elton John on one and "Hey Papa Legba" by Elton John on the other.

plate 15: EMI America with "You don't believe me" by the Stray Cats on one side and "Stray Cat Strut" by the Stray Cats on the other.

plate 16: Sun with "Save the last dance for me" by Jerry Lee Lewis on the A side and "Am I to be the one" by Jerry Lee Lewis on the B side — plate in yellow.

A total of 32 songs that will keep you busy for quite a while. You need more time to listen, but in the end the time flies by, at least as soon as you start googling the individual songs.

It gets exciting when you start thinking about how this small collection came about in the past - but I won't ask.

"Ce qu'on ne peut pas dire et ce qu'on ne peut pas taire, la musique l'exprime."

Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare (1864: 120)

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