Guys.....
Guys.....
HEY GUYS!!!
(Yes it's my Pittsburgh-ian plural for everyone in the room)
I AM SOOOOOO EXCITED!!!
No one else would get why this is a big deal except for this forum, but for the past 18 years I have been searching for a particular Christmas album that was released in 1972. My mother bought it new way back then in the cassette tape version. When we moved to Florida, I was so disappointed and disheartened, particularly at Christmas, that I began playing it in my room at night as I was falling asleep.
When Christmas was over that year, I asked if I could keep it in my room and continue playing it. I remember my mother thinking I was crazy to want to continue playing it past Christmas, but by then it came to be a peaceful solace for me. So whenever I was missing my grandparents, aunt and uncles, home, snow, weather, seasons, school, friends... you name it... I played it while falling asleep. I think in the long run, it became a self-hypnosis of sorts. LOL The more I listened, the more of a Christmas-aholic I became. I kept it through college, into my first apartment, through every move.... you get the picture. It was old and I treasured it. When I got my first stereo system that allowed me to back up a cassette tape, I did so, to protect the original. It became so cherished to me, I only played it on Christmas Eve for fear of the tape breaking.
In 1998, two years after we were married, we had a bad hurricane come through and our house flooded. The cassette tape was at the bottom of an entertainment center cabinet along with other holiday CDs and such. Floor level - with the rest of the watery muck - it was ruined. I was crushed.
It wasn't until after that I realized I never really paid attention to the finite details of the album. I thought it was Time Life books or Reader's Digest who had published it. I knew for sure it was copyrighted in 1972 and the album picture I knew like the back of my hand. All those years I thought the album name was Christmas Magic. I started an internet search. Every once in a while I'd look for it hoping to find a copy, but it seemed hopeless.
Today for no particular reason, in between projects, I decided to just go through Google Images after putting in "Christmas Magic, 1972" Way down on the 8th page of images, I saw it!! The jpeg of the album cover!! It was an ebay item that was sold, but the cover images showed me that the name was "The Magic of Christmas," it was 1972, but the publisher was Columbia House Music! Back to Google - I put that in and found the vinyl album (turns out it was 3 albums in one set, I never knew that), on a collector's site store on Amazon in "Like New Condition," still in the plastic sleeve, records look flawless in the images! I bought it!!!!
It'll be here in two days!! Noah has a stereo system in his room that plays vinyls and records them to mp3s! I am so excited!!! I can have one of my favorite memories of Christmas back, on my cloud drive to access from anywhere and keep the vinyls in tact! I am on Cloud 9!!!
Yes - I'm that goofy. LOL
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. Hope your January has started off well.
