I hope you can read the picture above or else it is not fun atall. I know it will enlarge on your phone and I can read it on my desk top so I am publishing it in hopes it is not just a hot mess.
I retired in 2009 after 40 years working for the phone company. I had no idea I would leave my job two months before I left. I had not considered it atall. But they powers that be needed to trim the herd, I was an old cow and made a lot of money, so they made me an offer I couldn’t refuse and I became a woman of leisure. (?) But, a few years before I left, I started the sampler you find above. I finished all the text long before I retired and it got put away until TODAY when I pulled it out of a box that said small projects and completed it.
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This is The Great American Rock n Roll Sampler. There are 24 quotes on the first row down and an average of 6 quotes across for a total of about 150 or more. I put it on the opening page here because in my browser view it is larger and readable. It may not be when it publishes. It took a lot of pixels.
It begins with “I know its only rock and roll, but I like it” and ends with “When the music’s over, turn out the lights”. In between are some of the best lines from the mid 1960’s into this new millennium.
I started it and when people saw it being formed, they chipped in their fave music quotes for me to add. I had a bowl on my desk and people dropped little slips of paper in with their choices. One guy came up to my desk and doing his best Hendrix, sang “You make me want to get up and scream!” I added it. Many lines are so famous in my generation that I almost always heard folks start to sing one line or another. Some are not well known lines that were faves of mine or the family. I wrote down things as I remembered then and tried to look them up for accuracy but don’t beat myself up of any errors.
The orange thread did not show up as well as I thought it would so those quotes are harder to read. But the blue I bordered it in makes the orange show up better than it did. I had no idea.
I hope you can and will read it and maybe sing along with a line or two. I feel like all of us are of an age to remember most of these songs but if not, some of them are showing up as commercials. Yuck!!
Have a good day all. Have a fun and safe Halloween too.
