Is there a Golden Oldie that you like but think others might not have heard before and can share with us? Mine is:

  It was already an oldie when I remember my parents blasting it on the record player as a .45 single. They had stacks and stacks of those things, they played all the old R&B favorites back then.  Being only about four or five years old, I didn't know much about the song at all other than loving how it sounded, and I knew absolutely nothing about who sang it.  

  I had not heard it since my childhood when it suddenly popped up again in my mid twenties, taking me back to those childhood memories.  I looked into it and found that the group singing it, The Essex, was made up of five US Marines, four men and one woman. I had also joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen, and eventually I was stationed at both Okinawa, Japan and later, Camp LeJeune, North Carolina; the same places where the band members had collectively been stationed.  I was still on active duty when I discovered the background of the group.  

  Little did I know at the time that I had a connection to them in that way.

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