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



"Easier Said Than Done" by The Essex, 1963.





  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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Posted - May 14, 2020

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  • 23576
    I know that song and I like it!
    :)
      May 14, 2020 9:53 PM MDT
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  • 53505


      I'm glad to learn that you've heard it before!  I know how much you love music!
    ~ This post was edited by Randy D at May 15, 2020 7:50 PM MDT
      May 14, 2020 10:26 PM MDT
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  • 23576
    Excellent!! Very cool! (Thanks, as always, for your service, too.) I didn't know that about The Essex, either.

    I think my parents may have had that record, too. i know they had a wide range of all kinds of genres of music they liked. Hearing music was a constant in our house. :)





    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at May 17, 2020 8:22 AM MDT
      May 14, 2020 10:33 PM MDT
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  • 23576

    "Green Green"   New Christy Minstrels


      May 14, 2020 9:55 PM MDT
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  • 16764
      May 14, 2020 11:06 PM MDT
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  • 7404
      May 15, 2020 5:13 AM MDT
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  • 448
    Good News Week by Hedgehoppers Anonymous
      May 15, 2020 9:17 AM MDT
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  • 10636
      May 15, 2020 9:53 AM MDT
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  • 16764
    My mother's favourite band. She never got to see them play live in the sixties, so when they reunited for the Silver Jubilee tour, I made sure she got a ticket. She was blissed for weeks.
    I can't listen to The Seekers for long any more, I get weepy - I played The Carnival Is Over at Mum's funeral.
      May 15, 2020 6:06 PM MDT
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  • 2128
      May 15, 2020 10:18 AM MDT
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  • 6988
    The Lettermen had a concert at the local high school several years ago. I was going to go, but then I learned that there were no original members in the current lineup!
      May 15, 2020 11:50 AM MDT
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  • 2128
    Wow. Really? Just like Jefferson Starship huh?
      May 15, 2020 7:51 PM MDT
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  • 53505

      That's always a bummer; they come across as no more than a garage band or a cover band when that happens.


    ~
      May 15, 2020 8:48 PM MDT
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  • 10026
      May 15, 2020 10:54 AM MDT
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  • 10026
    I'm hoping this will go through. 
    In honor of my Grammie who was a WASP, I give you their song:

    https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth870745/

    This post was edited by Merlin at May 17, 2020 8:24 AM MDT
      May 15, 2020 11:55 AM MDT
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  • 44604
    I like that song. Here is my entry.

      May 15, 2020 4:58 PM MDT
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  • 16764
      May 15, 2020 10:36 PM MDT
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  • 5808
      May 17, 2020 8:21 AM MDT
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  • 16764
    How about a REAL "Oldie"? Seventeenth century - this composer taught Bach. Performed by a proper Baroque sextet - three Baroque violins (no metal fixings or chin rests, which is why the performers have their collars draped over the top of the instruments), cello, single manual pump organ (the organist is swaying because she's working the bellows with her feet) and theorbo (bass lute).

    This post was edited by Slartibartfast at May 17, 2020 5:52 PM MDT
      May 17, 2020 5:48 PM MDT
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