I drive and I listen to the Yanni Voices CD and I listen and I drive to the Yanni Voices CD…and when I’m not singing along thoughts are flowing through my mind.

One of the greatest experiences of listening to music is where it takes you. This CD feeds me in the present, has me dreaming of the future and it takes me to the past and I re-evaluate who I am and what I like.

This morning it struck me that I am, always have been, and always will be, eclectic. Everything about me from my wardrobe to the furniture in my home to my taste in music has always been eclectic. There is no definitive pattern or style. No fashion sense. LOL! No keeping up with the Joneses. No rhyme. No reason. It is what it is. I am who I am. The Yanni Voices CD is also very eclectic and that is the reason why, I believe, I enjoy listening to this music so much.

Recollecting my earlier music listening days, I remember Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 being a favorite as well as the soundtrack from the movie, Born Free. I would switch over playing one to another and then move on to the soundtracks of West Side Story or Oklahoma to sing my little heart out. We’re talking 11, 12, maybe 13 years old. I’ve never purchased or owned a Beatles album in my lifetime. I wasn’t ga ga over Elvis Presley. I used to think I was strange. Now, I know I was as normal as an ‘individual’ can be.

Just some eclectic thoughts.

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Recollecting my earlier music listening days, I remember Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 being a favorite as well as the soundtrack from the movie, Born Free. I would switch over playing one to another and then move on to the soundtracks of West Side Story or Oklahoma to sing my little heart out. We’re talking 11, 12, maybe 13 years old. I’ve never purchased or owned a Beatles album in my lifetime. I wasn’t ga ga over Elvis Presley. I used to think I was strange. Now, I know I was as normal as an ‘individual’ can be.

Judi, you and I are of the same generation! I loved the songs you did and such a variety of melodies and emotions. There was one big difference, though. I was very much and still am, a huge Beatles fan! But back then I never had a chance to see them perform like I have with Yanni's tours.

I have a variety of tastes in music also. When I was a college student in Duluth, Minnesota, in the same year, I attended both a Steppenwolf AND a Ferrante-Teicher (dual pianos) concert at their auditorium! I recognized way back then, that I loved piano and the varieties in melodies it produces. And it does take one away to a different climate, scene, paradise, wherever one wants to be transported to. (By-the-way, I was a freezing, snow-covered student in the winters at the same time Yanni was a freezing, snow-covered student at the U of Minn. Minneapolis! One big difference was that half of the Minneapolis streets weren't closed to traffic due to being impassible like they were in Duluth )

Pandamae

Judi...thanks for the memories. I literally bought "Born Free" & like you said played it over & over, as well as "Love is Blue" (that one I bought the sheet music to, & sang it in French. Always loved piano music, as well as many other genres, like surfing, Motown, rock, disco, musicals, classical, & a variety of others. I think there are only two or three kinds of music that I definitely can't get into, but the rest I'm open to, & love the variety in these new albums. I love them too, & enjoy the differences in all of the songs.

Anyway, thanks for zooming me back to the slingshot future.

Oh my, ladies...thanks for the memories!! As I was wandering down that lane I also remembered babysitting for the neighbor next door. They had a stereo and the Simon and Garfunkel album Wednesday Morning 3AM I played and played and played that album soooo often after the child had gone to bed. I too have a varied musical taste...was exposed to many different styles thanks to concert and marching band in high school as well as to my dad. He worked at the local radio station and quite often would bring home an album that they couldn't use any more because of a scratch on it...or they received a duplicate or whatever. Mmmmm,yeah, Ferrante & Tiecher one of my absolute favorites!
And these kids...wow, what fabulous voices. They all have a wonderful future ahead of them.