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Paula Carl (Cowee Miller)

Fred,

Good find!! The group is called "Richmond" from Albuquerque. "Feels Like Home (New Mexico True)" was used in several TV & Radio ads including the New Mexico Tourism Department. I laughed when he walked over and petted the 'picture' of the wolf!

Thanks for contributing!

01/14/23 11:48 AM

#6956

Patrick Riley

Saundra, makes several good and valid comments about New Mexico. It does, indeed, get under your skin.

Since college, I've lived in Seattle Washington, Orange County California, and Colorado Springs Colorado (where we live now).

What does this tell you ... I still subscribe to the Albuquerque Journal but have not even thought about the Orange County Register or Seattle Times since leaving those areas.

Also, I'll be watching the Lobo men's basketball game this evening at 7:00pm Mountain time on the CBS Sports Network. Y'all should watch too!

01/14/23 12:35 PM

#6957

Patrick Riley

I also wanted to comment on Rex's background photo collage of the KSWS Television Studio and Tower ... rather their first tower.

How many of you remember the second KSWS tower on the Cap Rock? It was 1,786 feet tall and was, for a time, the world's tallest man-made structure. The Empire State Building was (and still is) 1,454 feet tall.

What happened next? As I'm sure many of you remember, it collapsed in an ice storm in 1960.

Sad ... to my knowledge, it was never rebuilt to anything close to its former height.

01/14/23 02:18 PM

#6958

Pat, I remember that tower! In fact, our folks took us out to view it one time. Great Saturday trip! And of course we were all duly impressed with its height.
Rex, I love the song and I agree with everyone else that it really makes me miss my home state!

01/17/23 12:32 PM

#6959

Reminising about good ole days...?!!

How many remember your "first" 45 rpm Record!!

01/17/23 02:45 PM

#6960

My first 45 was "Young Love" when I was in the 7th grade. The back side was "Red Sails in the Sunset." We played that record over and over at a slumber party at my house!

01/17/23 03:00 PM

#6961

Ah yes.. Gentleman "Sonny James" the heart throb of many a young local lass!

01/17/23 03:04 PM

#6962

Guess Sonny must have been! It's so long ago, I can't remember!

01/17/23 05:43 PM

#6963

I spent many Saturday at Caprock studios. Does any one remember the childrens program televised out there with the clown, who was John Anderson "Cactus Jack". He was my Brother-in-Law back then!

I love the song New Mexico!! I am so glad I moved "HOME"!!

"AWH" True Love

I remember going to someones house, and to this day I can not even remember who's house it was I do remember it was on Union and faced the side street, I am not sure what the side street was but it was on the southeast corner and might have been Deming but anyway it was in that area! To go on, Sonny James had been in town preforming and he came to the slumber party and sang "True Love" to us!!! It was thrilling!! Maybe someone else can remember that night better than me!!

01/17/23 05:50 PM

#6964

I had just looked this up a few days ago! I meant to post it with my othe message!

Sonny James - Young love (1956) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com › watch

Lyrics

They say for every boy and girl There's just one love in this whole world And I know I've found mine The heavenly touch of your embrace… Full lyrics

01/17/23 06:21 PM

#6965

By Popular Request!!!

Our Roswell girls sure have some nice heart felt memories!!

Sonny sang it in 1957... did it with great justice in 1965!

01/18/23 10:47 AM

#6966

Thank you Sherry and Rex! It is just as I remembered!

01/18/23 10:52 AM

#6967

Patrick Riley

I don't remember my first 45 RPM but certainly remember my first two LP albums. When I was growing up, we had no record player in the house except an old entertainment console featuring an AM radio and a 78 RPM (only) turntable. It was complete with a few Bing Crosby (and similar) 78s my parent had purchased ... as we'd say ... pretty "rectangular" (square).

After years of delivering the El Paso Times, selling Spudnuts door-to-door, doing pick-up yardwork jobs, etc.; I finally got my first "real" job at the First National Bank. We got paid once a month in (strangely) cash. I took the proceeds of my first month to Papworth Furniture (remember Pam Papworth?), and bought a semi-portable (big) stereo record player with detachable speakers you could stretch to each side of the room.

I was happy! But I'd spent essentially everything and I had no records. I scraped together my pocket change and came up with exactly a dollar. I went to the pawn shop on south Main Street and browsed their bin of 50¢ record albums selecting two:

- The self-titled The Kingston Trio (1958)

- Sandy Nelson's Let There Be Drums (1960)

I presented my dollar in change to the pawn shop owner who informed me it would be $1.04 with tax.

As I looked back and forth at my two albums trying to decide which to put back, the shop owner took pity on me and let me have both!

As it was a month until I got paid again, I literally played the groves off those two LPs over the next 30 days.

Yep ... we all love our olden day's music! Tell me ... who remembers their first music download?

I need to take a minute and remember and thank "Bambi" Childress (Floyd Childress II). Sadly Bambi died of AIDS from a blood transfusion many years ago! Bambi's parents literally owned (at least some of) the First National Bank. Bambi was well cared for and had one of the coolest raked '59 Chevys you'd ever see, a private bedroom above his garage and, seemingly, every record album ever released.

Bambi would spend hours playing music for us ... loud as we were above the garage. More importantly, he knew a lot about music and really helped turn me into the music fan I am today. Thanks Bambi!

01/18/23 09:34 PM

#6968

Tommy Weathers

I remember my first record player was a 45 player that pluged lnto the back of a RCA radio. I also sold spudnuts and worked for Shamas grocery store. My mom loved the oldies and would buy one a week.I need to thank Bam for getting Pat into music.Pat has helped me with a bunch of music from his collection. Thanks Pat.

01/19/23 05:24 AM

#6969

John Doyal

I also don't remember my first 45, think it was a venture one. I joined the columbia record club and got a free record player and 12 albums(all the Johnny Cash they had). I got an album every month, my choice if I got the request back in time. I quit their club when I went to college and had about 200 albums and a stack of 45s. My siblings and my mom played them until after I got out of the service and got married. I still have about 100 left after giving favorites to family. I made the mistake of storing the albums on a bottom shelf and my daughters cat used them for a scratching post, didn't harm the records, but ruined the cover edges. I still play them once in a while, but find it easier to listen to pandora while on my computer (they change the records). I also have several 8 tracks and a stack of CDs, but the vinyl is still the best.

01/19/23 10:36 AM

#6970

Joe Treat

My first record player was a wind-up player for 78"s. The record I remember playing and liking was a song by Bing Crosby version of "Pistol Packin Mama". I was only 5 years old. We lived 40 miles from any town. Our electricity was from a "wind Jammer" electricity generating windmill. The technology at the time only produced DC and not AC-DC power. We had electric lights, but appliances or record players would not work. I had other records with more kid themes, but I do not remember the specifics. I ended up winding the player too tight and broke it.

01/22/23 11:38 AM

#6971

Who do you think will win today's playoff NFL Games...

Bills or Bengals

49'ers or Dallas

01/22/23 02:53 PM

#6972

Bengals!!

DALLAS!!

01/23/23 08:04 AM

#6973

Bengals and 49er's won. Should Brett Maher be looking at another profession...?

01/23/23 10:40 PM

#6974

Should Brett Maher be looking at another profession...?

ABSOLUTELY!!! He should have started after last week!!

01/25/23 09:55 AM

#6975

Don Ervin, Thanks for sending me the instrumental “Bulldog” the other day!

How many remember the “Fireballs” of Raton, New Mexico? George Tomsco, lead guitarist of The Fireballs, still performing “Torquay” some 55 years later!

Tomsco’s distinctive guitar work influenced countless instrumental and surf guitar bands in the ‘60s and beyond.“Torquay” in 1959 followed by “Bulldog” in 1960! More hits including "Sugar Shack", which became #1 in 1963, and “Bottle of Wine” in 1967. The “String-a-longs” and ‘Ventures’ each did a cover of ‘Torquay’ in 1961!

Listen to these gray-hairs performing in their 70’s. Surf’s Up Dudes!!

01/25/23 10:37 AM

#6976

John Landess

Does anyone remember Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. or attend school with him??

01/25/23 02:49 PM

#6977

Rex,

Those Gray Hairs have still got it! They havn't lost their touch!

01/25/23 03:00 PM

#6978