Someday
Well-Known Member
I've been thinking recently about many subjects and how we got along before the www ...
As some of us may remember, if you wanted information about something, you could ask other people (whatever happened to that?!), find an encyclopedia or go to your local library/book store.
Here in the UK, a work colleague had just got the Yesterday Once More compilation, so popular in 1985. On hearing it for the first time I was fascinated, along with the two photos included on the box art. Another work friend (I was only 17) told me KC had died from a drug problem and thought it was suicide. I knew nothing about Carpenters; it took many months to find any more information; nothing in the library. Then during a family holiday I found a cassette in Woolworths called ... Now & Then. We played it in the car and I remember being stunned by Karen's lower register. Soon after I found another cassette in a local music store: Voice of the Heart. For a long time I thought this was a 'complete' Carpenters album from years back.
Eventually, a new friend introduced me to the International Fan Club, and we would regularly write to Evelyn and ask her our questions. Replies would take months to come back, but she always responded and, on a couple of occasions, popped in a picture postcard for free.
So strange to think things were so different, even only 30 years ago! The world is practically unrecognisable since then ...
As some of us may remember, if you wanted information about something, you could ask other people (whatever happened to that?!), find an encyclopedia or go to your local library/book store.
Here in the UK, a work colleague had just got the Yesterday Once More compilation, so popular in 1985. On hearing it for the first time I was fascinated, along with the two photos included on the box art. Another work friend (I was only 17) told me KC had died from a drug problem and thought it was suicide. I knew nothing about Carpenters; it took many months to find any more information; nothing in the library. Then during a family holiday I found a cassette in Woolworths called ... Now & Then. We played it in the car and I remember being stunned by Karen's lower register. Soon after I found another cassette in a local music store: Voice of the Heart. For a long time I thought this was a 'complete' Carpenters album from years back.
Eventually, a new friend introduced me to the International Fan Club, and we would regularly write to Evelyn and ask her our questions. Replies would take months to come back, but she always responded and, on a couple of occasions, popped in a picture postcard for free.
So strange to think things were so different, even only 30 years ago! The world is practically unrecognisable since then ...