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Throwing out the singles?!?! Horrors indeed! I had a similar story... One year - I decided to assemble a folder of all the keepsakes and newsletters from the fan club. Anyway - I used the single sleeve from Only Yesterday to decorate my notebook... and although I still have that notebook and cherish it's contents, I regretted using that artwork the moment the scissors hit that silver paper.My first vinyl was Carpenters (aka Tan). I think that everyone who knows me (and my affinity for Carpenters) would be surprised to learn that my first Carpenters' album was not procured by me but was a gift --- a gift from a school friend who moved away shortly thereafter. (Little did she know the monster she created! If I may borrow the name of Gaga fans for a moment... ). I know I've mentioned this previously, but I cut out the inner picture of Karen and Richard and framed it. So I mutilated the first Carpenters' album I owned!! It was love at first sight/listen. I thus had to purchase the earlier albums and the lifelong obsession was cemented.
You would think that I would feel particularly affectionate for this powerhouse album, which included the hits "For All We Know," "Rainy Days and Mondays," and "Superstar" as well as outstanding ballads "Let Me Be the One," "(A Place to) Hideaway," and "One Love." And yet, for me, it ranks third on my list of faves, preceded by Horizon and A Kind of Hush.
One other point: Remember when albums sold for $5 and singles (45s) sold for $1? At 40+ years later, you can download a single for $1. Everything has changed, and yet still $1 for a song... When a new Carpenters' single was released, I would dutifully buy the single. Then, when the album came out, I would throw away the single because I now had the song on an album... Horrors! What was I thinking?!?! I still have a few original singles, but I have all my albums in their original vinyl, even one with a gaping hole in the packaging...
...I recall asking for and receiving Ticket To Ride and The Singles 1969-1973 for Christmas in 1973.
That year - how I loved - dearly loved sitting in the den, with the Christmas lights shining,, the stereo headphones on - and those albums playing, as I gazed at the album covers... I must have read and re-read that Singles Booklet a hundred times.
Possibly my favorite Christmas as a kid. And the one Christmas, I can say with a fair amount of certainty, that I still have the gifts I recieved!
Throwing out the singles?!?! Horrors indeed! I had a similar story... One year - I decided to assemble a folder of all the keepsakes and newsletters from the fan club. Anyway - I used the single sleeve from Only Yesterday to decorate my notebook... and although I still have that notebook and cherish it's contents, I regretted using that artwork the moment the scissors hit that silver paper.
I think I replaced the sleeve later with some marked down purchase at the local record store - but the original is glued to a 25 cent blue folder... still in my possesion...