Lost recording found!
In my last post, I mentioned a recording I remembered making when I was a kid. I had assumed it was lost, but I was delightfully wrong. My dad found the tape stashed in an old desk drawer. He managed to get it to play one time to digitize it. The cleaned up mp3 version sounded pretty good.
For just over four minutes, my brother and I took turns singing songs with my grandfather and other adults in the background coaching us on. There was several rounds of 'old MacDonald had a farm' and various others ranging from 'Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' to 'Jack and Jill went up a hill'. It was a little weird to listen to, partly nostalgic yet I hadn't remembered that we sang (I had thought we'd just talked).
There I am, middle of singing the songs on the tape. The photo was probably taken in the early 80's (I had remembered it had been taken, yet in my memory I was wearing Grover-blue pjs). I've never been much of a singer, so I'm amazed they got me to sing that day.
This recording is now safe, digital versions are now in many people's hands--people connected to it instead of strangers who could only wonder about the children's voices it contained.
As a tangent, check out those gold upholstered chairs in my grandparent's house (in the picture above), we re-upholstered them a while back and I've been sitting on them ever since. Now that I'm looking closer, I see that the cabinet the recorder is on and the old-fashioned chair in the top right are also in my house.