Blondie
I have liked Blondie’s music since I was four years old, which is the age where I received a Blondie tape for my fourth birthday. I used to listen to that tape on a portable tape player, which was also given to me on my fourth birthday. I remember taking that tape recorder/player with me everywhere from the ages of four to seven years of age. I used to also really enjoy that Blondie tape and played it numerous times. Sorry, I can’t remember what the tape was called!! hehe and the tape had a photo on the cover with Debbie Harry’s hair in a bun like hairdo. The songs I used to really like on the tape were “I’m a Gonna Love you to”, “Denis”, “I Know but I Don’t Know” and “Heart of Glass”. Also from the ages of 4-7 when I used to go to The Coast with my family and my parents would drive there, I’d listen to this Blondie tape and my Abba tape. Abba’s tape is also a music tape, which I used to play contantly when I was a kid.
Photo of a portable tape recorder, similar
to the one I had years ago.
I started to re-like listening to Blondie’s music when I was in Year 10. In about 1993 I bought the Best of Blondie. Some of the songs on that CD are: “The Tide is High”, “In the Flesh”, “Sunday Girl”, “Picture This” and “Rip Her to Shreds”. What I also like about the CD is the cover as it shows Debbie Harry in a really nice white dress and there are great buildings in New York shown behind the band’s photo.
Cover Photo of The Best of Blondie
About five years ago I also bought Blondie’s 1978 CD called Parallel lines. I bought it because it’s got some really great songs in it such as ”Hanging on the Telephone”, “Sunday Girl”, “One Way or Another”, “11.59″ and “I Know But I Don’t Know” etc.
Cover Photo of Parallel Lines
I also like a few of Blondie’s videos, which I have seen on Youtube and which I used to listen to and watch on a late night music video show called Rage. These videos are “Rapture” and “Heart of Glass”.
Youtube Video of Rapture
In 1998 Blondie reformed as a group and released a new album called “No Exit”. In the same year I bought a CD single from that album which is called “Maria”.
Cover Photos of "No Exit" and the CD Single "Maria"
About three years ago I rented a DVD movie with Deborah Harry in it, which is called Life Without Me (2003) In the movie Deborah Harry acts as the mother of a lady who is dying of cancer. The reason why I hired this movie is because Scott Speedman was in it and I was/ am a fan of this very attractive American actor.
Photo of Scott Speedman
Photo of Deborah Harry in Life Without Me.
That’s it for today folks. Thanks Frances
Donna Summer
I don’t have a long story regarding Donna Summer, but the first and only Donna Summer record I bought was in around 1990. I bought this double record set of hers called “Bad Girls” (1979) at a local second hand market. Well I really liked that record of Donna Summers back then and would play it on my record player. Some of the songs on that record included: “Dim all the Lights”, “Walk Away”, “Bad Boys” and ”Sunset People” etc.
In about 2003, I had to throw away my old record player as it wasn’t working properly anymore. Due to that I couldn’t listen to the Donna Summer double record set anymore. In about 2004 I bought the double CD set of the same title (Bad Girls). Also in the same year I was doing a Communication and Media Diploma. Part of the Diploma entailed making up a short video. So I used the Donna Summer song “Hot Stuff” and produced a music video. Five other people were also in the music video. I also included a lot of different effects, which my teacher at the time helped me to do.
Youtube video of Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
I don’t really listen to the double CD set “Bad Boys” by Donna Summer anymore as most of the songs include sappy love songs. The songs which really stand out for me from the double CD set include Hot Stuff, Dim all the Lights and Bad Girls. I don’t really get into constant love songs. But I do like the CD cover, which gives the records a lift.
Donna Summer - Bad Girls album cover
In about 2006 I bought the Best of Donna Summer at a local CD shop. That CD has got some really great songs. Some of which are: Love to Love you, On the Radio (1978), Hot Stuff (1979), I Feel Love (1977), McAurthur Park (1978), I Feel Love, ”No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)” (1979), ”Last Dance” (1978), MacArthur Park (1978) (Casablanca), ”Hot Stuff” (1979), 1982: “I Feel Love” (1982)
Photo of Donna Summer in the late 1970's
Photo of Donna Summer and Barbara Striesand. They sung Enough is Enough as a duet together in 1979.
Various photos of Donna Summer
That’s all from me today folks. Frances
