As I continually compile and save little snippets of this-and-thats for potential posts (the modern equivalent of clipping recipes and stories from Parade and Reader’s Digest to send to family members), I find that I’ve been ruminating quite a bit on music.

I’ve got enough to write about it every day for the next week and declare it HaMuBloPoWe (Hambox Music Blog Posting Week)! Hot diggedity.

Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. Earliest musical memories:

• The hottest hits playing on my cheap plastic kid’s turntable: Alice in Wonderland soundtrack; a kid-friendly classical music compilation (given to me by my brother Paul); Sesame Street 1 & 2; and the personal favorite of my mother and me: Cinderella soundtrack
• Looking at a picture of the Beatles in a magazine and being cognizant of the fact that they had broken up recently (I was 6 or 7)
• Sitting on the school bus (1st grade maybe?) and requesting that an older girl repeat the line “I won’t wear green ’cause I look like a bean” (from a song that is otherwise totally lost to memory) and cracking up every time
• Sound of Music, Original Broadway Cast Recording. Over and over. Over and over and over. I’ll get back to that one this week.

Photo: We’ll Sing for Food!, by flickruser Ange. Thanks for letting me use it!