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§ ≡ One of an ongoing series of posts in which I pick, in my not-so-humble opinion, the best songs of the second millennium. Feel free to offer constructive dissenting opinions; preferably set to music.
Song #11 is Ain't That a Shame, sung by Fats Domino.
I started my first job in the summer of 1955. The salary was zero, but it came with a decent benefits package: room and board; health care; and my parents' tender-loving-care. And to top it all off, there was a daily ham-and-cheese sandwich for lunch, which it was my duty to buy at the deli down the street for my father, his partner Frank, and myself. I was "helping" my father in his typewriter store in Elmont, New York, home of Belmont Park, the major thoroughbred horse-racing facility.
Another perk of my job was to listen to the radio on the workbench where I took apart the typewriters my Dad's customers left to be serviced. The song I remember best from that summer before my first year in Hicksville High School was Fats Domino's original version of Ain't That a Shame.
Post #745 § I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: Ain't That a Shame
§ ≡ One of an ongoing series of posts in which I pick, in my not-so-humble opinion, the best songs of the second millennium. Feel free to offer constructive dissenting opinions; preferably set to music.
Song #11 is Ain't That a Shame, sung by Fats Domino.
I started my first job in the summer of 1955. The salary was zero, but it came with a decent benefits package: room and board; health care; and my parents' tender-loving-care. And to top it all off, there was a daily ham-and-cheese sandwich for lunch, which it was my duty to buy at the deli down the street for my father, his partner Frank, and myself. I was "helping" my father in his typewriter store in Elmont, New York, home of Belmont Park, the major thoroughbred horse-racing facility.
Another perk of my job was to listen to the radio on the workbench where I took apart the typewriters my Dad's customers left to be serviced. The song I remember best from that summer before my first year in Hicksville High School was Fats Domino's original version of Ain't That a Shame.
Post #745 § I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: Ain't That a Shame
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