
The song I am sharing today is directly connected with memories of my first trip to the US. I was 15 and we flew over to NYC as part of a travel group. It was the year 1985. For the younger readers, at that time we had neither iPods nor smartphones. But I had my walkman (what is a walkman🤪) and serveral tapes – most of them I dubbed of long-playing records o “singles” myself.
Long-playing records? Those black oversized CDs which you had to put on a turntable and play with a needle which transferred the sound. “Singles”? The smaller version. There was only one song on each side. Yes, records have had two sides and you had to turn the record when one side was played to the end. Also we had to be very careful not to scratch the surface or the song was ruined either by the needle jumping over that scratch or because it got stuck and repeated the same part over and over again. They were not as robust as CDs. We did not have CDs either at that time yet, by the way.
So, I remember sitting in that bus with my headphones on. We had visited Washington D.C. and we were on the way back. It was already dark outside and I simply enjoyed being there and listening to the songs on my tape. Part Time Lover – Stevie Wonder
Call up, ring once, hang up the phone
To let me know you made it home
Don’t want nothing to be wrong with part-time lover
If she isn’t with me I’ll blink the lights
To let you know tonight’s the night
For me and you my part-time lover
We are undercover passion on the run
Chasing love up against the sun
We are strangers by day, lovers by night
Knowing it’s so wrong, but feeling so right
If I’m with friends and we should meet
Just pass me by, don’t even speak
Know the word’s “discreet” with part-time lovers
But if there’s some emergency
Have a male friend to ask for me
So then she won’t peek its really you my part-time lover
We are undercover passion on the run
Chasing love up against the sun
We are strangers by day, lovers by night
Knowing it’s so wrong, but feeling so right
We are undercover passion on the run
Chasing love up against the sun
We are strangers by day, lovers by night
Knowing it’s so wrong, but feeling so right
[Repeat]
I’ve got something that I must tell
Last night someone rang our doorbell
And it was not you my part-time lover
And then a man called our exchange
But didn’t want to leave his name
I guess that two can play the game
Of part-time lovers
You and me, part-time lovers
But, she and he, part-time lovers
Sources: YouTube/AZLyrics
Writer: WONDER STEVIE
In Love and Light
Great song. Completely forgot about it.
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Me too. I heard it lately and thought the same. I love this song!
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Haha, I still have some LPs somewhere!
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I hope a record player, too… lol!
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I need to find an antique one…. lol!
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LOL 😂
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😂
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Stevie Wonder is always a great choice! Thank you, Erika! Have a wonderful Monday! Michael
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I thought so too. His songs are great! Thank you, Michaael and you have a nice evening!
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You too, Erika! Yes, his songs are unbelievle, putting one into another world. 😉
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That’s true!
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:-))
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I remember those days so well, and now vinyl is making a comeback! I remember my very first ‘music centre’ that had a turntable, tape deck and radio. You could stack up to six records over the turntable so that when the first one finished, the next one would drop and play. And buying a new stylus (needle) was an art in itself because you buy the right one!.
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Oh, right, yes there were those! I only had the combination tape and radio and the record player separate. But I remember those devices.
It is funny, I never needed to buy a new one. But now that you mendion it. I think my father did. Back then listening to music was a ceremony. I have some vinyl records which are colored or have the cover image printed right on them. Those were special!
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They’ll be worth some money, especially if considered a ‘collector’s item’, Erika. I sold my complete vinyl collection on eBay many years ago. I was shocked by how much some of the records went for.
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Oh, I am not surprised. Original records are rare. The better the condition the better the price! I won’t sell mine so soon. They really are a treasure!
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It’s wonderful to look back at how things used to be. I still have my old vynl record collection and I still play my old LPs on a newer record player. I remember tapeing songs from Top of the Pops on TV. With one of those large two reals tape machines. How things have changed 😁 love Stevie Wonder. 💖
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Ha, wow, that was even more adventurous! I think it is cool that we used those “machines” 😄
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Yes we enjoy listening to the old records, and we now have an old record shop in town, which adds to our delight of choosing new music from second hand records 🙂
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Hey, that is really cool😃
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Such great memories sis!
Happy Monday 💜
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Oh, yes! It was so special and I will never forget those moments. Never had I thought that 13 years later I even lived there.
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And that is just so cool !
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Yay 😃
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