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Deborah Lundbech / Photos

Cheryl c. 1958

Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: MUSIC LOVER (Feb. 10 - Feb. 16, 2025)
This is my friend Cheryl, someone who loves music more deeply than most people I know. I've known her since I was ten, but only became close friends with her in high school. In our early 20s we moved to Vermont together - and our lives were absolutely full of singing and music
She has worked at Yale and other universities for many years as a grant overseer, but about six or so years ago, she got a spot volunteering at a radio station with her own show (she chooses all the music, unlike most stations now). Such a great show.
This was the job she was always meant to have.
I love this picture of her, blissed out by her Christmans present, and foreshadowing her lifetime love of music.
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RicksPics said:

Thanks for your lovely story of the photo, your friend, and your friendship. She does appear to be enthralled. I remember my first record player, also a Christmas present, and the pleasure my sister and I had, playing records and singing along.
5 weeks ago

Deborah Lundbech said:

Thanks, Rick!
I remember that my musician brother was given a 45 in when we got a new "radiogrammme." This was in England when he was probably three years old. It was Tommy Steele, singing his wildly popular hit "Little White Bull". and family legend has it - and I remember - that he played it endlessly.
5 weeks ago

RicksPics replied to Deborah Lundbech:

Thanks for the link, Deborah. I was not familiar Tommy. What a prolific and versatile artist he is, still going at 88. Reading his Wikipedia entry, I learned that I had seen one of his sculptures while on a Beatles tour in Liverpool. The statue depicts a very sad Elinor Rigby, sitting on a bench. www.ipernity.com/doc/rgreyson/39307162/in/album/812788
5 weeks ago

Deborah Lundbech said:

I remember reading about that sculpture several years ago when I looked T.S. up to see what had happened to him. What a cool guy!
Thanks, Rick!
I still love playing that 45 record (which I ended up with) - and which my grandson Wes particularly loves.
One thing I find endlessly funny are the accents, so that you have Tommy Steel singing,
"Once upon a time there was a little white bull " in broad cockney - and all the little BBC children echoing "Little white bull" in upper class accents.
Cracks me up every time - should be used in linguistic/class/ dialect/ presentations.
4 weeks ago
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