![]() ![]() When we didn’t have records, we played cassette tapes (TDK being the favoured brand) of songs that we knew by heart, even if we couldn’t always identify the artist.Įvery track on this album spoke to someone.ġ. We lit fires, poured drinks, and played records. ![]() When there was a shooting, a suicide or an outburst, we just shrugged and dismissed the incident with the phrase, “He must have gone bossies”. The guys were often angry or depressed when they came back, but it wasn’t discussed back then. The Angolan/Bush War was raging, and everybody was missing someone. There was a lot to discuss and a lot to make sense of for young and old alike.īoys (sons, brothers, boyfriends) were away doing their National Service, husbands and fathers were often away having been “called up” for camps. After the first few drinks, the records came out. Older people listened to the radio during the day, and either gave or attended house parties in their leisure time. #ME AND BOBBY MCGEE VIDEO FREE#We would gather at a friend’s house, ideally somewhere that was free of adults, and crank the record player while discussing things that mattered. Teenagers and young adults spent their free time listening to music. Even then there really wasn’t very much to watch other than childrens’ programs and the state-censored news. #ME AND BOBBY MCGEE VIDEO TV#We only got tv in the middle of the 1970s, and my family got their first television set around 1978. We were isolated by international sanctions on one side and government censorship on the other. Music, whether on record or tapes, was very important to South Africans growing up in this era. Me and Bobby McGee sounded familiar, Help Me Make it Through the Night and For the Good Times were well-known, even Elvis recorded them. It seemed like a good present for my Dad because I recognised song titles that he listened to. I now know that this record was a re-release of Kristofferson’s first album titled, Kristofferson, and that Wiki says it was re-released in 1971 using this LP cover because Janis Joplin’s recording of the title track was a commercial success. There was something about the face on the record cover that was captivating, even if it did belong to what I then regarded as an old man. It was bought for my Dad because I knew little or nothing about country music, and it was 1) New and 2) Available for sale in boycotted South Africa. Me and Bobby McGee was the first Kristofferson LP record I ever bought. Me and Bobby McGee: My first Kristofferson LP ![]()
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