My Music Library

During the sixties, I was attending grammar school and listened to AM pop mainly. I saved up my allowance and I bought my first record, Johnny Cash's FOLSOM PRISON BLUES and my second record was Herb Albert & The Tijuana Brass' TASTE OF HONEY. I remember rocking to The Doors and Alice Cooper’s SCHOOL’S OUT. I remember during a Friday school function, some student’s did a dance routine to Smokey Robinson’s “Tears on My Face”. I had a small reel-to-reel tape player my parents had given me and I remember shushing my family at the dinner table so I could record “One Bad Apple” by The Osmonds with a microphone held up to an AM radio. That’s when my obsession with music began.

When the seventies rolled around, the music I listened to started to widen. Fabio, my older cousin already had his own Hi-Fi stereo and he turned me on to, what we know as “Classic Rock” but back then it was just “Rock”. Although some kids called it “Rock n’ Roll”, most of us cool kids referred to “Oldies, 50’s Music” (Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, etc) as “Rock n’ Roll”. We would sit in his bedroom and play The Doors, Pink Floyd and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. My father took the family down to the Jersey shore one weekend and I bought an 8-Track tape of Led Zeppelin that cut one song right in the middle. At the boardwalk, I threw a few hoops over a milk bottle and won David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” album. I stuck it on the back window of my father’s Galaxy 500 to let everyone know there was a cool guy on board. When we got home, the record was completely warped; the record would toss the record needle right of the vinyl.

Another cousin, Fulvio turned me on to Motown, Funk and grittier pop music like Graham Parker’s “Black Lincoln Continental”. We had to put nickels on the stylus, so the record wouldn’t skip as we danced around in his bedroom.

In the summer of ’73, my parents sent my brother Manny and I to the Dominican Republic to stay with relatives for our summer vacation. My cousin, Camillo was a DJ for a small college radio station. His show was an all Beatles show. I thought he was the coolest. He would let me sit in and be his assistant. I learned how to make selections, play commercials, make dedications, handle phone calls and how to end the show leaving his listeners wanting more.

During the mid-seventies, I listened to “Hard Rock” (now lumped together with Classic Rock) like Black Sabbath, Kiss and Queen. I even had a mock radio station with another cousin, John. We would interview fake rock stars like Johnny Doe and The Eight Tracks. We started making mixtapes for each other and friends. My taste in music kept expanding from Classical to early Punk and New Wave, from ethnic to folk rock, from Broadway musicals to experimental. However, I didn’t like Country or Disco. Then I discovered girls. For my Senior Prom, I only danced when they would play a slow rock song (typical). Christine, my date didn’t appreciate my grinding on her leg. That summer, I knew I had to learn how to dance. Bear Mountain had Square Dancing at the skating rink during the week and Disco in the ballroom during the weekend. My best friends, Chris and Doug would take me every week. We would go to Maximus and the Peasant’s Pot in New City to dance and drink.

As the late seventies faded into the eighties, I wore shirts with tiny sleeves and my collar turned up and we danced to New Wave (Devo, Depeche Mode, New Order, etc.) and Electrofunk (Cameo, Prince, Michael Jackson, etc). My friends would ask me to bring my stereo and my records over, for every party. My record collection kept growing and growing. Soon an entire wall was dedicated to my music. From reggae to swing, from jazz to salsa, from soul to disco. I had records from Marching Bands and the songs of the humpback whale. I had comedy albums and Bicentennial commemorative albums. With my best friend Bill, we started Wildcat Entertainment and started performing at weddings and company parties. Many weekends were filled with sounds of Kool & the Gang’s “Celebration”, Animal House’s “Shout” and Wang Chung “Everybody Have Fun Tonight”.

I moved to Miami as Reagan trickled down our economy. I rediscovered Latin music and discovered Rap (now it’s called Old School - Whodini, Kool Moe Dee, Beastie Boys, etc). I ended up working in a record store on US1, where we would play all the newest records including Heavy Metal, R&B, Pop, Dance and lots of New Wave. It was a great time, but it was sad to watch the record store be transformed into a CD store. I deejayed for a couple of small nightclubs but Miami wasn’t as lucrative as I expected it to be.

I came back to New York and went right back to weddings and corporate parties. The eighties were in full swing and we played all the latest hits, Freestyle, Disco, 80’s Hair Rock and more New Wave. And we danced.

The eighties blended into the nineties and I landed a steady night club position and I never returned to the corporate world. Disco evolved to House music, New Wave became Techno. Even the Pop Dance music had more energy; remember dancing to C&C Music Factory, Dee-Lite, Black Box and Soul II Soul? The club had a varied clientele and I had to current on all the latest music; from Modern Rock (remember grunge?) to Deep House, from Classic Rock to Lite Rock, from Lite Jazz to Top 40. I joined Bill Rickett’s Record Pool to keep up with all the newest Hip Hop, Dance and Latin Music. I love it when a guest requests a brand new song and I have it.

I bounced around for a while at different clubs before landing my current club. When the new millennium arrived I began to convert all my music to the mp3 format. I said goodbye to all my CDs, records, minidiscs and reel to reel tapes. There’s more gray on my head but I still love what I do. At weddings, I play all the wedding favorites like Disco, Jazz, Swing, Classical, New Wave, Top 40 and Country; make people smile, laugh and dance. At my club dates, I play all the newest Modern Rock, Trance Music, House Music, Rap, R&B and Hip Hop. There is no better life than a DJ’s life.

On the next few pages, I have listed all the songs I have converted to mp3. This is not a music download site; it is just lists of music for your review. Go ahead take a walk through my library.

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 This is just part of the ever growing library of an avid interesting music collector. If there is something you didn't see here and you think should be added, please shoot me an Email



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