Special musical memories ?
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:07 pm
Hi friends,
Care (or dare?) to let us know about a special musical reminiscence ? (General admission)
I'll go for starters ...
This has to do with Donna Summers' disco tune "Bad Girls" ...
Way back at the end of the 70's, I was a very young sole breadwinner with a newborn child.
I found much-needed work in a mattress factory ... the working conditions were medieval.
To give you an idea, I had to get up 3 hours early every weekday just to be able to open my right hand.
That hand was so solicited by the job that it was clamped shut when I woke up the following morning.
I remember one particular summer day going out for my 1/2 hour lunch break on the hot asphalt in front of the factory,
and hearing a totally new disco tune at VERY heavy volume ... it was the disco tune "Bad Girls" by Donna Summer.
The source of that music was just across the street ... the factory where I worked was in an industrial park, bordering on a prison.
Me and my co-workers sat drop-jawed, hastily eating our mustard sandwiches, watching the tanned prison inmates
on the other side of the barbed-wire fence across the street stroll, stretch and wander across the vast expanse of the grassy grounds
while the VERY LOUD music blasted.
So then, munch, munch, munch (I MUNCHED) ... and heard (the BLASTING) "Baaaad Giiirlllls, Uhhh Uhhhh", etc ...
When the factory foreman whistled to order us back into the factory at the end of break ...
I thought "This is just surreal ... they are free, and we go back into the sweatshop".
I remember entertaining the idea that maybe we on the working side of the fence were misguided.
But that's not true, obviously ... I was just a kid (kinda).
And I sure am glad that I stayed on this side of the fence ... because I can change channel when there is disco on !
Just to jog your memory, don't say I didn't warn you ...
Care (or dare?) to let us know about a special musical reminiscence ? (General admission)
I'll go for starters ...
This has to do with Donna Summers' disco tune "Bad Girls" ...
Way back at the end of the 70's, I was a very young sole breadwinner with a newborn child.
I found much-needed work in a mattress factory ... the working conditions were medieval.
To give you an idea, I had to get up 3 hours early every weekday just to be able to open my right hand.
That hand was so solicited by the job that it was clamped shut when I woke up the following morning.
I remember one particular summer day going out for my 1/2 hour lunch break on the hot asphalt in front of the factory,
and hearing a totally new disco tune at VERY heavy volume ... it was the disco tune "Bad Girls" by Donna Summer.
The source of that music was just across the street ... the factory where I worked was in an industrial park, bordering on a prison.
Me and my co-workers sat drop-jawed, hastily eating our mustard sandwiches, watching the tanned prison inmates
on the other side of the barbed-wire fence across the street stroll, stretch and wander across the vast expanse of the grassy grounds
while the VERY LOUD music blasted.
So then, munch, munch, munch (I MUNCHED) ... and heard (the BLASTING) "Baaaad Giiirlllls, Uhhh Uhhhh", etc ...
When the factory foreman whistled to order us back into the factory at the end of break ...
I thought "This is just surreal ... they are free, and we go back into the sweatshop".
I remember entertaining the idea that maybe we on the working side of the fence were misguided.
But that's not true, obviously ... I was just a kid (kinda).
And I sure am glad that I stayed on this side of the fence ... because I can change channel when there is disco on !
Just to jog your memory, don't say I didn't warn you ...