General Discussion & Chat: The music cassette collection.., 1 by Dinu

Dinu wrote:
Music is another of my favourite pastimes. I cannot sing, but I have a flair to listen to good music. It limits to our local Classical style of music, but mostly songs from Hindi and Kannada movies - labeled as evergreen. They belonged to the era before around 1980. Songs of those days had meaningful lyrics and pleasant tunes sung by famous singers. Those songs have no death whereas songs produced in recent times die a quick death as it has no stuff in it. So I have taken plenty of pains to choose the songs I wanted and then got them taped (there was a known person who did it for a price from his collection). That became my collection and I prize it very much - and also I have used good quality tapes like Sony, TDK, Maxell because I want it to last long. There was another colleague of mine that had the same interest and we got them done (some of the tapes) together. Somehow, I did not develop a fancy for western music from the early days, though there was a great craze for BoneyM, etc. selling aplenty here in Mysore in that era. Probably because here in my house, my aunt was a classical music teacher with the string instrument called Veena, this fancy did not take off. My cricket friends used to listen and even murmur the hits from BoneyM, ABBA, etc.