I think there has been a lot on here about music and memories, but the other day we were listening to Alfie Boe singing Old Man River, and beautifully so. This brought memories flooding back for me, it was one of the first records I ever bought sung by Paul Robeson, along with Joan Sutherland's aria from Madam Butterfly. My mum understood the second choice, but not the first, and yet they were, and still are on a par and I still love them. I just love Old Man River, and the other two favourites were 'Just a'wearying for you' and 'I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree'. I can remember walking into the record shop in London(a bit different to the ones of today) with my first weeks wages and spending nearly all of it on two records! Such a treat, and very selfish.
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