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It all started one night, when I was up late
watching infomercials on TV. There was an infomercial about a CD
set of hit songs from the 70s. At first I thought, "70s music?
yuck", but after listening to some of the songs they had on
there, I realized I really liked a lot of that kind of music,
and I didn't have any kind of that music in my collection. So
that began my quest. I decided to download all the hit songs
from the 70s to add to my collection.
Then when I was about half way through the 70s,
I thought, why stop there? So I decided to get all the hit songs
from the 70s to the present day. This would be quite a task, and
would take hours upon hours of work. But I would do this in my
spare time, and it would eventually be complete.
So it began, I found a site that had hit songs
from every year, and used it as a guide. I began collecting
music from 1970 all the way up to 1990. It wasn't until then,
that I realized that some of the songs I remembered listening to
back in the day, were not on my list. The list I had was good,
but there were still a lot of songs missing that I wanted to
have. So I found another website that had hits of every year,
and low and behold, there were all the songs that I really
wanted. So I backtracked, with my new list in hand, and went
back to 1970 and back up to 1990. Since then I've been using
both lists to find songs for my collection.
I started this project back in March of 2004, it
has been about 6 months so far, and the end is in sight. Since I
don't want it to end so quickly, I think that once I get all hit
songs from 1970 to present day, I am going to go back and get
the 60s. I thought about getting the 50s, but sock hop music
isn't my thing. But who knows, I might collect those years after
all.
At the time I wrote this, I have over 4,600
songs now, and when I started I had just over 1,800 songs, so
I've come quite a way.
I have a love for collecting things, and this
has to be the biggest collection I've done so far. When it is
complete, I will have over 40 years of hit songs. Someday I want
to put together a spare computer and turn it into a jukebox with
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