Sing when you're winning

In music stores we would often need a customer to sing a particular song they sought. This was a priceless experience. In the days before the internet, customers had fewer options. There was the massive phonolog book, but you needed to know either the title or the artist to get anywhere. Often the best solution was to sing a bit of it.

Over the years customers sang all types of songs to me, often as I was chocking down a laugh.

Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain.....

aw aw hey you who said that, baby how've you been...

stead of taking just one bite........ That was a hard one...'that's all' Genesis.

I really prided myself on being able to identify even the most random of songs from any era. We would have a very high kill ratio, pretty much only sending the mentally unstable home empty handed. There was no pleasing the guy who would shout Leo Kottke! at us for example.

I kinda miss being serenaded by strangers off the street.