Before I go insane I hold my pillow to my head, And spring up in my bed screaming out the words I dread
When I was young before I had cassettes, the only good way of making a playlist of songs was to stack 45s on the turntable. I would arrange them to play my favorite songs in my favorite order. These posts are about records I had in my stacks.
I got some troubles but they won’t last, I’m gonna lay right down here in the grass, And pretty soon all my troubles will pass
As a record collector, I went out and hunted down a lot of my favorites but obviously came nowhere near getting them all. These are some of the favorites that I didn’t own at the time.
So proud to live, so proud to die
“Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)” was written by John D. Loudermilk and first recorded by Marvin Rainwater in 1959 and released on MGM as “The Pale Faced Indian”, but that release went unnoticed.
