An Introduction to The Playlist of My Life: A Top Ten Memoir

I remember the day I bought my first records.  My mother took me to the Sears department store at Six Corners in Chicago.  I purchased the Carpenters’ Rainy Days and Mondays and Paul Revere & the Raiders’ Indian Reservation.  After we left

the store, my mother had a gall bladder attack out on the sidewalk.  Since my dad had died of cancer only two years …