"MUSIC GALORE"

The key word here is "neighborhood". Neighbors knew each other and took care of each other. Not just the next door neighbor, but all the way up and down the street and even over a few streets. Everyone knew everything about one another. If you were out of work, or were sick, someone made sure you had something to eat. You see there were no television sets then.

BUT, we had a radio. If we weren't listening to "Fibber McGee's Closet", "Archie Andrews", "The Shadow", "The Lone Ranger", "The life of Riley", and a host of other "soaps", we were listening to music on our radio and singing right along with "The Andrews Sisters", "The DeMarco Sisters", "The Ink Spots", "The Mills Brothers", "The Ames Brothers" (who grew up in our neighborhood). You could listen to the big bands of the era, people knew how to ballroom dance from the age of six on up. There was MUSIC everywhere.

My dad played the harmonica, and both he and my mom both played the ukelali. Now you have to realize that you have to be singing along while you are strumming the "UKE" or it just doesn't make sense. Someone was always singing in my house

I had my first "UKE" at the age of five, and moved up to the accordion a few years later. I played horn in drum and bugle corps for seven years along with playing both the trombone, and trumpet in my high school band. I was doing all of this while I was developing my talent as an accordionist under some of the best teachers on the East Coast.

Although I haven't participated much in the past few years, I am an avid barbershop harmony enthusiast. Apart from my family, that naturally comes first, my life revolves around the sounds of "good" music (the kinds that will live on forever).

When I started building my first Email page about eight weeks ago I was happy to find a lot of music in "Draacs 123". I was in a chat room telling a few people about where they could find music if they wanted it. Someone said "hehehe -- brb", and two minutes later my Email "Pinged". That someone had sent me "TBOOB'S MIDI JUKE BOX"

I had struck gold. Before the night was over I received the "Classical Midi Archive". Two days later someone else sent me "Jack's Shack", (whick unfortunately has closed down) and I was off and running. It wasn't long before I realized that a lot of web pages have midi files or references in them.

Everytime I receive a new web site in my Email, I look first to see its overall theme and content as a possible link to my site, then I look at the links on their pages for midis and rams.

Listed below are some of the best that I have in my favorites. I am probably into 'Tboobs and Jack's Shack once a day and the Classical Midi Archive once a week, if not searching for something in particular, than for nothing else but to play some nice music for my own enjoyment.

I hope you get as much enjoyment out of these as I have.

I am keeping this file (FancyMay's Midi Links) separate from the following as it contains graphic, midi as well as ram links. I think it is definitely worth checking out.

Want to have some fun along the way. Try out this Beatnick Synthesizer, another tool from Web Wizard that I picked up in my travels. It is a lot of fun to play with.

Also, here is a tool that I think is great. It is called the Classical Midi Player. Try it, you will like it.