2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower Records
Bob Zimmerman
104 episodes
1 month ago
Send us a text Growing up in Seattle, Washington, this week’s guest, Peter Ames Carlin, has a distinct memory of the hubub surrounding the release of The Beatles “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band” even though he was only 4 years old at the time. “I have very vivid memories of “Sgt Pepper” being the new record…and then “The White Album” and puzzling through that stuff when I was very young” Spending most of his life as a writer, for newspapers, People Magazine and co-authoring a few boo...
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Send us a text Growing up in Seattle, Washington, this week’s guest, Peter Ames Carlin, has a distinct memory of the hubub surrounding the release of The Beatles “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band” even though he was only 4 years old at the time. “I have very vivid memories of “Sgt Pepper” being the new record…and then “The White Album” and puzzling through that stuff when I was very young” Spending most of his life as a writer, for newspapers, People Magazine and co-authoring a few boo...
Ep. 91 Pete Pataro (Washington DC, Annapolis MD, Cherry Hill NJ)
2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower Records
1 hour 20 minutes
1 year ago
Ep. 91 Pete Pataro (Washington DC, Annapolis MD, Cherry Hill NJ)
Send us a text “ ‘There’s a place called Tower Records’ and the way that he described it, it was a supermarket of music! It’s got two stories. I was like, wow…I’ve gotta go there!” Not only did Pete Pataro *go* there, he had a 15-year career - starting in that Washington DC store, assistant managing in the brand new Annapolis store, and eventually running Cherry Hill, NJ for 10 years. Along the way, Pete was a sponge, learning about genres, bands, sidemen, and all facets of music, the...
2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower Records
Send us a text Growing up in Seattle, Washington, this week’s guest, Peter Ames Carlin, has a distinct memory of the hubub surrounding the release of The Beatles “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band” even though he was only 4 years old at the time. “I have very vivid memories of “Sgt Pepper” being the new record…and then “The White Album” and puzzling through that stuff when I was very young” Spending most of his life as a writer, for newspapers, People Magazine and co-authoring a few boo...
