What was I doing on March 25, 1984? I don't know! It was a little more than three months away from my 4th birthday. Watching The Smurfs maybe? Maybe some Sesame Street.

Very good job on the blog, Bill. I enjoyed it.

This could be fun. I take it you don't have to subscribe or anything?

I haven't a clue what I was doing in 1984. Somewhere i nthat range of years was a lot of personal upheaval, moving, life rearranging etc. I had given up teaching and was doing other things. By 1988 I had alit in the Detroit suburbs with a mortage and a couple of dogs, and was off on another phase of existence. Today it's retirement, cats, and here we go again. The one constant is that I always drift back into some kind of fandom, and off and on I'm always writing something or other.

Fun idea,Bill!
1984?Let's see,I was living in upstate NY; in a small cottage on a lake.. with my dog,Keifir and cats,Pookie and Woody(she was named for Woody Allen).
I recall getting a new stereo "rack system" and,being rather retro-techno,was wondering what the heck I was going to do with a cd player!
I later progressed to mini disc and laser disc players(now defunct/passe).I was eventually able to resist obtaining a computer,and after getting my Mac,I resisted having email.
Most recently.....finally broke down and purchased an iPod....love it and now await the next techno advance challenge!

I was two months away from turning 13 then, and about ready to finish my first year in middle school, which sounds about right considering I felt as if I'd only climbed half of Mt. Everest leaving grade school and anxiously awaiting the higher ground of high school. That week was probably either Spring Vacation, the week before it or the week after it, with no major travel plans other than maybe the Oregon Coast. My memory is usually fairly sharp about all the details of my past, though the stress of the time probably makes that week a bit muddy for me. Nevertheless, and outside of experiencing quasi boot camp in middle school for six months up to that point, that time period was a good one in the health and well-being of my family and in other personal events.

Musically, I was already showing my wide diversity by listening to both new and old music on a regular basis. That created some strange stares from my school friends going from Van Halen and Bruce Springsteen to listening to big bands of the 40's, and then a big leap over to classical piano (not surprising since I was deep in piano studies then). I've acquired countless other musical genres in my musical interests in the 25 years since (as I'm sure most of us here have)--hence bringing stares today if you don't have that much musical diversity.

Would Kat have made it as a singer in 1984 had she been 25 then? The only equivalent of the time would be, arguably, Linda Ronstadt who was busy making those Great American Songbook albums with Nelson Riddle around that time. Of course, most of the greatest jazz singers of all time were still alive then, if aging. Hearing Kat have a chance to duet with them would have made 1984 a better bridge musically between the past and the future. Or Kat could have prospered considering those pop power ballads were really in then.

Certainly in 1984, I wouldn't have even imagined being part of a fan community on the internet. I owned a Radio Shack TRS-80 computer then, with nary an imaginative thought of an internet ever being possible on a computer. Other than a very young Whitney Houston, however, we can't say there was really any singer with just the right mixture of talent and likability in 1984 as Kat brought to the world later in a more musically interesting time...

My oldest daughter got married at the young age of twenty two.She was still in college{FSU}finishing up her Masters.She was studying under Janet Reno.I was chasing the bad guys in Manhattan and Brooklyn{NYC}.Struggling in night school and moonlighting as a cab driver.Past the the Lieutenant exam and celebrated with my wife and family at home.Quit moonlighting and was promoted and had another party
No Katharine McPhee but we had Barbara and that was enough for me.One daughter {15} and one son{19}still at home.Both experimented with grass.We hoped it was a curiosity thing and were happy that is what it was.
Only injured twice in 84 and that was my best year in that area.

Wow I had been away from here for a bit and missed this. In March of 1984 I was engaged to my wife of almost 25 years now, we got married in October. I was living alone in a great apartment, finally had some money and most of my hair still lol. I had looked forward to 84 most of my childhood after I read the book to see what part of it would come to pass. Thankfully not much did. Musically I went to see the Dead that year as part of an annual "battery recharge" many of the other dead-heads who may read this will know what that means. Going to those shows was something that just got you happy about life each and every time. My fiance at the time hated them lol so it was me and a few old friends from college each year.

It was a good time in my life and the world was made a better place that year when Kat came into it!

I was a junior in college in MS. Totally enjoying Prince and Madonna and other artists that came to my radio ears about six months late - lol. My dad was sick and would die less than a year later the night before I went to see Prince live - quite the concert if you know the storyline of his movie Purple Rain. My parents had already moved back to Oregon and I was planning to spend the summer in Memphis. Got to see a lot of the Olympics in LA, including the torch on its journey there.

But March 84? Dunno. Maybe spring break but I never went anywhere but home. And I definitely didn't have a heart and mind open and big enough to imagine this major event in CA.

1984 - Wow! 25 years ago lol, how can I remember? Let's see, I was a college student living in the dorm and majoring in Electrical Engineering. It's interesting you mentioned about buying vinyl records (aka LPs) as I remembered clearly that was the year I purchased my first vinyl album. Don't laugh, I'm still buying vinyl records now and much prefer them to CDs in every way. That first album I bought was Amanda McBroom's "Growing Up In Hollywood Town" that I mentioned earlier in the AI8 thread. It was and still is one of my all time favorite with Amanda's well known songs like "The Rose" and "The Portrait". I still remember while everyone in the dorm was blasting on all kinds of disco music, I was listening to "The Rose" LOUD! People thought I was crazy and so out of date, but who cares? That was the year I purchased my first Hi Fi system and yes, a Honda Accord by working two jobs and studying full time lol.

I also remember watching LA Olympics live at the stadium, my first experience with such a big event.

So, those were probably the most significant moments I can recall at this time. Who knows during that same year, a star was born and had touched so many hearts 25 years later!

I was under the impression that compact discs didn't hit the public until 1985...am I mistaken?