r.i.p.yma - General Tiki

T TikiG Tiki Socialite Riverside, California Joined: Jun 17, 2008 Posts: 1560	T TikiG Posted posted on Fri, Nov 7, 2008 2:45 PM Sad. I prayed last Monday when I found out about her death. Her soul sings on in all of us. Wanna hear what happened (to me) last Saturday afternoon - the day she passed? Kinda cool and freaky at the same time. Read on. I was doing my thrift store rounds in the valley looking for Poly Pop stuff. My last stop provided the best haul of the afternoon. This last stop yielded several aloha & tiki shirts, a wood Maori tiki carving, swag lamp, a book on oceanic art and something very special. I found in a wooden box under the record album table the Yma Sumac "Voice of the Xtabay" album, not the single 12" LP record but the 10" 78 RPM set of several 78s plus the album w/paper record pockets! All in great shape..I was absolutely floored because you just don't see Yma Sumac records everyday! I paid a dollar for the set! Talk about being f'king lucky..if you are lucky enough to score this set and have a decent turntable that plays 78 RPM records you know what I mean when I say the fidelity of a clean 78 record is AWESOME! WOW! Thinking back to last Saturday I now realize I was probably playing her music in my home as she slipped away from our Earthly realm to the Heavenly realm, and just a few miles away in Hollywood. God Bless you Yma for hours of timeless entertainment.

Sad.

I prayed last Monday when I found out about her death.
Her soul sings on in all of us.

Wanna hear what happened (to me) last Saturday afternoon - the day she passed? Kinda cool and freaky at the same time. Read on.

I was doing my thrift store rounds in the valley looking for Poly Pop stuff. My last stop provided the best haul of the afternoon. This last stop yielded several aloha & tiki shirts, a wood Maori tiki carving, swag lamp, a book on oceanic art and something very special. I found in a wooden box under the record album table the Yma Sumac "Voice of the Xtabay" album, not the single 12" LP record but the 10" 78 RPM set of several 78s plus the album w/paper record pockets! All in great shape..I was absolutely floored because you just don't see Yma Sumac records everyday! I paid a dollar for the set! Talk about being f'king lucky..if you are lucky enough to score this set and have a decent turntable that plays 78 RPM records you know what I mean when I say the fidelity of a clean 78 record is AWESOME! WOW!

Thinking back to last Saturday I now realize I was probably playing her music in my home as she slipped away from our Earthly realm to the Heavenly realm, and just a few miles away in Hollywood. God Bless you Yma for hours of timeless entertainment.

Post #417829 by TikiG on Fri, Nov 7, 2008 2:45 PM