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  My Musical Journey – The Lull Before "The British Invasion" I attended Memorial Junior High School in the fall of 1961. In the years 1961 through the end of 1963 much of the pop music was coming from the Brill Building (Don Kirshner) and also from Phil Spector. These were my junior high years. Songs from this time period were dominated by songs about love and boy/girl relationships and they could get pretty sappy. For example: We got songs like “Roses are Red” and “Blue Velvet”, “Soldier Boy”, “Bobby's Girl”, “Sealed With a Kiss”, “I Will Follow Him”, “I Love How You Love Me”, “Where The Boys Are”, and who can forget, even though many of us would like to, “Hey Paula” by Paul and Paula. Yuk! I liked high energy songs and/or something with a bit of an edge. Where were these songs? I n junior high I started making a whole new set of friends. I pretty much stopped hanging out with most of my grade school friends except for both Joe and Jimmy who both lived nea...