DO YOU WANT CRYING
The other album cover that I more or less cleaned up for framing was practically the first record that I picked up out of my front yard from the debris: The artist for this one was Katrina and the Waves (I kid you not); it was the cover from a 12” single, not for their big hit “Walking on Sunshine” but for the follow-up “Do You Want Crying” – and yes, there was quite a bit.
(May 2010)
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One night, I selected two of the albums and took them to the hotel room to see what I could do with them. One was practically the very first album that I picked up in the yard – a 12” single by Katrina and the Waves called “Do You Want Crying” (I never get tired of telling that story either). I washed the mud off the disks, and they didn’t look too bad; but the album covers were a lost cause: Even the handful that could potentially be cleaned up would no longer be usable for storing the albums in after they dried.
(August 2015)
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I have previously told the ironic tale of finding the 12-inch single of the follow-up hit by Katrina and the Waves to “Walking on Sunshine”, called “Do You Want Crying” as practically the first record that I picked up in the yard from the wreckage of our home from Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. “Katrina” would have been enough by itself, but with the band name being the Waves . . .
(March 2016)
