And so another journey down the back alleys of the internet has turned up something quite unexpected—and quite forgotten.
In the mid 1980s, right after I'd gotten my first CD player and replaced my mediocre Sony stereo equipment with some good gear (Yamaha, baby), I stumbled upon the Private Music record label. While their wares were eventually sold everywhere, it was at the audio salon (the venerable Jerry's Audio for my Arizona readers) where I purchased the aforementioned equipment that I initially discovered them, and many of the discs became the soundtrack of my life after my relocation to San Francisco.
I don't remember how I landed on that Wikipedia Page, but even before I'd read through the whole list of their releases, a name popped into my head—along with a song title: Eddie Jobson, Theme of Secrets.
I remembered the name and title, and was surprised when I did a search through my iTunes and came up empty. WTF? Why didn't I have this album in my collection? Was it one of the CDs that was stolen from my apartment in 1990 and never replaced? Did I get rid of it during my purge in 2013 without ripping a copy first? It turns out Secrets wasn't the only Private Music album curiously absent from my collection, but it was the one that proved the most difficult to find again.
When I did finally track it down and heard those notes playing, a tear came to my eye. Rediscovering once-loved-and-forgotten music really is like running into an old friend whom you haven't seen in years.