I was born at 1:18 in the morning. For my tenth birthday, I had my mom wake me (and my sisters!) to celebrate this momentous milestone. My dad was away on his "one-year unaccompanied tour" in Thailand and had mailed his gift to me. That early morning, I opened it and was delighted to find a tape recorder!! (We didn't have iPods back then, much less streaming music!) I spent hours listening to The Lettermen on my tape recorder!
One day, I came home from school and my mom kept asking all kinds of questions. She seemed to want me to stay in the kitchen to answer. It took a while, but somehow I opened up a cabinet and, what do you know, there was the tape recorder recording along. She was trying to record some household goings-on to send to my dad ;-)