Here are some great old popular tunes! Some of you won’t know many of them … some of you, like me, will know all of them. Of course, I heard the 1940’s tunes from my parents’ record collection, or from the big radio in the living room that my brother and I used to sit in front of and listen to of an evening. I have a photo of me and my brother sitting there on the floor, both of us listening and leaning into that large radio, probably around 1952 or so, long before we had a television. The music was so great … and the made-up stories told on the radio back then were super, and scary. We loved that music, and the scary stories too. But hey, let’s stop talking and just listen to some of that really great old music, eh?
The videos below have just snippets of the most popular songs from each decade. If you hear something you want more of, jot down the title and artist and then go find the full original tune online. Enjoy the memories ……..
1940s …
1950s …
1960s … warning, the snippets in the video below are really short, just a very few seconds each. I wish they were longer like the one’s from the 1950s in the video above. I hardly had time to start dancing in my chair before the tune changed! 🙂
Hey, remember the anti-war songs during Vietnam? I do. None of them seem to be in any of these groups. “Eve of Destruction” by Barry McGuire, “Backlash Blues” by Nina Simone, “Give Peace a Chance” by The Beatles, and “What’s Going on?” by Marvin Gaye.
In addition, two significant artists missing in these groups of songs, even though they each had major hits over a number of decades, are Ella Fitzgerald and Anne Murray. I’d bet you know of others who didn’t appear in these videos too. I’m going to go find videos by both of those women and watch them. I hope you go find videos of the artists you remember.
One video I still play once a year or so, when I think about it, is this one …
Harry Belafonte, Bette Midler, Tina Turner, Paul Simon, how many other people do you recognize?
Make a choice. Give, and help.
And … listen to fun music! 🙂 Dance with joy! Spend time with great people. Love your family and your friends, and your childhood and your memories. And be sure to take time to do a little jig or a little shuffle or a little two-step now and then. 🙂 Sweet!