Yep I wanted big band and singing groups from the 40s--my mom's music that I seem to gravitate to--more the close harmonies of the Mills Brothers, McGuire sisters, etc. Those lists are out there, but not included at this site.
This is a wonderful resource that triggers many, many musical memories. Music is a tool to take us back to retrieve those memories. Born in 1950, I know many of the songs…Mona Lisa, Harbour Lights…probably played years after that time. But many were also great tap dancing songs (Music, Music, Music). I read music and played piano for my school years through high school, so I often played 40s, 50s sheet music I found. So many classics! 60s brought the Beatles..we all knew the words..so many others..Angel in the Morning, Those Were the Days, Summer in the City, When a Man Loves a Woman…the Supremes!! Way, way too many wonderful songs, memories and yes…I sing to them when I hear them…50s through the 70s are ALL favorites. Thank You!
I hoped it would find some resonance, and I was right! I have heard from readers several good stories of musical pasts and continued memories. Thanks for sharing.
I started taking piano lessons at an early age and have an acoustic piano which I enjoy playing. I was immersed in classical music and did not pay much attention to popular songs of the day.
I find there is a divide among my buds between those who did and those who did not listen to popular music in their childhood homes. Some of that, I suppose, is parental habits and tastes; then peer influence, and cultural. In all love of music, I think, there is a feeling one gets, a sense felt in music that makes even simple ballads have beauty if one has ears to hear it. Playing it on an instrument is another relationship altogether, and especially for those who read and play music as fluently as they speak or read a paragraph of text.
My very first memory of a song is "Ozzy the Ostrich" off a kids album I owned when I was 4 or 5. I have never been able to Google up any reference to that song, so it's possible I'm imaging its existence. Around the same time I also was a big fan of "Joy to the World" by 3 Dog Night. My dad was stationed in Spain so all my exposure to music was Armed Forces Radio. My dad would set the reel to reel tape machine to record Kacey Kasam's Top 100 on New Year's Eve, then that 8 hour tape would be the background music to life all year.
Sometime around age 10 I acquired Kiss Alive II, and that set me on a very different musical journey that is still influencing my musical tastes today.
BTW - I may or may not be in Floyd on Saturday. We are supposed to be camping at Horseshoe Point Thur-Sun, but my wife is down and out with pneumonia this week. I may come with my son, if she is mostly back to normal by Thursday and okay with a few days of peace and quiet with us gone.
Too bad that the music site does not list 1940 - which would have been the music my mother listened to while I was gestating.
Yep I wanted big band and singing groups from the 40s--my mom's music that I seem to gravitate to--more the close harmonies of the Mills Brothers, McGuire sisters, etc. Those lists are out there, but not included at this site.
This is a wonderful resource that triggers many, many musical memories. Music is a tool to take us back to retrieve those memories. Born in 1950, I know many of the songs…Mona Lisa, Harbour Lights…probably played years after that time. But many were also great tap dancing songs (Music, Music, Music). I read music and played piano for my school years through high school, so I often played 40s, 50s sheet music I found. So many classics! 60s brought the Beatles..we all knew the words..so many others..Angel in the Morning, Those Were the Days, Summer in the City, When a Man Loves a Woman…the Supremes!! Way, way too many wonderful songs, memories and yes…I sing to them when I hear them…50s through the 70s are ALL favorites. Thank You!
I hoped it would find some resonance, and I was right! I have heard from readers several good stories of musical pasts and continued memories. Thanks for sharing.
I started taking piano lessons at an early age and have an acoustic piano which I enjoy playing. I was immersed in classical music and did not pay much attention to popular songs of the day.
I find there is a divide among my buds between those who did and those who did not listen to popular music in their childhood homes. Some of that, I suppose, is parental habits and tastes; then peer influence, and cultural. In all love of music, I think, there is a feeling one gets, a sense felt in music that makes even simple ballads have beauty if one has ears to hear it. Playing it on an instrument is another relationship altogether, and especially for those who read and play music as fluently as they speak or read a paragraph of text.
My very first memory of a song is "Ozzy the Ostrich" off a kids album I owned when I was 4 or 5. I have never been able to Google up any reference to that song, so it's possible I'm imaging its existence. Around the same time I also was a big fan of "Joy to the World" by 3 Dog Night. My dad was stationed in Spain so all my exposure to music was Armed Forces Radio. My dad would set the reel to reel tape machine to record Kacey Kasam's Top 100 on New Year's Eve, then that 8 hour tape would be the background music to life all year.
Sometime around age 10 I acquired Kiss Alive II, and that set me on a very different musical journey that is still influencing my musical tastes today.
BTW - I may or may not be in Floyd on Saturday. We are supposed to be camping at Horseshoe Point Thur-Sun, but my wife is down and out with pneumonia this week. I may come with my son, if she is mostly back to normal by Thursday and okay with a few days of peace and quiet with us gone.