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So many wonderful memories, tunes and sounds. Brings the past back to life, with the joy, love, sadness, sorrow and the magic of years past. As one song said --- "Thanks for the Memories".
My Mother loved the Beatles...
I have had my music fix for the night and now I will sleep well. Thanks Meerkat.
When I read the thread title, my twisted mind produced this (sorry folks): I'm sure that my age was a single digit the first time I heard "Jimmy Crack Corn (and I don't care)". I liked the tune, and couldn't come close to understanding the lyrics. I knew the words, and understood the phrases, but the message ultimately made no sense. "Crack corn"? Some act by a "bluetail" fly? What?
Sang what I remembered of it for weeks - and ultimately still do occasionally. Liked and still like the melody; same deal as Camptown Races, though those lyrics were in a school book.
[Meerkat, you seem to have 'lived more life' than I have. Probably so, though you were certainly paying more attention than I. Booze is a suppressor and a distraction.
That was pretty cool! 1952 was my year.
So much wonderful music and eh wonderful people that bring it here to share. Again, thanks Meekat.
Anyone remember the 'iconic' recording of Oh Happy Day? A guy and a guitar, seemingly singing to himself. "Oh happy day, all my troubles, all gone away - Oh, oh, oh happy day." Seemed obvious to me that he was expecting to be dead by sundown. And sort of looking forward to it.
Meercat, It had it's run in the '70s, seems like. I had to hear it a couple times to realize that he wasn't really happy. Or maybe I wasn't. Well, I knew I wasn't.
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