This is a half hour of short snippets of the year’s top pop hits from 1960-1989.
I want to sit and listen and check off how many of these songs I never heard of. I can’t even venture a guess.
I’m confident I will be solid up until around 1980.
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My teen years in the first three minutes. Wow. Actually, it seems that’s how fast each stage of my life takes – three minutes.
Lots of repeats, they are not in order, and this really started in about 1955.
But I loved it.
I believe my older sister had all of those early ones on vinyl. She had a ton of 45’s and albums. Any time I asked her if she had a certain record, she always had it. I surprised her once with the brand new Tapestry album by Carol King. She didn’t have that one yet because it just came out and I was waiting for it because I knew she liked Carol King. She liked the Four Seasons too, but always beat me to the record store when they came out with a new one. So she had some extra copies of those guys.
I counted 115 songs up to 6:58.
Not telling how old I am, Love em all.
annie
FYI, in 1934, it was my father who told F.D.R. to go to Hell. Just sayin’.
I am reminded of why I don’t listen to my collections, vinyl or digital. Music is like a time machine for me and I am right back in those years they were on the radio all the time. This turned into a quick walk through my life. I can usually tell a when a song was popular by remembering the part of life it brings up. Since I moved a lot, I can narrow a time range down to two years, mostly.
Many of them times of great struggle and loss but serious growth from it, so not BAD for me. I also had tremendously good parts – but don’t want the melancholy it could bring. I love my life experiences but have no desire to go back to any former time other than a quick lesson/acknowledgement-refreshing visit – I learned and loved with all my heart. Valuable but – done. Fini. No regrets. Now the memories are tools and guidelines to use.
I can recall all the way back to 2 years old in the crib when I realized I knew what was in the toy box across the room from me and being surprised I knew what was in it when I couldn’t see the items. My first self awareness of having memory.
So for me, old tunes are good for a theme party but not much else. I stopped collecting music some years ago when I realized this. I still have an enormous collection I can tap at any time. Meh.
Side note, WLS was THE big station on the air even in Lake Geneva. Chicago sucks.
WLS AM Dick Biondi and latter Larry Lujack. On a clear night I could listen to them on a tiny crystal radio five hundred miles from Chicago. Back when you could still walk the streets after dark.