My Life through Music - Start at the Beginning

I was born in 1966.

Yes. That makes me middle-aged. I know. I'll never be 23 or 29 again. (My favourite years for some unkmown reason). And I'd love to be 35 again but I don't believe in re-incarnation so there goes that wishful thought...

Be as it may, I Googled the Top 100 songs of 1966 - found here. (Note - maybe the website is wrong, but hey, we'll believe them for today).

The Top 100 include;
Ballad of the Green Beret, Cherish, Monday Monday, You can't hurry Love, California Dreaming, Born Free (My mom's personal favourite around exactly when I was born!!), These Boots are made for Walking, What becomes of the broken hearted, Strangers in the Night, When a Man loves a woman, Paint it Black, Wild Thing, Good Vibrations, You Don't have to say you love me
et al.

I don't have to tell you I know every single one of those songs above, and many many more on the Top 100 list. Well I guess, many of us do. We were brought up 'with the old music' as it were, and anyway "Good music never dies".

My mother was a music fanatic. We're talking good music here, not the semi-noise we hear mainly today. Anyway so she supposedly brought me up to enjy and appreciate 'good music'. Well that includes some classical music but lots of 'Golden Oldies' from the 50's to at least end of the 1980's. After that I sincerely believe most good music somehow got murdered overnight.

Anyway, so I remember most of my life through music. Thus my attempt here to share both my story and my music memories with you.

I believe solidly my mom should have been born 15 years earlier than she had been so that I could have been born at least 10-15 years earlier than I was.

I would have loved to have been a teenager in the late 1950's. Till today I am a big Buddy Holly fan (why? no clue). I cried buckets of tears and tears in the movie La Bamba (story re Richie Valence who died along with the Big Bopper and Buddy Holly in 1959 I think). I have also seen the movie at least 5 times and counting...I was a big Cliff Richard and The Shadows fan when he started in the late 1950's and of Johnny Cash even though he really tried to mess his career up big time...I love the music of the Rolling Stones in the 1960's but The Beatles were OK even though I acknowledge the huge contribution they made to music (I am a Lennon fan though). I think the only big guy I wasn't a freak of a fanatic over was, strangely enough, ELVIS, though I love his late music in the 70's before his death such as Suspicious Minds. My mom adored and was devoted her whole life to Elvis, but I loved the sounds of the 50's and 60's more - all the music from Dirty Dancing is a good example, not to mention Grease and such movies. (I'm not sure I would have liked the Ducktails themselves, but their music was wonderful!!)

Sigh. Unfortunately, I was only born in 1966, only learnt about Vietnam and Flower Power in my early years, but I know, I just know, if I had been a teenager or a young adult I would have had "The Time of my Life".

What music of the 1950's, 1960's are your favourites? (If any)

I post the video here to "Born Free" because this was my mom's favourite song when I was born and because she is nol onger here to share it with me, it'll always remind me of where I started out....







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