Oldies Music is a Musical Window to our Memories

 

A brief history of entertainers and the way they changed music


I was born in 1960 and oldies music was a big part of my growing up. I can remember watching my mom and dad dancing in our den to the sounds of "Mac the Knife"by Bobby  Darin and "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets, not realizing that these were songs and sounds that  would  be  known  as oldies but goodies. The visual I have of 45 records being stacked on a record player and dropping one by one and playing the music that would forever make memories in my mind. I can’t hear oldies songs like "Yakkity Yak" by The Coasters without thinking of all the dishes I washed and the papers I took out before I could go out on a date.

 
Oldies music made memories for thousands of teenagers when they got their first kiss listening to Paul Anka sing "Puppy Love" or Sam Cooke’s "You Send Me". Oldies music brings back a time and a place in our hearts and minds that only we can go to. With lots of joy and happiness of the first kiss or first date or sometimes the last date as told by Floyd Cramer in his title song "Last Date". Even back in the day we could say I listen to oldies and we were cool.

Oldies music made us fall in love with a painting of "Mona Lisa" byNat King Cole and a beautiful woman named "Venus" by Frankie Avalon.

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We carried our 45 records around in special made carriers of all
different designs as to not get a scratch on our most precious possessions.
We shared our oldies music and made memories with our friends in good
times and in bad. We laughed at the comical music like "Witch Doctor" by
David Seville and cried at the sad with Brenda Lee and "I’m Sorry".We sang along even if we weren’t sure of the words and we didn’t care how
loud we were. Oldies music was our life and we didn’t know it was “oldies.”

Oldies music taught most of America how to dance. We learned to "Twist" with Chubby Checker, we learned how to "Hand Jive" with Johnny Otis. Don’t forget about "The Locomotion" with Little Eva the list can go on and on but the point is without the oldies most of us would be flat footed and dance like Fonzie.

 
Anytime any of use hears oldies music as it will forever be called now we will always take a trip back in time and relive our special memories. Where we were, what we were doing and who we were with. Only the music of that era can be that strong and that moving can deserve the title of “Oldies Music”

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