Those 70ish Girls

With the right music, you can either remember everything, or forget everything.

The most often played song throughout the world is a song everyone hates. At the risk of making it play on the tracks of your brain all night, I’ll tell you what it is. A Disney tune, It’s a Small World, has been played over 50 million times.

Two sad songs… You’ve lost that loving feeling (The Righteous Brothers), has been played 8 million times, and Yesterday, (The Beatles), 7 million.

Every movie you have ever watched, and advertisement you have ever seen, has a music sound track. We sing Happy Birthday, Christmas songs, Church hymns, and school songs. We dance to the rhythm of music. We’re inspired by patriotic songs, and babies are lulled to sleep with  a lullaby.

We’ve got lots of babies

Music is a big part of all our lives, and it can take you back.

Here are some examples of the tunes I hum.

Good morning Mr. Zip, Zip, Zip, with your haircut just as short as mine…It’s a WWI song that my Dad’s Mother used to sing to him.  He sang it while bouncing me, perched on his shoulders, all around the house. He also sang Be kind to your web footed friends, for a duck could be somebody’s Mother.

All things bright and beautiful, and Jesus loves the little children, take me back to Ethel Thomas’s Sunday school class. She was perpetually cheerful and had a beautiful voice.

But ya know I love you, by Dolly Parton is one attached to a memory. A boyfriend in high school gave me the 45. The flip side was something like Homemade lies. I asked which side he wanted me to listen to, which for some reason, upset him…Its funny to me now, and a good memory.

I consider Hey Jude and I can’t get no satisfaction to be Vietnam era songs, because I heard them a lot during those years.

You’ve lost that loving feeling, The Righteous Brothers, Many a tear has to fall, by the Temptations, and anything by the Four Seasons rank right up there with songs I could listen to and never tire of.

My cousin Valerie and I will be transported back to Cynthia Edward’s kitchen whenever we hear, Oh, What a night. It’s a new memory of a really fun time.

Singing in the kitchen, by Bobby Bare, and Sneaky Snake , by Tom T. Hall were songs we listened to when the kids were all young. Heather especially related to music. I remember she played Johnny Horton’s The Battle of New Orleans over and over.

We laughed at another Bobby Bare song, (from the album Singing in the Kitchen), You can’t help but smile while listening and singing to this one.

Mason Jr. and Ethan…Craig and Olivia (she plays the flute now)

Songs that mean something to you shouldn’t be forgotten. We have created family memories with music.

Kip’s Mom would start New Years Day and play one album a day until she had listened to her whole collection.

I first heard Beyond the sunset at Mrs. Theissen’s funeral, when I was 9. I remembered it as a song of peaceful comfort. We requested that song be sung at our Dad’s funeral, many years later.

I love patriotic songs…If  you haven’t already heard Renee Miller sing The National Anthem, you’re in for an inspiring experience. If this doesn’t play, go to YouTube Renee Miller.

 

There are hundreds of songs from many different genres That take me back.