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Music of 1962: Top Ten, plus bonus songs [1]
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Date: 2022-11-06
Release your inner beast!
Alright, here we go again!
This time, as I was looking at the top 100 songs of 1962, I marked way more songs than usual. That does not mean I will post every song I marked, but, I felt a need to listen, at least to a few notes of these songs, to see if I liked them enough, to post in the diary. But, as I say each week, please feel free, to look at the list yourself, and post any songs you truly like, in your comment. Here is the link to the list:
www.musicoutfitters.com/…
Okay, here we go:
Number 1:
Oh, yes! That is, truly, one of the finest melodies, in all of pop music. All I had to hear, was ten seconds of it, and I knew it, like an old friend. I just never knew the name of the song. That is why I am doing this series. So glad I found this one, and it makes sense that it’s number one.
Number 2:
This one is similar to Georgia On My Mind. They both have an orchestra back up. Smooth.
Number 3:
Alright, this one take us back a little, to fifties doo wop. But, it’s fun.
Number 4:
This one is a simple love song, and this man sang it, so smoothly, so precisely. It’s a sad song, but, oh well.
Number 5:
Another melody, that is like an old friend, but I had forgotten. Fun, to hear it again.
Number 6:
This video looks like a lip sync session, from an old movie. The feelings come out, in the facial expressions, including the actor and actress observing the band. Truly, a nice, emotional, experience. Better than just hearing it on the radio. This project is adding a richer experience, to these old songs from my memories.
Number 7:
Such a nice, fun, dance song. I truly do not know what actual dance moves constitute the actual Loco-motion, but who cares? I can only do an old man two step, so, that is what I will do. I need to start making my own YouTube videos, of my dance move!
Number 8:
I do not recall ever hearing that song before. Pretty good song, with a strong beat.
Number 9:
I think I had this posted last week, but it was not in the top ten. Truly a classic. Anyone can do the twist, right?
Number 10:
Such a nice, happy, love song.
Unless you actually think about those who enlist in the military, and those they leave behind, and the many things that can go wrong, in that situation.
I like the guitar solo, in the middle, any old way.
Now, time for me to listen to a bunch of other songs, in the top 100, and see which ones I will post here.
Number 11:
See, the very next song, after the top ten, and I had to try it out, and, yes, I like it. The vocal style, reminds me of the best notes sang by Roy Orbison. Nice.
Number 21:
I think I only heard that song once or twice, way back when. I like it. Lively, but smooth, jazz. Nice.
Number 28:
Wow! That song is so very outstanding, I think I remember that my parents liked that one. It just doesn’t get much better than that. Mmmm.
Number 37:
Once again, this melody is an old friend, and this is why I am doing this series, to find old friends, that I had totally forgotten.
I once tried to play piano, a little bit, and I think I might be able to play this simple tune. I just can’t go wrong, listening to this one, over and over.
Number 46:
I grew up with Burl Ives music, at least two or three of his songs. I like his voice.
Number 47:
Every little detail of this song is so well done, the drums, the guitar, the harmonizing vocals. Nice.
Number 53:
Okay, in order to build these diaries, without spending crazy numbers of hours and hours doing so, when I start a song, and I know I will include it, I pause it, about ten seconds in, and copy and paste.
This one? No, I had to let it play, all the way. HMMMMmmm. Green Onions, indeed.
Number 54:
So truly outstanding. Did Ray Charles ever record a crappy song? I don’t think so. And this was truly, one of his very best recordings. At the beginning, it says, music and lyrics by Cindy Walker and Eddy Arnold. But Ray Charles, sang it just right. Working together, worked so well.
Number 65:
I like this one better than, “Crying.”
Number 78:
This song is way too sad for me, but, she sang it so well, I just could not leave it out.
Number 83:
During the sixties, there was a game show, in the afternoons, called, The Match Game. This was the theme song. So, I grew up singing, inside my head, to this tune, “The match game, the match game, the match game, the match game….”
I truly did not know the title of this song. Now I do. Fun, easy listening song, to entertain myself, for the rest of my life.
Number 85:
Okay, this one is truly over the top, for me. Too emotional. I do not know how accurate the details are, in these song lyrics, but, as you know, this story song is based on a true story. My father was also in the U. S. Navy, blowing up German submarines.
And then, after all this, JFK was assassinated, in 1963.
I was in the hospital room, when my father, Don, died, in 2001.
We are also Irish. My father’s mother’s maiden name was Ada Frances Kelly.
Oh well.
Number 98:
This is folk music, rather than rock, but I have always liked it:
www.google.com/…
I got a hammer
And I've got a bell
And I've got a song to sing
All over this land
It's the hammer of justice
It's the bell of freedom
It's the song about love between
My brothers and my sisters
All over this land
Alright, time to post this beast.
Hugs!
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