Somehow songs of today vanish from my scene and from my head too, with the same speed they arrived. But the old numbers are there for keeps. They linger on.
How can one forget Jim Reeves, Engelbert, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Connie Francis – the list is endless.
I particularly like the Christmas carols sung by most of them.
These songs are now minced, mingled and mixed and they do not have the same flavour of yester years.
The same goes for the accompanying musical instruments. There were just few of them and the songs would stand out but now the songs just get buried with all the cacophony of the countless instruments that are banged at the same time.
I have carefully treasured some original recordings ofcourse in CDs – some I got through free downloads. If you search for the sixties and fifties songs you may get some but these days I notice most are on payment.
Talking about old numbers I also like those picnic medleys as I call them —My Bonny lies over the ocean, Forever and forever, sugar in the morning, she’ll be coming down the mountain, show me the way to go home, Roll out the Barrel………..
My favourite singer is Jim Reeves specially his song ‘Roses are Red’…………….
Songs and perfumes as they say bring back memories. There are certain hymns sung at funerals. I avoid listening to them at other times as I would not want to bring sadness in my life while those happy songs are always welcome. The song ‘You by my side’ takes me to the day I said ‘I do’
Adn what about those nursery rhymes? As long as we have kids in our life we get to hear them now and then but they do take us back to our own kinder garten days. It is only later could I understand what those nursery rhymes meant but as a kid I just liked their rhymes and rhythm.
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I guess we have something in common. I am also a person of the olden days. I love my old time music. What you are saying is actually very true, if you try to compare the music that we listen to nowadays is far for what we used to listen to back in the days. Some of the songs have some ridiculous beats they are either too fast or or the beat is just so confusing you wouldn't know what to make out of it. You have actually taken me back way back when Christmas was all about Jim Reeves and BonnyM. No one could beat this two groups in christmas carols. The songs that are coming out nowadays are a rendition of those songs but they still don't bring out the feel of Christmas. I miss those days, and the only way I can bring it back is take out my cassettes yes cassettes from way back and play some of them. I was amazed the other day when I played an Abba tape and it was playing perfectly on one ofmy favorite old radio. At least the good thing is that we have Utube where we can download and listen to those old ballards.
You can now get CDs of old time music. I have a collection. I also have tapes and a deck.
It is right that old is gold now the song writers have dies and new writers do not have passion to write songs and carol due to money greed and other modern life activities.
Old songs are beautiful and fascinating and charming to ears and a solace for mind and soul.
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