“The wonderful thing about music is that it immediately evokes certain eras of one’s life and brings you back to where you’ve been.”
~Donna de Matteo
With summer vacation beginning for me on May 1, I wanted to make sure I focused on something a little different before I ran out of time.
I am going to spend the rest of this week putting together medleys of the songs that made up the soundtrack of MY teenage life. Today I’ll start with 1964, the year music really became important to me.
I probably could have simply played a dozen Beatle songs from that year and been done with it, but as Paul Simon said in the brilliant ‘A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara’d Into Submission)’, some of you might have thought “I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled till I’m blind.”
So while the Fab Four were my primary focus, there were others I enjoyed that year, and as you can see, most of it came via the British Invasion.
I hope a few of these songs were, at the very least, a minor part of YOUR soundtrack.
Play button is on the left … Volume slider is on the right
Soundtrack To My Life 1964 Medley
Beach Boys – The Who – Searchers – Beatles
Roy Orbison – Kinks – Dave Clark Five – Zombies
Animals – Four Seasons – Gerry & The Pacemakers
RAY ALL I CAN SAY IS WALK ON!! YOU WILL NEVER WALK ALONE!! Great song choices!! No wonder we loved music so much in those days!! It’s been a hard day’s night gotta run!! Have a fab day and keep them oldies a coming!!
Thank you, Fred! We were the lucky ones because we had the BEST music ever made!
Rock The Day!
These 60s medleys are pure gold Ray! We have played last week’s in honor of the garage band countless times. Getting us warmed up for tomorrow evenings’s by “Rain.”
32 Duece Coup was the first LP I remember purchasing purely fo my own enjoyment!
Such good memories of the times.
Thanks Ray
Thanks, Marty and Karen. It’s always nice to know people appreciate what I put together.
I hope the two of you have the time of your life tomorrow night!
By the way, Karen, I love your name. It happens to be my youngest daughter’s name, too. 🙂
Ray, Great songs!!!
I get around, get around because of all my pride I have to get down on my knees and pray. You know I work all day, pretty woman give your smile to me, pretty woman look my way. You really got me going, got so so I don’t know what I’m doing. You say you love me all the time, so glad you are mine. Well no one told me about her, her eyes were clear and bright. There is a house in New Orleans they call the house of the rising sun and a new girl came to town, they called her rag doll and I can’t let her go. Walk on through the rain, you will never walk alone.
Penny, you wrapped them all together and put a pretty bow on it! Nice job! ❤
As always, thanks for the trip back to the good old days with good music 🙂 <3
And as always, Nancy, thanks for taking the trip with me. ❤
Great!
Jane … so glad you enjoyed it! 🙂