75 Songs im 7 minutes...That Turn 50 Years Old in 2021

Pepper said:
But that's it! When I hear and see them, I don't feel age, or illness, or death. I think of the thrill of being young and my heart becomes young!
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I know, and we get dancing around , even if some of us can only dance in our seats... but I mean, can you actually believe we were a half century younger when these were released..?....it doesn't seem possible.... When our parents said life was short, we should have listened to them!!
 

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Back in the 40's we only had a radio. So there were a couple of soap operas, a lot of music. Saturday morning was for the kids, Red Rider, Hopalong Casady, Lone Ranger, etc.

I grew up listening to the 40's music, that the song had words of meaning & people that had great voices. Not this stuff of today.
 
Tom 86 said:
Back in the 40's we only had a radio. So there were a couple of soap operas, a lot of music. Saturday morning was for the kids, Red Rider, Hopalong Casady, Lone Ranger, etc.

I grew up listening to the 40's music, that the song had words of meaning & people that had great voices. Not this stuff of today.
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There are still meaningful lyrics out there. But two things get in the way of us older folks coming across them:
1) There well over 1,000 (some years over 2,000; 2017 it was 3,436) songs released per year--and that's just regular releases not straight to 'streaming' things like on Spotify.
2) Having exposure to the ones with meaningful lyrics sometimes because they were first done by a band that plays a genre you just don't listen to---for me that's Heavy Metal. It wasn't till Johnny Cash released 'Hurt' that i heard the poignant lyrics written by Nine Inch Nails. Having had my daughter rather late in life (i turned 37 a couple of weeks before she was born.) i had someone in house who knew my tastes and could recommend songs by newer artists.

Also for a lot of decades, while there were certain country artists i did like (Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash), i just didn't listen to most of it. (My eldest sister controlled our bedroom radio and as a kid i got tired of all the mournful and soap opera-ish storylines of 50s country music.) But in the early 2000's, i came across more modern country artists that were writing things that spoke to me. Sometimes it was just one song an artist did that i liked (Tim McGraw's "Live like you were dying." Other times i discovered artists or groups that i liked several of their things: Kenny Chesney has done some very meaningful lyrics (many with nostalgic overtones that transcend specific details); Montgomery Gentry (Some People Change, You Do Your Thing and the fun 'She's Gone') Big and Rich--Between Raisin' Hell and Amazing Grace; Holy Water; 8th of November).
 
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