Can We Talk 2

Old Music

         I have probably covered this before. I love old music. I could listen to Ella Fitzgerald or Bing Crosby all day. I love the smoothness of Judy Garland's voice. Those sentimental old songs--I guess it says a lot about my leaning towards sentiment and emotion. They were all before my time, but I fell for them anyway.

         Before I moved to this town, I listened to an oldies station--not quite old enough for the ones above--but old enough for me to have grown up with them. I loved that station. It took me back to my school days and events I'd long forgotten. Funny, how music sticks in your head that way. A certain song will be associated with after school or your first job after college or a song they played in the cafeteria in eighth grade. I can certainly envision particular places or people, even the placement of speakers, with certain songs. Who knew at the time, they would get lodged in our brains with those details?

         These days, I'm so old that I'm surrounded by people who think music from ten or fifteen years ago qualifies as "oldies". Some of those songs are stuck in my head, too. but I'm less likely to know the artist or album, etc. Any station that will play a different decade every week would make me happy. And occasionally, I want to go way back to Johnny Mathis or Elvis.