Dedicated to TAHS class of 1968
We had the music.
My 50th high school reunion is approaching and it’s making me think about music; real rock and roll music that threaded itself in and out of our lives. This was sixties music and I will quote Elton John on this subject:
I never had me a better time and I guess I never will. (from Crocodile Rock)
Of course I’m happy to say that I did have “better times” after the sixties. But for now, if I’ve got to be reminded that it’s 50 years since I graduated from Allderdice High School, that music floats naturally into my consciousness.
Where do I start? In the past, when I went on blogging sprees, I wrote about some of these iconic performers and the songs they sang. So I may be overlapping but I’ll try not to do that.
I loved The Association. I loved their harmonies, their weird images, and of course their quietly passionate lyrics…”Cherish is the word I use to describe/the feeling that I have hiding here for you inside…” I actually loved two different people at the time– when this song was popular– and the song made my head spin, like in The Exorcist. Also Along Comes Mary…my friend Iris and I would flop onto her two single beds, listen to the lyrics again and again and again and try to understand it. We were so innocent; we didn’t know then what that song was really about. Finally Windy; I have a strong emotional attachment to that one. It was playing on the radio of my boyfriend’s mother’s car while we drove, way too fast, to the Pittsburgh airport to see a friend leave for a summer away.
Finally, in the summer of 1998 my teenage son was working in a convenience store and they played sixties music in there all day and night. Michael said to me: Mom, I think I understand now why all these stations play oldies. It’s just that it’s the best music there is.
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