Monday, July 31, 2006

What was the music YOU fell in love to?


I dont know about you, but when I was 12-13 in the early 60's I had a little radio by me bedside. Late at night in my bedroom in S.C. I could get WGN in Chicago! I thought that was pretty awesome. I can remember lying in my bed listening to "Soldier Boy" and "Cupid" and dreaming of the day I would be a "real teen-ager" with a steady boyfriend and lots of parties and dances to go to. The picture here is my family on a ship in the summer of 1961, going from Miami to the Bahamas. Can you see me?

If you were a teen at that time, what was your favorite music?

Are you a Boomer? Do you like music??


Hi everybody! I'm a Baby Boomer, born in 1948, turned 13 at the beginning of the sixties and loved every day of them! I got married in 1971 and continued to love most of the music of the 1970's. Now I am a musicologist and I'm learning so much about how, when people get to the end of their lives, the music that is most meaningful to them is the music of their "courting years." Here's how I looked as a teen: