Old Songs

Well, dear readers, I'm in a reminicent mood today...must be the weather, so bear with me in my mood.

Remember the older songs from the seventies that told stories? How about Bad, bad, Leroy Brown, baddest man in the whole damn town? Badder than old King Kong, and meaner than a junkyard dog. By the end of that song, Bad Leroy Brown looked liked a "jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone" and he learned not to mess with the wife of a jealous man!

Oh, and how about that old tear jerker - "Cat's in the Cradle??" Was that a sad song or what? "When you coming home dad? I don't know when, but we'll get together then, son, you know we'll have a good time then." Then the whole thing turns around on the father at the end when the son doesn't have time for him. Sniff sniff.

Then there were the other tearjerker songs that went along with those sad movies. Remember Brian's Song? "If the hands of time were hands that I could hold,
I’d keep them warm and in my hands, They’d not turn cold! " Believe or not, that was orginally a TV movie starring James Caan and Billy Dee Williams that was so successful that they ended up releasing it in theatres.

How about "Carry on my Wayward son, there'll be peace when you are done....lay your weary head to rest...don't you cry no more." Yeah, Kansas...I'm reaching back to my pre-teen years to the songs you heard on AM radio. Being a woman of a certain age, I do remember these songs playing on the radio, which are now part of 70s complilations on late night TV.

Look, I'm from an era where I remember 8 track tapes!!!!

Continuing on the story line song, how about "the devil went down to Georgia looking for a soul to steal...he was in a bind because he was way behind and he was willing to make a deal" Wow, Satan behind on soul stealing? Must have been the innocent seventies, cuz I bet he could find plenty today! "....but if you lose, the devil gets your sooooooul" What a cool song. Yup, it's in my Ipod, two songs down from Seal and three up from Sean Paul. So you can't say I'm not diversified!

"Ahhhh, look at all at all the lonely people.. Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been......" How sad that no one came to her funeral! "she was buried along with her name....."

Wow, I never took the time to actually look at the variety of songs on my Ipod. Mind you, I don't claim to be up on all the latest music - I think the newest song that I know is "Don't hate on me hata!" By jill scott, but why'd she have to bite the base line from "You're all I need to get by"?? One of Amy Winehouse's songs does the same thing.

This is the last one I'll hit ya with "when are you gonna come down...when are you going to learn...I should have stayed on the farm...I shoulda listened to my old man....you know you can't hold me forever....I didn't sign up for you...I'm not a present for your friends to open....this boy's to young to be singing the bluuuuuuuuuuuuues...So goodbye yellow brick road..." My little ones love that song only because of the ah ah ah part. They sing it top volume in the car. What a strange song though.......This was back in the day where, I, as a little child, knew nothing about gay or homosexual...I mean Libarace was just flamboyant like Elvis!

so good by yellow brick road, where the dogs of society howl, you can't lock me in your penthouse......oh I finally decided my future lies beyond the yellow brick rooooo-oooooo-ad.

Dear readers, thank you for accompanying me down memory lane.

What are some of your fav. 70s songs or story songs?