I'll Be Seeing You in All the Old Familiar Places ...
I've been listening to a lot of music (I love the old standards much of the time) and my head is filled with song titles and words. This is Ken's favorite and it feels a bit like a love letter sent home, as in, "I'll see you in my Dreams"...
What's your favorite "old" tune? Are you an "old soul", though, perhaps, younger than me? What moved you through the years? What would you request if you sat listening to someone play the piano? Having written that, I'm thinking of that scene in "Midnight in Paris" when someone steps up to the piano and asks Cole Porter to play a song.
I've got a lot of time on my hands for the present, time to think, remember and wax poetic...
What a coincidence! "I'll be Seeing You" is my #1 top 10 favorite oldie song. #2 is Glenn Miller's "String of Pearls" followed by a whole bunch of Sinatra favorites. My #1 favorite of songs after 1960 is "Both Sides Now" (Clouds). I love what you've done here, Louse & it's a fav!!
Love your processing. I'm not sure that I have an all out favourite song. It would depend on my mood and what I was doing as to what tune I would like hear. So anything from classical to rock would be on the playlist.
@cimes1 How absolutely wonderful to share this moment with you Carole! "String of Pearls" is marvelous, too...used to love to dance to that! Me...after 1960...well, "Try to Remember" (from the Fantastiks) comes right to mind...
@salza I agree that it depends on the mood! Music can certainly change the mood... And yes, I love the span of many many types of music. Thanks for sharing!
A beautiful and lovely old pic. postcard. Great processing
To you question. When I was young my Dad mostly listen to classic music .so we did to. Than R+R started, with all those great artist my Dad hated . I did love Budy Holly the best that time. Same age, same problems and a sad ending. I still like to listen to it sometimes. for old sentiments reasons. ( I got nearly all his records). When I`m in a sentimental mood I also listen to Leonard Cohen as I love his poems But I got back to my roots and love popular classic the most now .
Like, @cimes1, Glenn Miller is a favorite. I used to have "In the Mood' as my ringtone and it always made people smile when it rang. When I was little, I'd listen to my parents 78 records, especially "Side by Side". A favorite oldie now has to do with my dad. He gave us cassettes of Conway Twitty's, " That's my job". It was appropriate that I should play it at his funeral. I like a lot of old hymns, too.
This is lovely! Reminds me of a book I recently read - Paris Letters by Janice McLeod. I listen almost exclusively to classical music, so you could say it's "all oldies, all the time"! ;-)
@pyrrhula How musically alike our childhoods were! Yes, classical music via 78 rpm records, and opera from the Met on weekends! My mother was horrified when I discovered rock 'n' roll. Ricky Nelson was "IT" for me, but I loved listening to all r'n'r music! I, too, remember the day, hearing the news on the radio that Buddy Holly & the others died in a plane crash. I never plan on it, but I do get sentimental listening to music! I love classical music and play it when I'm trying to concentrate on other things. If music has words, that's all I can think of! (I can't play music while writing comments, for instance!)
@snowy@kerristephens@jack4john Thank you all for sharing your thoughts. For me, music often starts conversations when we sit and enjoy it with friends!
@danette You got me with "Side by Side"! I often sing that when riding in the car with Ken. I learned it when listening to it by Pat Boone! I was in 6th grade when I spent my first money on 78's at the drugstore! Does anyone remember "Butterfly", "Mary Ann" or "Lucky Lips"? How lovely that you could play a favorite at your Dad's funeral. And, amidst the songs I'd downloaded to listen to this morning was also a favorite, "There is no Secret, What God Can Do" and "Let the Son Shine In"...I guess I'm in to diversity!
@timandelke Thanks Elke...and tell me, was the book wonderful? Always on the lookout for a good summer read! As I just said to Ferry, I turn to classical if I need to concentrate on something else but want music in the background. It also perfect for dinner gatherings when too many background words interrupt the conversation!
When you talk about the old songs, there is one that always comes to mind that I remember my Grandparents playing. It talks about all the things I enjoy in life such as nature, the colors around us, people and friends, relationships, etc. The song by Louis Armstrong, A Wonderful World.
@allie912 I like that unrequited love part... Beautifully handwritten old envelopes are a bit of a mystery themselves and we often don't know what messages they contained...
@chard Did you use to jitterbug? Ken and I actually took some dance lessons to learn the fast dances, though it was more about me wanting him to be able to dance with me as I always had! (Ha...what a funny memory that just conjured! HE agreed to take dance lessons with ME if I would sign up with HIM to learn to use a computer!!! Our 44 y-o daughter was just entering hs! We KNOW how well I did at least!) Now I'm with your parents! I play that version of Paper Doll often and it's beyond wonderful! I've downloaded a lot of their music ♥
@digitalrn A magnificent choice, Rick...I'm touched by the words everytime I hear them... I don't know when that was written...I first heard it done by Louis...and he was so well loved, singers have tried to imitate his version-and-voice ever since!
@aglennc The mid-June departure went in the trash the night I fell :( I rest a lot, am managing the pain with meds and PT. We are targeting July 1, and I think if I can just walk, I can baby the back awhile longer. Neighbors brought over dinner and joined us at the table tonight, so it's wonderful to have company. I know you're feeling happy about getting out on the road again! I look forward to sharing summer adventures with you!
Love this too. Love also reading all the comments and thinking about the songs that have been mentioned. I have no all time favourites, but country western songs (Jim Reeves, Slim Whitman, Charley Pride, Johnny Cash ...) somehow mean a lot to me as I remember my parents listening to them when I was a teenager. Our son now also likes country western. What amazes me is that I still know the words to all of them ... and I guess a favourite that makes me think of my mum most is Jim Reeves 'He'll have to go'. Music is a wonderful thing.
@Weezilou yes, the book was enjoyable - give it a try. For dinner parties, I play smooth jazz - it's a bit livelier, but without words to interfere with conversation. Oddly enough, if I need to get pumped up to do housework, I play broadway show tunes and belt out the words as I work.
I see that you're making the best of thing (what else can you do...) I love way the town in the distance has the colorful roofs and things. Like a half forgotten dream of a wonderful far away place (like being able to walk around the world)
@cimes1 How wonderful that you came back by to add some comments to the others! This has been such fun to see evolve! While I can't remember the 1st 45 I got, they were numbered (with those little stickers that came in the square carrying box for them!) so I could know if I wished to look! And (probably like you) I still have every record, and glad I do...they make old record players again now and I got one! So what that they sound scratchy...by the time I'd listened to them again and again "back in the day", they were scratchy, so that's how I remember them!
@jamibann While I bought 45s by the likes of Marty Robbins & Johnny Cash, I really only came to love country western in later years...so many wonderful songs & great background guitar! Only recently I bought a CD compilation of Jim Reeves songs...and Willie Nelson, too...good stuff!
@timandelke LOVE Broadway music! While living in Tucson, a girlfriend and I drove to San Diego to celebrate my 21st birthday. We decided to sing show tunes all the way! I'd name a show and we'd sing all the songs we could think of...then it was her turn...and off we'd go! We made that 6 hour drive in no time!
@francoise What a beautifully poetic response to the picture that was! For me, it IS now like some half-forgotten dream! Obviously I was loving it as I've posted that same photo 3 different ways (so far!) Oh, Francoise, like you, I'm LOVING the post processing! It sets me right back in all my art classes of yesteryear, remembering things different teachers suggested!
@Weezilou I never play my 45's because I have nothing to play them on, but they are still kept in the same box and "That'll be the Day" has #1 stuck right on the front :-)
@Weezilou How musically alike we are. We have our computers in a special room. Love the silence when I work on it. That news report is on one of my records. from Marty Robbens I still have his Gun figthers albums . @cimes1 I do , Have one and have a spare one. Often late at night I play a record the old fashion way. @cimes1 I to , but not all of it. The best of the railroad man and the Indian songs. @cimes1 That`s a collectors record now
@Weezilou OMG, you really messed yourself up for a long summer in NS. Surely hope you can get away by July 1. So sorry you aren't leaving when planned. Been thinking about you and wondering how you're doing. We'll definitely stay in touch over the summer. We'll both be in Canada -- several provinces from each other, but...... We're still planning 6/25 as our departure date. Take care, and have an awesome summer -- once you get going!!!! Heal quickly!
@timandelke@salza@pyrrhula@danette@allie912@nanderson@chard@digitalrn@aglennc@ethelperry@jamibann@francoise@cimes1 After a nice afternoon having a tapas lunch out on the patio with friends who brought the meal, I came in to find some of you still here. This thread has made me as happy as can be to have been able to share a round-table conversation with all of you about our "youth" and the music that we brought along with us into the present day! It's been such a lovely common thread, and in that I think all of us here know one another in this community, what a delightful way to know more about one another! Thank you for sharing...this may be one of my favorite (favourite!) calendar days! Thanks and a great big ♥!
@chard yep, East Coast Swing and West Coast swing were two of the dances we learned. Ken was here just now and I told him how I recalled the dance & computer classes. He hardly recalled the latter and then said he didn't recall that one was contingent on the other... I remember *a lot* about both those classes! What fun it would be to dance down Main St! GJ is amazing with all the parades & sculpture! "In my spare time" I must try to get there someday!
To you question. When I was young my Dad mostly listen to classic music .so we did to. Than R+R started, with all those great artist my Dad hated . I did love Budy Holly the best that time. Same age, same problems and a sad ending. I still like to listen to it sometimes. for old sentiments reasons. ( I got nearly all his records). When I`m in a sentimental mood I also listen to Leonard Cohen as I love his poems But I got back to my roots and love popular classic the most now .
@cimes1 I do , Have one and have a spare one. Often late at night I play a record the old fashion way. @cimes1 I to , but not all of it. The best of the railroad man and the Indian songs. @cimes1 That`s a collectors record now