Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again -
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:
1) According to Wikipedia, today is World Music Day! How should we celebrate?
2) How has music affected your life? What is your favorite music type? What are your favorite songs?
3) Share your World Music Day efforts in your own blog post or in a Facebook, SubStack, BlueSky or other social media post. Leave a link to your post on this blog post to help us find your post.
[Thank you to Janice Sellers for suggesting this challenge to me]
Here's mine:
Music was a big part of my younfer life, and not so much the last 60 years, except when I think about it and play songs from the 1950s and 1960s using YouTube.
I love the 1950s and 1960s rock and roll songs, some country and western, some rhythm and blues, but I'm bored by classical music. I like fun songs, story-telling songs, and sentimental songs.
Here are some of my favorite songs:
1) My all-time favorite song is:
2) I put this list of five songs for each year from 1955 to 1967 in my blog several years ago and in my StoryWorth and MyStories books (in case my descendants wanted to know what music I liked):
1955:- Earth Angel - Penguins
- Maybelline - Chuck Berry
- Only You - Platters
- Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley and Comets
- Mr. Sandman - The Chordettes
- In the Still of the Night - Five Satins
- Why Do Fools Fall in Love - Frankie Lymon and Teenagers
- Young Love - Sonny James
- Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
- Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
- Come Go With Me - Dell Vikings
- At the Hop - Danny and Juniors
- All Shook Up - Elvis Presley
- Chances Are - Johnny Mathis
- Oh Boy - Buddy Holly and Crickets
- All I have to Do Is Dream - Everly Brothers
- Do You Wanna Dance - Bobby Freeman
- Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
- Chantilly Lace - the Big Bopper
- It’s Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty
- 16 Candles - Crests
- I Only Have Eyes for You - Flamingos
- Misty - Johnny Mathis
- Love Potion #9 - Clovers
- Since I Don’t Have You - The Skyliners
- It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
- Wild One - Bobby Rydell
- El Paso - Marty Robbins
- Teen Angel - Mark Dinning
- Tell Laura I Love Her - Ray Peterson
- I Love How You Love Me - Paris Sisters
- Runaway - Del Shannon
- This Is Dedicated to the One I Love - The Shirelles
- Blue Moon - The Marcels
- Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - The Shirelles
- Do You Love Me? — Contours
- Breaking Up Is Hard to Do - Neil Sedaka
- Sherry - Four Seasons
- The Lion Sleeps Tonight – Tokens
- Palisades Park - Freddie Cannon
- Heat Wave - Martha and the Vandellas
- Surf City - Jan and Dean
- Surfin’ USA - The Beach Boys
- If You Wanna Be Happy - Jimmy Soul
- Rhythm of the Rain - The Cascades
- She Loves You - The Beatles
- Glad All Over - Dave Clark Five
- Come a Little Bit Closer - Jay and the Americans
- Where Did Our Love Go? - The Supremes
- Dawn (Go Away) - The Four Seasons
- I Can’t Get No Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
- You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling - Righteous Brothers
- King of the Road - Roger Miller
- I’m Henry the Eighth I Am - Herman’s Hermits
- California Girls - The Beach Boys
- California Dreamin - The Mamas and the Papas
- Barbara Ann - The Beach Boys
- When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
- Summer in the City - The Lovin Spoonful
- You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield
- Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You - Frankie Valli
- Light My Fire - The Doors
- Ode to Billy Joe - Bobbi Gentry
- All You Need is Love - The Beatles
- San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie
3) One song that Linda and I loved to sing in our Marriage Encounter group meetings in the 1980s and 1990s) was:
- I'll Never Find Another You, The Seekers (from 1964)
4) And then there are the songs I'm working on with artificial intelligence about my own life and the lives of my ancestors. They are all on my Randy's AI and Genealogy web page. It was just one year ago I started doing them, and now there are over 50 songs!
Here is the one about "Randy's Roots:"
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7 comments:
Randy, you have excellent taste in music! I like all of the many songs you've listed. The 1950s and 1960s era is definitely the Golden Age of Rock and Roll.
Thanks for the memories, Randy. Just reading your list of songs took me back to my childhood and teen years.
Of your list, I didn't start paying attention until 1965 and you have some great songs there.
Here's mine: https://mytrailsintothepast.blogspot.com/2025/06/sngf-celebrate-world-music-day.html
Randy, between the movies, TV, and YouTube videos I know most of the songs on your list! Here's my list. https://geneajournalsbyapearl.wordpress.com/2025/06/21/sngf-celebrate-world-music-day/
I have a lot to say about my experiences with music. :)
Here is my list: https://emptybranchesonthefamilytree.com/2025/06/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-351/
Apparently the link to my blog post was not posted. It's at http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2025/06/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-celebrate.html
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