Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Old Songs...The Statler who?

It's funny.  Recently I have been stuck on an old song on my iPod.  I really can't tell you why, but I just enjoy the song.  Maybe it is because it triggers memories of my childhood.  When I was a kid my family listened to country music and I remember The Statler Brothers, The Oak Ridge Boys, Kenny Rogers, and others on the radio.  I also remember not really liking it back then. 

As I say it is funny.  It's funny mainly because I have been stuck listening to "Oh Baby Mine" on my iPod since downloading if a last week.  Why? No idea why I downloaded it.  I mean the song was released in about 1982 I think.  When it was released I was eight years old and had more important things to do like play baseball and avoid getting cooties from some infected girl in homeroom.  But I realized something.  I actually like it now.  The music, not cooties.

I was looking around on the web and came across a video of the Statlers' final concert and heard the song "I'll Go To My Grave Loving You."  That song was released, if memory serves, when I was not even a year old.  But, I remember hearing it on the radio stations years...and years, ago.  It still is a great song and as I listened to it I thought of my wife.  Is it sort of cornball?  Yes.  But hey, I have never been Don Juan or anything.  I'm just a guy who loves his wife and currently expresses it by sending her a link to a song that was released before she was born in a style of music she probably never listened to.  Take a look...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k77FcySsNH4

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