DAY 120 - COUNTING DOWN TO THE 50TH

GOOD MORNING, CLASS '64

Springtime - Monet

from
Two Tramps in Mud Time

Robert Frost

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. 

You know how it is with an April day 

When the sun is out and the wind is still, 

You're one month on in the middle of May. 

But if you so much as dare to speak, 

A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, 

A wind comes off a frozen peak, 

And you're two months back in the middle of March.

Road to Spring - Bela Bodo

Music in the fifties and early sixties wasn't all teen tragedy songs and wild rock and roll bands. There were mellow moments and joyful moments, especially of the instrumental kind, that captivated us. 

Maybe there was a sadness in the heart that only music with no words could fill. Or perhaps the music itself could fill your heart to bursting with the exuberant joy of it.

The sound of it swept us along either gently and sweetly or with high spirits. We delighted in the musical gifts of the song writers and the musicians who played their notes. 

Those were good music years, the early Boomer years - a good time to be alive and listening.     

Quiet Village

reached #2 on Billboard's charts in 1959 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Denny 

Martin Denny - 1959 

The Happy Organ

Topped the Billboard Hot 100

also reached #5 on Billboard's R&B chart.

The first pop/rock hit to 

feature the electronic organ

 as lead instrument

The 45 RPM single was the first 

instrumental No. 1 on Billboard 

magazine's Hot 100 chart. 

Dave "Baby" Cortez - 1959

 Green Onions

Peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100

 No. 1 on the soul singles chart, 

for four non consecutive weeks: 

an unusual occurrence in that it fell

 in and out of top spot three times

Ranked No. 183 on Rolling Stone's 

list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. 

Currently ranked as the 

85th greatest song of all time, 

as well as the best song of 1962, 

by Acclaimed Music.

In 1999 the song was given a

 Grammy Hall of Fame Award.

In 2012 it was added to the 

Library of Congress's 

National Recording Registry

 list of "culturally, historically, or 

aesthetically important" 

American sound recordings.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Onions

Booker T. & the M.G.s - 1962

O! how this spring of love resembleth

The uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Spring Walk - Nita Leger Casey