Wow....Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I haven't heard some of these songs in over 50 years. I can happily report say that I'm not suffering from Alzheimer's because I remember most these songs and the words. Those songs remind me of happy days when life was less complicated, and gasoline was 15 cents a gallon, and ALL service stations were "full service" gas stations.
I remember when these songs were on the top 40 play list on our local radio stations here in So. Cal. No doubt cities across the country had their own local radio stations that played top 40 music. No matter where you grew up, you heard most of these songs when they were new, and not "oldies".
I particularly love and remembered the doo wop era music. A genre all it's own. I remember seeing Elvis make his debut on The Ed Sullivan Show in Sept of 1956. Not to mention the local dance shows on TV geared towards teenagers. We had those too. Everyone remembers American Bandstand with the ageless Dick Clark.
Bandstand at first was a regional show from Philadelphia in 1952. But it soon became the highest rated local daytime TV show in the nation, and that got the attention of network executives in New York. By August 1957, now called American Bandstand, ABC began broadcasting the show nationwide at 3 p.m. for an hour-and-a-half. If you were a musician, you wanted to appear on "Bandstand", especially after it went nationwide.
And we all remember this guy........ If he doesn't make you laugh, better check your pulse, you may be dead.
