This might be treated as a game, so where to put the thread is debatable, but since music is the main issue, I’ll start in Cafe Society.
Recently my wife and I watched one of those fund-raiser shows on the local PBS station with Nick Clooney and Peter Marshall hosting a variety of Big Band Era Vocalists. There were plenty of promotional CD/DVD offers of tunes from that era and we decided to go to YouTube to find as many as we could. That turned into a few hours of one-thing-leads-to-another tune-hopping and a lot of fun for us.
That gave me the idea to try to condense all the music I have loved over my lifetime to a precious few songs and tunes. Maybe by decade or by ten-year spans of my life, whichever makes more sense.
And that gave me the idea for this thread.
It would be great if you could supply YouTube links to your favorites, but just the names will work, too. And the band/artist you associate with your favorite version of whatever.
I’m going to try to narrow my list down to seven songs from the 70 years I’ve been around.
That sort of thing, yes. But instead of the literal 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, etc., you could opt for ages 0-10, 11-20, 21-30, etc. You decide what’s more meaningful in your own case.
If you’re having as much trouble as I am with my memory for dates and songs, perhaps the pages on either side of Billboard Top 100 Songs of 1962 - Year End Charts might help. You can go backward or forward a year at a time to see what was on the charts at year end, or you can tamper with the URL to jump around as far back as 1946.
1980s: “Beat It,” Michael Jackson
1990s: “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
2000s: “The Real Slim Shady,” Eminem
2010s, of course, belong to Ke$ha. I’ll pick “Tik Tok,” even though it actually came out in late 2009.
