I find often if I'm in my truck where I have XM satellite that Listening to a live feed of CNN on XM Satellite Radio or other news stations just gets too much. So, if I'm traveling north to Shasta or Portland or South to Santa Barbara or further south to San Diego that often I will listen to 50s hits because they are mostly silly love songs and mostly sort of inane. Popular songs often became "message songs" during the Viet Nam war but now that war is over and so some "Message songs" are painful to hear to me now, (unless I'm watching a Viet Nam War movie or something). I think "Forrest Gump" might be the movie that brings the most people who lived through that mess together the most here in the U.S.
Here are some other songs I liked from that era too. I was 12 in 1960 so the 50s I was under 12 mostly. But, I still had a little Transistor radio hand held with an earphone if people didn't want to hear rock n roll from then in the 1950s KRLA and KFWB in Los Angeles that were the most known rock stations at that time in Los Angeles. These are all on the same page that I listened to and was familiar with then in that era.
I remember the arguments I used to have with my father. He called Rock n Roll "Jungle Bunny Music" and would yell at me if I wanted to listen to rock and roll starting when I was 6 or 8 years old. My parents were very conservative in their thinking and both ministers of a mystical Christian Church in Los Angeles on Hope Street then.
But, my experience was rock and roll and popular music in general helped me even want to stay alive in what I considered to be the incredibly boring 1950s when I was under 12 years old.
Ricky Nelson was one of the sons on "Ozzie and Harriet" a very popular family show on TV then pretty much before Cable became a big thing around the country. Then our signals were all by aerials on our roofs or rabbit ears on top of our TVs. And the signals in Los Angeles County all came from Mt. Wilson which is at around 6000 feet in the Angeles national Forest then and now. Ricky eventually became a professional singer and musician and dying flying in a small plane to his next concert leaving his wife and kids to fend for themselves.
by the 1960s
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