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Good Morning Friends,
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today is Sunday May 17, 2009
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Here is the song of the day for you. It is by Bobby Vee and it was produced in 1961. You know, in a way, this song kind of characterizes my life sometimes too. If you read all of my blog you will get the connection of course. Now, something to think about is this: The sixties were happier times than now, or so it would seem to me anyway. Love songs were love songs and many of them had very unhappy content indeed. But, they were still love songs and people enjoyed listening to them for their simple ability to make one happy by doing so.
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This particular song is about a guy who is hooked on a girl and she seems to be controlling him. Now, if you think about that this kind of relationship it is not a very healthy one at all. But, the young boy is hooked on the girl and he most likely cannot do anything about it, except live with his situation. So, I guess the song really is just about power and its effects. And, in today's context, where things seem much more serious sometimes, well, this kind of song could relate to numerous other features occurring in our society right now, on top of the control feature I mean. Like, for example, back in the sixties we do not talk about wife battering or the negative effects of one-sided or other unhealthy aspects of relationships. Remember, the sixties was a more simple time, if I can use that term. The Vietnam War had not produced its effects yet, for example and we were only beginning to enter a new phase of womens' rights and that kind of thing. There were no Beatles until 1963 and there was not a serious drug problem like we have now. The seemingly endless play of family and marriage breakdown was not a dominant theme as it is now. There still was a nuclear family and the multitude of different kinds of personal and sexual relationships did not take centre stage. Things were kept simple and happy and the themes were different. A boy falls in love with a girl and that is basically the story; there is no more serious detail and discussion and no violence associated with the event. That is the kind of criticism that we engage in now. We have a different perspective and a different history.
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Well, now I hope I have not ruined your day. And, if I have, just listen to the song of the day. The content may be sad and potentially ominous, but that is not the message one gets from a sixties love song. That was not their job to make you a social critic, but merely to allow you to enjoy or appreciate one side of the love equation. Think sixties and think love - you will never go wrong if you do that.
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Bobby Vee - Rubber Ball -1961
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