Alan Freed, a DJ from Cleveland, coined the phrase … Rock ‘n Roll. And it is in his honor the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame is located in Cleveland, Ohio.
Alan Freed at The Brooklyn Paramount
Take a trip back to those “wonder years” … to the first teenagers … to bobby socks and saddle shoes and wide skirts and pony tails … to when music was fun and color blind.
BLUE MOON, The Marcels
YOU BELONG TO ME, The Duprees
UNDER THE BOARDWALK, The Drifters
WHISPERING BELLS, The Dell Vikings
fOISinTheCity 
Unchained melody!
I grew up outside Detroit, so that music is imprinted in my brain (whether I want it to be, or not.) The Supremes were Goddesses.
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This gal was Brooklyn all the way and the Detroit scene was the bomb to us … although I go back to Muddy Waters and stuff like Bo Diddley 🙂
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I love this list of songs! Reminds me of the movie, Grease, which remains one of my favorites. My favorite on here is Under the Boardwalk…such a toe-tapping tune!
Christi Corbett
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Yes Christi, Grease is how my kids became acquainted with this music as well … and baby … this kid LIVED under the boardwalk 🙂
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Moonlight River haunted me for years as a young girl. And I’d add a book my mother would have been horrified had she known I read it at the age I did.Sloan Wilson’s, Summer Place and Peyton Place by Grace Metalious.
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Yeah, yeah Casey … gotta love what our parents once considered tainted fiction … bad girl … we used to hide Lady Caderly’s Lover behind our history text books and passed it among five girls. I debated using the theme from A Summer Place … oh please … Troy Donahue 🙂
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What I remember of that movie and it still thrills me is the opening scene of the sailboat nearing the island and Richard Eagan at the helm, legs spread apart in those white shorts. Oh, my heart still flutters…
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I went to a party and fell in love with Chicago-Color my World and 25 or 6 to 4. Wow. Still listen to their music today. I just finished reading a hilarious book-Crazy Little Thing.
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Darn it all, Vicki … Color My World the shortest and sweetest song ever !!! Thanks and thanks for the reading material 🙂
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My book pick is The Wishing Hill by Holly Robinson . . . just finished reading it for book club and enjoyed it 🙂
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Good selection for our summer reading, Jamie. How’s the new teaching gig going ?? Kids are lucky to have such a dedicated woman as their teacher 🙂
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I remember these songs but only vaguely. My sister Susan would love this, I bet. I’m have to forward this blog to her.
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Ah Patti … did I go back too far for your generation?? I know you could be Gen-X or between. Give me some of your music one of these days 🙂
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The fabulous thing about Oldies, IMHO, is that, but definition of being Oldies, most everyone has heard them. Love Under The Boardwalk. Don’t think that one will ever truly get ‘old’.
Add to the list, Down On The Corner by CCR.
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Yeah, or Proud Mary … CCR was one of the best of the sixties … my rebel years 🙂 Thanks, Sherry !!
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Wow! I didn’t know that someone specific came up with that phrase! You learn something new every day don’t they say? 😉
Xx
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Yes, they do, Vikki. Glad to see you and glad I could tell you something important about the music of my generation 🙂
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I’m not sure how I missed this posting – I do believe I have too much going on.
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