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Every Baby Boomer Alive Has a Core Memory To Go With These 5 Songs From the 1970s (opens the original)
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Nothing can lock in a core memory quite like music. With just one listen, these songs can instantly transport us back to our first real relationship, our first job, our first summer with our own car, and our first big move away from home. These core memories of our younger selves stay with us for decades, and for baby boomers, many of them were formed while listening to 1970s songs like these. Oh, if only we could travel back in time and be a fly on the wall during the first time we sang this to
5 Top Records From 1965 That Never Get Old No Matter How Many Times I Listen (opens the original)
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Too much of anything can quickly turn sour. That’s a lesson I’ve learned the hard way every time I play a song that I love so often that I actually end up hating it. But I’ve never noticed that happening with these records from 1965, no matter how many times I listen. Every so often, a melody that cuts right to the bone will be pulled out of the ether by a lucky songwriter, wooing and baffling the rest of the world in the process. For The Beatles in 1965, that lucky writer was Paul McCartney, wh
4 Hit Songs From 1973 That Will Teleport You to Your Younger Years (opens the original)
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If you’re in the mood for time travel, you need not source flux capacitors and zany sexagenarians named Doc. Listening to music from a certain time in our lives is just as effective at transporting us back to yesteryear as the DeLorean was in Back To The Future. In fact, even if you weren’t around to see these hit songs from 1973 first come out, they have a way of conjuring nostalgic feelings about our former selves, the passing of time, and the way we often romanticize the past into something b
4 Goofy Songs From the 1990s I Can’t Help but Sing Along To (opens the original)
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The 1990s saw the culmination of decades’ worth of whimsy and imagination, all colored by an impending turn of the millennium that had the zeitgeist hyperfixated on sparkly silver futurism. Contrasting the grittier grunge and sun-soaked West Coast rap of the 1990s were goofy songs like these, all of which are at least a little ridiculous but virtually impossible not to sing along to (for me, anyway). I have been a fan of Aqua ever since my sister gifted me Aquarium on CD when I was six (?) years
Beloved Singer Behind the 2008 Beijing Olympics Theme Song Dead at 63 (opens the original)
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Liu Huan, the beloved Chinese baritone who sang the 2008 Beijing Olympics theme song, “You And Me”, has died. The late 2000s opening ceremony was the first time many people, particularly audience members in the States, heard the singer. But in his native China, Huan was a pop pioneer, well-known for songs like “Sun In Heart” and “The One Who Wins The Hearts Of The People Gains The Empire”. Both songs were for television series. In addition to his prolific work as a recording artist, Huan taught
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