[expat_panama]

Whoa, great minds think alike!

This morning I'd been thinking about how so many pop songs in the '50's were all about falling in love and getting married --and how somewhere that theme got set aside, then ridiculed as 'old-fashioned', and somehow now we've gotten to the point where celebrating marriage and raising a family is a crime against minority "lifestyles".

Maybe the '50's didn't "go" anywhere because they embraced reality and it's the pop fads that will be doing the coming and going...

[Chgogal]

The music was much more romantic then. Things changed between the years 1971 and 1975. I when I graduated grammar school no one was divorced. My sister graduated 4 years later and half the class had divorced parents. So sad.

[Fiji Hill]

Popular songs of the 1950's often had Christian themes or overtones, such as the following:

• I Believe Jane Froman (1953)

• Crying in the Chapel--June Valli (1953)

• This Old House--Rosemary Clooney (1954)

• The Bible Tells Me So--Nick Noble (1955)

• He--The McGuire Sisters (1955)

• A Wonderful Time Up There--Pat Boone (1958)

[morphing libertarian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zQ_xCX6TA4