A Random Thought In Music

[Bobbisox1]

Backin the day , usually 50s & 60s, songs were about drowning, motorbike accidents,air plane crashes, then the 70s was women who left theirs husbands to struggle alone,like Kenny Rogers singing about Ruby and Lucille , there was OC Smith who sang about his Ma ‘being on the game ‘
Random thoughts indeed:0))))

[Milo2]

Yesterday we were watching the channel that plays 60s music and said the same as you about the songs.

[Bobbisox1]

Yes Milo,I’m thinking of songs like Terry by Twinkle, the Shangri - la’s , the Everleys Ebony Eyes, and someone who walked into the ‘deep’ for an Endless sleep , :0/

[Pete65]

One that comes to my mind is "I Never Will Marry" by Johnny Cash and Linda Ronstadt.
Two fine performers, but what a sad song!

[Bobbisox1]

Can’t say I’ve heard that one Pete

[Tuvok]

Maybe a sign of the times:

Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens, Ottis Redding, Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves - plane crash

Eddie Cochran, James Dean - car crash

to name but a few.

[Tilly2]

Drug induced deaths?

[Buenchico]

You seem to be a fan of country music, Bobbi! It's almost entirely that genre that embraces forms of tragedy to provide entertainment.

Covid produced some classic tracks too ;-)

[andy-hughes]

It's true, there was a fashion for 'death' songs in the sixties, and country music has always had its maudlin side, but that's how music works, it goes through phases and fashions, and long may it be so.

[Bobbisox1]

On the contrary Chris, I’m not a fan of country music, I accept they tell a story , I do like like Kenny Rogers though :0)

[Barsel]

Chris, I'm waiting on the Medicine Man after listening to that!
As if the words aren't bad enough, the music itself is dire.
Give me a bit of that Rock n Roll music.

[Hopkirk]

Kenny Roger's Lucille.

Was that the one where she left her husband with four hundred children and a crap in the field?

[Patsy33]

Exactly, Hoppy!
:-))

[Barsel]

Hoppy, No. It was the one where she was running for a bus to go for a job interview and the heel fell off her shoe and she said,
'You picked a fine time to leave me loose heel.'

[Moorea7]

Lucille - Loose heel - brilliant!

[1ozzy]

It's actually a song about a car.

[mushroom25]

the death record to beat them all is probably this one......