As time went along, going to the rink each week I realized how much a part of the process the music was. For the all girls only skate, they often played "I Enjoy Being a Girl." I am strictly a female female, and something about talking on the phone for hours with a pound and a half of cream on my face. It is a very cute song from a musical. Then there was the Hokey Pokey that was a lot of fun for everyone.
There was one by Andy Williams, something about the wheel goes spinning round round round, till it takes me to the one I love. It seems each week they played Volare, Venus, and something by Connie Francis. I have to admit it was a fun rink and they had lots going on. At least once a year on Saturday night they stopped the skating and had a sock hop dance out on the beautiful wood floor. And no shoes allowed, in was in our socks.
As time went on I realized that a song would remind me of a certain person. There was a song for each crush. I was by no means boy crazy but I did have crushes on the ones that I thought were cute. Some songs even reminded me of events.
During some college classes once an instructor talked about the fact that our generation was really the first that had music that was just ours. To some degree that was true, we at least had more of it, but I kept thinking about the roaring 20's and some of the music of that time. I remember my mother singing songs like "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy": and another one something about "the music goes round and round and Whoa oooo ooooo o and it comes out here." I don't believe my grandma listened to that one. He was right about the fact that more music was recorded by young people about young issues like "Puppy Love" and the records were bought by us like crazy.
It is time to make myself some lunch, I'll be back.
