Anderson Layman's Blog has a song by Jim Reeves which took me back to childhood. My parents were major Jim Reeves fans. Eddy Arnold was another contender for the top spot in the Wade household. There was a lot of country music with Hank Williams, Hank Snow, and Marty Robbins.
Classical music was mainly obtained via cartoons. [There may be a deep Bugs Bunny/psychological basis for my love of classical music.]
My grandfather listened to tunes such as "Irene, Goodnight" and "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen."
I still know the words of many of those songs because families listened to the same music in those days. Eventually, portable record-players and transistor radios permitted children to escape to their rooms and their own music. I was part of that exodus. The first album I purchased was "Meet The Beatles."
But the memories of Jim Reeves are warm ones and although a teenager might have resisted admitting it, he was very good.
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