Comments on: That’s All Right Mama http://xponentialmusic.org/blogs/885mmmm/2007/07/25/thats-all-right-mama/ Just another Xponentialmusic.org weblog Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:36:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Bruce Brownlee http://xponentialmusic.org/blogs/885mmmm/2007/07/25/thats-all-right-mama/#comment-118 Bruce Brownlee Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:39:53 +0000 http://xponentialmusic.org/blogs/885mmmm/2007/07/25/thats-all-right-mama/#comment-118 My earliest musical memories seem to be from the turn of the 20th century up through the 1950s. This is odd, because I wasn't born until 1950. But I always thought, "I've heard that song before," as though I actually had. However, my warmest memory of my actual childhood is of watching the shortlived fifteen-minute Frank Sinatra television series (1954? he was a has-been at this point), trying desperately to keep my eyes open, and hearing FS sing his theme song, "Put Your Dreams Away For Another Day." And I did. As a damn Yankee I didn't discover country music until some years later, probably through The Byrds' "Sweethjeart of the Rodeo" -- not the best or most authentic place to start, but it proved sufficient. A real Elvis sighting, eh, Saff? Lucky you. My brother has been to Memphis to worship at the shrine. I have not made the pilgrimmage. My earliest musical memories seem to be from the turn of the 20th century up through the 1950s. This is odd, because I wasn’t born until 1950. But I always thought, “I’ve heard that song before,” as though I actually had. However, my warmest memory of my actual childhood is of watching the shortlived fifteen-minute Frank Sinatra television series (1954? he was a has-been at this point), trying desperately to keep my eyes open, and hearing FS sing his theme song, “Put Your Dreams Away For Another Day.” And I did.

As a damn Yankee I didn’t discover country music until some years later, probably through The Byrds’ “Sweethjeart of the Rodeo” — not the best or most authentic place to start, but it proved sufficient.

A real Elvis sighting, eh, Saff? Lucky you. My brother has been to Memphis to worship at the shrine. I have not made the pilgrimmage.

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