Old Enough to Forget

I've been listening to a lot of rock lately, and every so often I'll dip deeper into collection and clean out my ears a little with some good old fashioned pop. 1962 and I wasn't even a tadpole ... but this album has so many songs that I remember as a kid. Considering the heyday of variety television when I was growing up I probably saw him perform many of these songs. It's hard to imagine what things were like in the early '60s. I'm scanning through Andy William's discography, and from what I can tell, Moon River And Other Great Movie Themes was his ninth studio album, and in 1962 he would release four albums, admittedly some were likely compilations. Still, that's a lot of wax baby. This album would go gold, and stayed on the billboard charts for an astonishing 176 weeks. Take that Dark Side of the Moon ! I really like this album. The big song here is "Moon River" that was a new song at the time, and over the years the song would be synonymo...

I will address the elephant in the room straight off. Gospel music really is not in my wheelhouse, nor was it music I grew up with as a kid. Oh, I grew up with an abundance of good old fashioned church music, and a lot of the old hymns still get me in the feels. I am not really into gospel, but when it comes to Christmas music, I'd rather sit and listen to this than have to suffer through the caterwauling that passes for a lot of the "modern" takes on Christmas classics. Released in 1962, Silent Night captures the reverence and sacred essence of the holidays. The music is sparse, predominantly organ with some orchestra and backing chorus that was conducted by Johnny Williams. Johnny Williams ... this was 1962, I wonder if this is the guy we now know as John Williams. You know, that John Williams - you likely just hummed one of two songs in your head right now, the theme from Star Wars, or at least the "da da, da na na na na, da na na na na, nah nah na naaaah" o...