Moments to Remember

I've been on the computer preparing minutes from our last Women on Missions meeting and drafting a letter to my high school classmates from 1957, and while working, listening to oldies but goodies from the 50's. It's been nice listening to the old favorites such as "Class of '57", "Moments to Remember", "Rock around the Clock", "Myrtle Beach Days" and other great shagging/bopping/jitterbugging songs. I was a big shagger in those days, and a good one at that, even if I do say so myself! My cousin and I used to burn the floor whenever I visited him. Ah, but my first boyfriend and I enjoyed many dance steps together. Steve's dad used to come pick me up and take us with him and his wife to the big dances. In those days, we had many big-name bands who would come around our little Southern town. During the summers, my friends, their families, and I would spend time at Myrtle Beach where shagging was actually begun. And, when we couldn't get there, we would often go to a nearby lake where there was a dance pavilion. (the lake has since been filled in due to some bad kids taking over the site). When I went away to college, we often had famous singers perform for us, folks such as Fats Domino, Louis Armstrong, etc. We didn't have to pay mega-bucks to hear these bands either. Times have really changed since the 50's and early 60's, times I think were the best; my hubby, however, thinks music hasn't been good since the 40's. He says songs weren't silly, etc., but then I seem to remember a song about monkeys ("Abba Dabba Dabba") and mares eating oats and does eating oats and also little lambs eating ivy. (I do remember one of our songs about a purple people-eater though and a caveman named Alley Oop)