T his blog is a twelve month culmination of my ongoing series Fifty Years of Music where I feature a month and year fifty years ago. In , I was a sixteen year old sophomore and then in the fall started my junior year of high school. Here's a look back at the historical, film, and musical events of that year.
The following selected dates are from Wikipedia in italics: , in Film , and in Music. I have also added my own little commentary in regular text on some of the date entries. I can't deny that this week's playlist of could have easily taken on many more songs but for the fact that YouTube stops embedded playlists at I know I lose marketing hits to the blog by using the term, "Favorites" but so be it, people want to be told what are the "Best" songs to listen to.
Here's my Favorite 'Top 40' albums of I did rate them, blending my 16 year-old self with my 66 year-old self. The majority of the great songs in the playlist this week come from these 40 albums.
I did not rate the songs themselves but simply created my standard handmade random-feel mix. Shuffle icon This mix got me thinking about the first cassette mix tapes I started making in the 70's and playing in my car.
When the Apple iPod came out in , it continued making personal music portable and lighter, but also freed songs from being in a linear order with the digital 'Shuffle' feature. For me, Shuffle has been a concept I have fully embraced for twenty years now for listing to playlists, or when listening to all your songs on a device or service. My YouTube playlists are almost always designed to create a handmade random-feel of the Shuffle button I use on my smartphone music app.
