So many of my favorite singers have left this earth. But have they really?
There was a time, back in the 1960s when a new release by a giant in the music industry would instantly take me to a place I wanted to be.
The musicians we have lost in 2022 alone could fill every concert hall from New York to the Coast of California for decades — and take a listener to a place down the road where they want to be, to the loved one just ahead…or maybe transform them back in time, back to a place they yearn for.
Gone but never to be forgotten this year: Meat Loaf, Olivia Newton-John, Jimmy Seals, Paul Ryder, Mickey Gilley, Naomi Judd, Bobby Rydell…well the list is mind boggling, and goes on and on.
All of our favorite musicians, all filled with the talent, charisma and the ability to spiral us backwards, if you’re a senior citizen like me that is, to a time where love, kindness and a simple warm summer day and a set of Sony earphones and a walk in the park, could turn your day into a beautiful day and make you smile…and maybe cling to a three-minute tune in your head that’ll stick with you until later in the day when you are forced to enter the real world again.
Roy Orbison could do that to me — the crooner taken from us in 1988 at the age of 52…34 years ago, and yet his songs are all ingrained inside my jukebox: Onlythe Lonely; Running Scared; Crying; Love Hurts; It’s Over…Pretty Woman.
The roads our great musicians of the past followed were sometimes treacherous. The loss of Patsy Cline, Buddy Holly and Ricky Nelson left us with an “instant sadness” and yet here they are today, inside our own personal jukebox.
Life goes on.
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