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The Fifties...Music

The music of the fifties…well, what can I say…
was heaven here on earth compared with that today.
Romantic, lovely sentiments of heart and soul,
with poems set to music to advise, console.

Mid-fifties music era rendered lovely songs
safeguarded in my heart these many years, belong
forever to remember, matter not how old.
These gems, mid-fifties' songs, hold memories untold.

Too many to recall, but I can single one,
the song played at our wedding, never was outdone.
The Platter’s hit song “Only You,” so touched our hearts,
its words hold true today, and here is how it starts:

      “Only you can make this world seem right
       Only you can make the darkness bright
       Only you and you alone can thrill me like you do
       And fill my heart with love for only you
       Only you can make this change in me
       For it's true, you are my destiny
       When you hold my hand I understand the magic that you do
       You're my dream come true, my one and only you….”

Romantic, lovely sentiments of heart and soul,
with poems set to music to advise, console,
was heaven here on earth compared with those today.
The music of the fifties…well, what can I say…

Below, more songs and hits that then did make my day!

      Memories Are Made of This ~ Dean Martin
            Great Pretender ~ The Platters
                  Rock and Roll Waltz ~ Kay Starr
      Heartbreak Hotel ~ Elvis Presley
            A Tear Fell ~ Theresa Brewer
                  I Walk the Line ~ Johnny Cash
      The Wayward Wind ~ Gogi Grant
            Ivory Tower ~ Cathy Carr
                  On the Street Where You Live ~ Vic Damone
      Allegany Moon ~ Patti Page
            Tonight You Belong To Me ~ Patience and Prudence
                  Love Me Tender ~ Elvis Presley
      True Love ~ Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly
            In the Still of the Night ~ The Five Satins
                  Goodnight My Love ~ Jesse Belvins
  
The music of the fifties…well, what can I say…


Sandra M. Haight

~3rd Place~
Contest: Old or New Poems
Sponsor: Eve Roper
Judged: 07/25/2016

~4th Place~
Contest: Decades
Sponsor: Kelly Deschler
Judged: 03/22/2015

Form: Couples in iambic hexameter (12 syllables and 6 beats per line...except in 'Only You' words and list of songs).
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