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It Was A Very Good Year

It Was A Very Good Year
Created by: RetroJoe
Tracks: 15
Length: 00:55:21
Keywords 1. age
2. years
3. time
Created on 10/18/08 04:54pm
Level 2
Points 1356
Total visitors 16
Unique visitors 8
description:
Since I'm starting to feel my age these days, like Sinatra sings towards the end of the song used for this mixes title: "I'm in the Autumn of the year," I decided it would be good to review the passing of the years in a mix. This compilation aims at using songs that include a persons age in it, which it does in all respects except for track 3. That track fills a ten year gap between tracks 2 & 4. The picture used is a painting entitled "1982 was a very good year".

tracklist

1 Jan and Dean : Baby Talk
This song exudes childlike exuberance (1959 #10).
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Track 20 from Surf City
Length: 00:02:25
Year: 1963
Track Description:
This song exudes childlike exuberance (1959 #10).
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2 Johnny Rivers : Memphis
This is Rivers' first and second best performing song (1964 #2). Marie's age is a mystery till near the endin [...]
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Track 1 from Greatest HIts
Length: 00:02:37
Year: 1998
Track Description:
This is Rivers' first and second best performing song (1964 #2). Marie's age is a mystery till near the ending of the song.
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3 Led Zeppelin : Ten Years Gone
No specific age given, but I've picked this ode to the passage of time as an interlude between two songs that [...]
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Track 4 from Physical Graffiti (disc 2)
Length: 00:06:33
Year: 1975
Track Description:
No specific age given, but I've picked this ode to the passage of time as an interlude between two songs that have ten years between them.
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4 Hayseed Dixie : Christine Sixteen
This is a hillbilly cover of a Kiss song that reached #25 on the pop charts in 1977.
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Track 3 from Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute to Kiss
Length: 00:03:10
Year: 2003
Track Description:
This is a hillbilly cover of a Kiss song that reached #25 on the pop charts in 1977.
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5 The Beatles : I Saw Her Standing There
This song succeeds in expressing the wild energy a girl of seventeen can inspire (more innocently than the son [...]
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Track 1 from Please Please Me
Length: 00:02:58
Year: 0000
Track Description:
This song succeeds in expressing the wild energy a girl of seventeen can inspire (more innocently than the song preceding it) (1964 #14).
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6 Alice Cooper : Eighteen
Eighteen is a banner year in that it is a break away point where many restrictions of the past are ending and [...]
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Track 31 from Freedom Rock
Length: 00:03:00
Year: 1987
Track Description:
Eighteen is a banner year in that it is a break away point where many restrictions of the past are ending and a more free existence is possible. One thing that was true then but not now was that you could legally drink alcohol at eighteen when this song came out. (1971 #21).
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7 Joe Jackson : NIneteen Forever
Of course Joe Jackson was 33 years old when he performed this, but he still comes close to expressing the yout [...]
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Track 8 from Blaze Of Glory
Length: 00:05:44
Year: 1989
Track Description:
Of course Joe Jackson was 33 years old when he performed this, but he still comes close to expressing the youthful resistance to aging that was often a part of being a late teen.
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8 Neil Young : Sugar Mountain
I'm not a big fan of Neil Young, but there are a few numbers by him I like (such as this one).
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Track 6 from Decade
Length: 00:05:43
Year: 1976
Track Description:
I'm not a big fan of Neil Young, but there are a few numbers by him I like (such as this one).
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9 Eagles : Twenty-One
I was bold when I was 21 and this song exemplifies that as well (1973).
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Track 2 from Desperado
Length: 00:02:10
Year: 1973
Track Description:
I was bold when I was 21 and this song exemplifies that as well (1973).
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10 Jamie Cullum : Twentysomething
In my search for age themed songs, I came across this one. This jazzy, well performed song, is of recent vint [...]
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Track 5 from Twentysomething
Length: 00:03:40
Year: 2004
Track Description:
In my search for age themed songs, I came across this one. This jazzy, well performed song, is of recent vintage but has a retro feel to it (I like).
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11 tim mcgraw : My Next Thirty Years
I'm not a big fan of country but this one is well done and it's theme fits like a glove.
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Track 12 from Place In The Sun
Length: 00:03:37
Year: 1999
Track Description:
I'm not a big fan of country but this one is well done and it's theme fits like a glove.
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12 Jerry Lee Lewis : Thirty-Nine And Holding
Again, I'm not a whole lot of country, but I love Jerry Lee's take on it.
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Track 8 from Killer Country
Length: 00:02:56
Year: 1981
Track Description:
Again, I'm not a whole lot of country, but I love Jerry Lee's take on it.
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13 Jimmy Buffett : A Pirate Looks At Forty
"I'm an over Forty victim of fate". This song came out when I was 29, but I didn't hear it till I was 49, whe [...]
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Track 7 from A-1-A
Length: 00:03:55
Year: 1988
Track Description:
"I'm an over Forty victim of fate". This song came out when I was 29, but I didn't hear it till I was 49, when it was more appropriate.
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14 Bill Morrissey : Fifty
Not a big name artist, but a good song. Another accidental discovery in my quest for songs to fit this theme [...]
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Track 4 from The Essential Collection
Length: 00:02:26
Year: 2004
Track Description:
Not a big name artist, but a good song. Another accidental discovery in my quest for songs to fit this theme (recorded sometime during the 1985-2003 period).
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15 Frank Sinatra : It Was A Very Good Year
A poetic look at special times in a man's voyage through life as sung by a great musical artist (1966 #28).
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Track 35 from The Reprise Collection
Length: 00:04:27
Year: 0000
Track Description:
A poetic look at special times in a man's voyage through life as sung by a great musical artist (1966 #28).
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Interesting hearing the Beatles version in stereo, and Frank's ...it was a very good year.
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Interesting. When I saw the mix title I thought "isn't it a little early to the year in review already", but this is something else. That Alice Cooper track bring back a lot of memories. It was an anthem for me and my friends. Nice to end with Sinatra, too.
10/18/08 05:41pm
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