Four Walls

@FourWalls (62096)

United States

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1984 Top Ten: Let’s Talk Dirty in Hawaiian (#8)

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 13h

It’s been a great birth month for me. I hope you’ve enjoyed celebrating with me as I look at these timeless songs that somehow have turned 40 and 70 years old. That’s the joy of music: it truly is timeless. Up next on the...

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1954 Top Ten: Mr. Sandman (#8)

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 13h

Welcome back, Pat Ballard! He wrote yesterday’s 1954 hit, and waddaya know, he’s back! He probably lived the rest of his life (he died in 1960) quite comfortably on the royalties of that and this, his better-known...

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1954 Top Ten: (Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely (#9)

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 22 Apr

For those of you who hate country music, just go back and listen to the 1984 song again. Yes, for today’s 70-year-old song, I’m venturing back to the hayloft for today’s song that comes from 1954. One of my...

classic country music

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1984 Top Ten: Jump (For My Love) (#9)

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 22 Apr

Dental day. It’s Monday, so it might as well be really bad, so I’ll get my teeth cleaned too. I’m celebrating rolling the odometer over to another year this month with a look at songs that...

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1984 Top Ten: Go Ahead and Rain (#10)

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 21 Apr

Before I head off to see my niece I’ll start the list of the top ten songs I enjoy the most from 1984. You won’t agree with any of these (a lot of these were flops or album cuts), but hey, that’s what makes the world go round....

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1954 Top Ten: Sh-Boom (Life Could Be a Dream) (#10)

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 21 Apr

Top ten time! While I sit in a different Chuy’s (had to come over and see my brother) I’ll get you started on my ten favorite songs from seventy years ago. No, I wasn’t around then; however, records were, and I discovered...

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70-Year-Old Songs: You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 20 Apr

After three weeks of looking at songs from 1954, you can see what a pivotal year it was for music. We had great country (okay, in my opinion), great pop, swing, and the advent of rock and roll. Before we head into the top...

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40-Year-Old Songs: You Might Think

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 20 Apr

Well, this is it. Tomorrow the top ten songs of 1984 start appearing before your eyes. And you’ll probably wish they wouldn’t. As for now, I’ll close out the alphabetical list with a song that can’t possibly...

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40-Year-Old Songs: Working on the Highway

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 19 Apr

One thing is for certain: when you get to 1984, you simply CANNOT ignore this album. It’s one of those albums that “everybody” owned back then. And what do you know, it’s now forty years old this year!! Wow. Let’s...

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70-Year-Old Songs: You Done Me Wrong

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 19 Apr

I’m happy to say we survived the weather. There were some pretty nasty storms in St. Louis and they looked like they were heading right for us. Thankfully, they started to weaken as they traveled along I-64. That’s cause for...

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70-Year-Old Songs: (We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 18 Apr

Going back 70 years, before I was born (and before many of you were born), we reach another point in the countdown where the reverberations from 1954 are still being felt today. Here’s another song that’s now 70 years old…and...

music

top ten lists

1954 songs

bill haley and the comets

bill haley

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40-Year-Old Songs: Why Not Me

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 18 Apr

It’s a beautiful day here in the land of the Kentucky Derby as I continue celebrating my birth month with this look at songs that are turning 40 this year; and, in a separate list, the ones that are now 70. This isn’t designed to...

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40-Year-Old Songs: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 17 Apr

So…we have a hardcore country song that’s 70 years old now. What do we balance that with? How about THIS classic from 1984? There was a “thing” in the early-mid 80s where catchy, infectious pop songs RULED. This one of the...

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70-Year-Old Songs: Truck Drivin’ Man

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 17 Apr

What do you know, I get a birthday present today. Here we have a song that’ll be 70 years old this year, by a relatively obscure country singer, and my favorite “noper” NJ Chic KNOWS IT! How did I manage that? I didn’t do...

classic country music

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70-Year-Old Songs: This Ole House

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 16 Apr

To celebrate my birthday this month, I’m celebrating songs that are also celebrating “milestone” birthdays this year: 40, 50, 60, and now 70 year old songs. I went back to the 1950s for the first time because of the advent...

classic country music

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40-Year-Old Songs: Smuggler’s Blues

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 16 Apr

Enjoy this song, because today’s 70-year-old song is country. Can you believe this song is 40 years old now? Wow! Back to 1984 we go for today’s song that’s part of my birthday celebration this...

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40-Year-Old Songs: Run Runaway

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 15 Apr

So today we have the genesis of rock and roll with Elvis in 1954. Then we go forward 30 years to see what evolved from that. What a way to celebrate a birthday, huh? This is just a little different ...

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70-Year-Old Songs: That’s All Right

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 15 Apr

That’s right, it’s been seventy years now since the shot heard ‘round the world in music. We’ve heard the rumblings in other songs from 1954, but this was the musical atomic bomb. So sing along and enjoy the 70th...

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70-Year-Old Songs: Smile

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 14 Apr

Again, asterisk. The genesis of today’s song from 1954 goes back nearly 20 years before this recording, but hey, this version IS from 1954, so there! Can you believe it’s been 70 years since this song was released? I...

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40-Year-Old Songs: Robert De Niro’s Waiting…

Four Walls @FourWalls (62096) • United States 14 Apr

Oooh, what a gorgeous day! Our local meteorologist gave some sage advice: “enjoy it.” Rain most of the week, then the typical Thunder Over Louisville weather next weekend (blustery and in the 50s). But that’s not here...

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