My mom loved music and dancing and so my young childhood years are filled with many warm memories of fun songs and happy music filling our space and time.
One of my favorite memories, in fact, now that I think back on it.
She’s gone now, two weeks today in fact, and I find that revisiting some of this music makes me both happy and sad at the same time, if that is possible to imagine. That’s just how that works, I guess.
Trini Lopez Live at PJs from 1963 — “America”
Same album, “Bye Bye Blackbird”
Her initials were “PJ” so “Live at PJs” held special meaning.
The whole album is full of fun, upbeat, danceable, singalongs like these, plus his relentless driving rhythm guitar and charisma and energy — it can be streamed here on YouTube.
Al Hirt, “Java”
Al Hirt, “Tansy”
I just listened to the whole thing front to back for the first time in at least 50 years. Still great. The whole album can be streamed here on YouTube.
