1944

Below is a list of songs that came out in 1944.. the year I was born.  I guess they all did pretty darn good because I can hum or (sorta) sing along with most of these songs and I don't think my memory on the year I was born would be THAT  good to remember them!!

1944's Greatest Hits
1. Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral - Bing Crosby
2. Trolley Song - Judy Garland 
3. Swinging On A Star - Bing Crosby 
4. Hamp's Boogiw Woogie - Lionel Hampton
5. Mairzy Doates - Merry Macs
6. You Always Hurt The One You Love - Mills Brothers 7. Twilight Time - Les Brown 
8. It Could Happen to You - Jo Stafford
9. Don't Fence Me In - Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters 
10. Besame Mucho - Jimmy Dorsey 
11. San Fernando Valley - Bing Crosby
12. Shoo-Shoo Baby - Andrews Sisters
13. I'll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore
14. I'm Making Believe - Ella Fitzgerald & Ink Spots
15. I'll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
16. Straighten Up And Fly Right - The King Cole Trio
17. Main Stem - Duke Ellington
18. G.I. Jive - Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five
19. My Heart Tells Me - Glen Gray
20. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me - Duke Ellington
21. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall - Ella Fitzgerald & Ink Spots
22. I'm Lost - Benny Carter
23. I Love You - Bing Crosby
24. Cow-Cow Boogie -(Cuma-Ti-Yi-Yi-Ay) - Ink Spots with Ella Fitzgerald
25. It's Love-Love-Love - Guy Lombardo

Here's a list of movies release that same year........

I'm not always great at remembering "titles" but I'd say for sure I've seen at least 90 percent of these old movies.. could be 100 percent but a few titles aren't jumping right out at me.

Adventures of Mark Twain
American Romance, An
Arsenic and Old Lace
Between Two Worlds
Children Are Watching Us, The
Cover Girl
Double Indemnity
Dragon Seed
Fighting Seabees, The
Gaslight
Going My Way
Great Moment, The
Hail the Conquering Hero
Henry V
Jane Eyre
Laura
Lifeboat
Meet Me in St. Louis
Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The
Mr. Skeffington
Mrs. Parkington
Murder, My Sweet
Music for Millions
National Velvet
Passage to Marseille
Seventh Cross, The
Show Business
Since You Went Away
Sullivans, The
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
Suspect, The
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
To Have and Have Not

I am not sure why I looked up these lists.  It's said that one should not dwell on the past, that it's not healthy or good for you.   It made me wonder why they say that.  When a person has nothing left to look forward too, the past is all they have.  And for the most part, the memories of times long past might even make us smile.  Is that so wrong?

I think many people look back just to help get through life... 

When we who are old are  feeling our age, and knowing how close the end is.. it is hard not to try to remember when we were young. 

...To a time when life seemed unending.

...To a time when there were few responsibilities.

...Few losses of relatives or friends.

...And to a time when tomorrow seemed to take a long time coming.

I just finished reading a book titled: Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story  by Carolyn Turgeon.  It may well be the reason I thought to write this post. I swear that  Carolyn Turgeon climbed inside of my head and ripped out thoughts and feelings I have about being old.  How she did this I don't know because some of what she wrote are just thoughts and feelings that are not said out loud unless totally alone while looking in a mirror. 

But there is more.. something people over 30 but under 50 should know.

..wrinkles don't happen by looking at someone with them, and they need others in their life too.

...gray hair is going to happen to you, like it or not.

...sagging skin is not contagious, but unavoidable unless very rich and you like surgery.

Strangely enough, very young children seem to like old people and even gravitate towards them.  But sometime after youth but before old age, they just don't want to be around old people, even (or especially) their parents.  Quite possibly this is because they don't want to see, on a daily basis, what they will be in what they are beginning to realize, is a very short time.

But they don't think.

They don't realize the loneliness and the fears of being unwanted and alone.

The times have changed greatly.. another reason old people like to think back to "the old days".  There was a time... and it was a given... when your parents became elderly the children took them in and took care of them, lived with them, helped them in all the ways they helped them when they were very young.  It was a given.  No one thought about it.  It was a given.  It was family.

It seems that's all changed.  And most of it is due to the economy.  The costs of everything are so high both spouses are forced to work.  Many kids are latchkey kids, coming home to an empty house.  No one is there to care if the elderly exist or not.

I can hear some of you denying this, and I am not saying it's everyone.. but if you think what I say is untrue... go to some senior living places and ask them. 

..Ask them how they feel living alone. 

..Ask them how it feels to have to live with no one but other elders and to watch them die one by one, so that death surrounds you .

..Ask them if they feel loved by relatives.  I think anyone who does is in for a surprise response.

In case you couldn't guess I am having a rough day.. just needed to spout off some.  Not even sure it helps.

I'll try to be back in a better mood!