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For some reason, I'm a big fan of the movie "Xanadu". ELO kinda starts it all off with "I'm Alive".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9YIfEzXSHA

I may have posted this before.


https://youtu.be/MIKSQT-oXfc

Peter Gunn goes back to some of my earliest memories of watching TV. Rawhide was earlier, but that's about it.

one of my favorite scenes from Hatari had Mancini background music what a rush



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX-UNQK-2vA

Well if we're going to go down this path, I have no choice but to throw some Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass into the mix!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js_ljwaQNVA&list=PLBkQhFof_6diVHIljlnhk3lifhJAwzoeR&index=1

My 14yo son has never really been as interested in pop/rock music, as my 16yo daughter.  I've commented how she loves all of the 80s music that my i s c & a aggie wife and I have exposed her to, and those still remain among her favorites in all of her playlists, but she also loves to explore musically, and go down rabbit holes when she hears any song new or old, that interests her, to see what else that band has to offer.  She likes pretty much all forms of music, though rap is probably her least favorite.  She's always whistling or singing a song, she's always blasting music from her room or her car.  Basically, she's a music-lover in the exact same way I was at her age (and still am, for the most part).

My son, on the other hand, has never expressed a whole lot of interest in music.  He'd rather play video games or watch tiktok videos or get on his bike and hang out with his friends.  He rarely plays music from his room, rarely sings or hums anything.  He just doesn't seem to "feel" music the way his sister and my wife and I do.  Which is fine of course, not everyone has to feel and express themselves in the same way.

However, he does pick up on a particular song every now and then, and then he really focuses on it.  Several songs that my daughter tells me are regulars on tiktok, but also some random ones.

For example, when we first saw the Captain America movie, there's a scene where Steve Rogers dances with Peggy Carter.  It's an old World War II era song since that's the setting for the movie, and it's one I've known forever, it's a standard, a classic.  But for some reason it really registered with my son, and it's one of the few songs he'll hum, or whistle, or put on the stereo to play.  And now that he plays trumpet, he's figured out how to play it, and so in the midst of him practicing for whatever concert or solo he has coming up, it's not uncommon to hear him bust into this song for a few bars, just to keep himself engaged and entertained.

That song, is "It's Been a Long, Long Time"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chs2bmqzyUs