Originally Posted By cgiles
Thanks guys. Tony, for some reason the old tunes from that era just seem to flow more naturally. Even the lyrics actually made sense smile. Of course most of the tunes we now label as 'standards' started life as 'show tunes', composed mostly for Broadway shows by the great Broadway composers of that era. Ahhh, what a 'golden age' for music.
chas


chas, I agree ... A good number of them were also written for movies ... It's interesting that in the 'old days' songs were written for movies, and with the advent of MTV, 3 minute movies (videos) were made for songs ...
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