I Remember It Well - Lerner and Loewe -”Gigi” - “We met at nine.” Are you sure?
Things you don’t think about until you get older:v Hey You by Pink Floyd works better for seniors than Hey Joe, Hey Jude, Hey Little Minivan, Hey There Delilah and certainly Hey Nineteen by Steely Dan.
v When Creedence Clearwater asked Have You Ever Seen the Rain, they knew we had to be reminded with Here Comes the Rain Again and Here Comes the Sun.
v The Rolling Stones had a premonition when they wrote I Can’t Get No Satisfaction.
v I Could Have Danced All Night is at most a fleeting thought and the only thing I could have done all night.
v The Beach Boys may get around, but I Get Around in a motorized chair.
v The Beattles’ I Feel Fine is an obfuscation. Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls.
v People who say I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing or I’d Love to Change the World haven’t lived very long.
v Lerner and Loewe likely were very young when they wrote I Remember It Well.
v There are lots of “I Want To” songs: I Want it Now, I want to Hold Your Hand, and I Want To Know What Love Is. Well, don’t we all? For seniors the Ramones romantic classic I Want to Be Sedated trumps them all.
v Carole King wrote It’s Too Late. How did she know? Queen knew something when he wrote Keep Yourself Alive. The Doors knew someone would need to Light My Fire.
v Who beside the Tokens care if The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
v How cruel was it when Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote Memory?
v Songs written to help us remember our loved ones include: Annie, Lucille and Peggy Sue; and songs to remember what time it is: Tonight’s The Night and The Mammas and the Papas’ Monday, Monday. The Beatles were a sheer menace with The Night Before, and Nineteen Forty-One by Harry Nilsson just confuses us.
v Bob Seger befuddles us with Night Moves. When did nights start moving? Paper Lace thought we should know about The Night Chicago Died. I thought Chicago was still alive. The Eagles’ One of These Nights causes me to ask which one.
v Some songs help us know who we are such as Particle Man, Piano Man, Mr. Soul, Misters Tambourine Man, Spaceman, and Rogers; and how could we forget Mrs. Robinson? Styne and Merrill’s People and Depeche Mode’s People are People are simply confounding. No one over 60 should hear them.
v Seniors know It Ain’t Necessarily So.
Songs written specifically for seniors:§ Dust in the Wind - Kansas
§ Every Breath you Take - The Police
§ Everything in Its Own Time - Indigo Girls
§ Fooling Yourself - Styx
§ Fumbling Towards Ecstasy - Sarah McLachlan
§ Help - The Beatles
§ Help Me - Joni Mitchell
Songs with total disregard for seniors:§ Forever Young - Rod Stewart
§ Fun, Fun, Fun - The Beach boys
§ Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley and the Wailers
§ The Best of Times - Jerry Herman
The most insidious songs, however, are those with “remember” in the title. How despicable can the music industry get?
v We are pressured to remember others: The First Man You Remember, A Girl that I Remember, and I Remember You. Sweetheart Will You Remember poses the idea that I might not. Someone asks Oh! Don’t You Remember Sweet Alice? Was I once married to her?
v I am challenged from I Will Remember You to Remember All The People. I don’t even remember you much less all the people? The question seniors most fear to hear is I’m the One Who Loves You - Remember Me?
v I’m to make promises in Promise Me You’ll Remember, the love theme from Godfather III. I can’t promise to remember Godfather I or II.
v The expectations mount in Just Remember I Love You. How can I expect you to remember that when I can’t even remember that I love you? I don’t remember what I ate for lunch, but someone thinks I’ll Remember April, I’ll Remember Love, I’ll Remember You in My Prayers, Remember the Alamo and Remember Pearl Harbor. Did she live in our neighborhood? I am supposed to Remember the Teapot Dome and Remember Rockefeller At Attica. Those are very obtuse.
Other things I am to remember:
§ Remember Boy You’re Irish - There’s a chance.
§ Let’s Make a Night to Remember - Oh that I could.
§ Moments To Remember - Possibly.
§ Remember Me - Or the age appropriate variation “Remember Me?”
§ Remember Way Back - Are you kidding?
§ Remember When - When what?
§ A Song To Remember - Oh come on!
§ Please Remember Me - The ultimate geriatric plea.
§ Remember Your Name and Address - Children’s song becoming the AARP theme song.
§ Remember, Sinful Youth - I wish.
§ Remember, Be Sure and Be There (Na Mele O Hawai'i Nei) - Those Hawaiians sure are kidders.
More things you don’t think about until you get older:v Berlin must have been older when he wrote I Can’t Remember.
v One writer honestly asks Do You Remember, but some Machiavellian fiend had the audacity to pen Did I Remember?
v If You Remember Me has a ring of truth. I Forgot to Remember to Forget and Don’t Forget to Remember are in the dictionary next to “muddled.”
v Then there is Our Love Affair from “Affair to Remember,” the ultimate chick flick classic. Wouldn’t you think I’d remember an affair? Then again, I didn’t remember Sweet Alice.
Some Deep Thoughts (in a sinfully shallow way):
§ The spiritual Do Lord Remember Me asks God to remember. Of course God remembers. Oh dear, what if God asks me to remember Him?
§ Never Again Remember - There’s a theme song for seniors.
§ It’s Easy to Remember - Easy for you, hard for me!
§ She’ll Always Remember - You better believe it!
§ Something I’ll Remember - Meaningful only if I remember what it was.
§ Something To Remember Me By - Same problem.
§ Something To Remember You By - Say again?
§ Stars Will Remember - Heard an interview with a star over 70?
§ Then You’ll Remember Me - An assumption there is to be a miracle.
§ Try to Remember - A song of encouragement.
§ Will You Remember - The ultimate question.
Remember? That’s it in a nutshell.
Epilogue:
I guess you could have read the last line and skipped the rest, but what fun is that?
What? You forgot? You don’t remember why you are here?
Let me remind you. My father taught me to have a good time whether it is any fun or not. What I had to learn on my own was to have a fun time whether it is any good or not. I had fun. I hope you did, too. That’s all there was.
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