Too Classic!

[pannadol]

Over the past 24 hours I've developed an insatiable appetite for anything classic. I'm talking three-quarter flared skirts, the Andrew Sisters, and gloves (I have yet to find a good pair of these however). Whilst shopping for clothes for Chicago today, I dropped in to the CD store hoping to find perhaps one or two decent oldies CDs, instead coming out with :

• Sounds of the 20th Century - Best of Nostalgia (2 CD set) : featuring artists such as Judy Garland, The Ink Spots, Fred Astaire, Bob Hope, Louis Armstrong, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra (of course), and Nat King Cole
  
• A compilation of Etta James (Known mainly for her song "At last" - you know the one... "At last, my love has come along, my lonely days are over - and life is like a song!")
  
• The Best of Dean Martin
  
• Cliff Richard 1950s compilation
  

These are on top of my Andrew Sisters CD and The Best of Van Morrison CD I already had. I'm so in love with this old music. It's often really relaxing and simple, but with a good riff or beat and REAL voices - not the nasal twang of pop or the speech of rappers - but voices that are singing, using their throats. I love listening to the Andrew Sisters a lot, mainly because even though on the surface they seem like your everyday housewifes singing about womanly deeds, you can feel the sarcasm and the hidden meanings screaming out at you from their songs. Like "Oh Ma-Ma", where it's about a girl who is torn between three men and ends up wanting to marry the "father of the three". There's definately mischief in their songs and I love hearing their protests coming from within these seemingly typical women of the time. Also, my mum told me that they apparently toured a lot during the war and were known for getting up to all sorts of "un-womanly" things - I've decided to research this more. Anyway I'm completely in love with these classic songs and sounds and I bought a beautiful skirt which I've also fallen in love with - I wore it to work tonight. Anyway I'm just tripping over myself in adoration of this discovery of the roots of today's pop music. I love it.