Download    Hip-Hop and Rap are about numbing your mind and not having to think.  This music (and I use the term loosely) is bland and uninteresting and totally uninspired.  It grates on your nerves like scraping your fingernails across a chalkboard.  Rap lyrics are either stupid or violent or disgusting… and sometimes all three.  The beat and hard bass line are designed to lull your senses into a dull fog from which you can never escape.  Wait a minute… isn’t that disco?  I believe it is!  And that, folks, is when music began it’s downhill slide.  I blame “Saturday Night Fever” for all the woes of the world.

But before that there were the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s – the three decades when music was at it’s best.  There was love and hope and innocence and sometimes even politics – and it was fun!  So I was excited when I got a request to do a simple medley of  2 or 3 tunes from the late fifties.  I chose “You Send Me” and “Silhouettes” as the primary melodies and threw in two others just to keep the singer on her toes (see if you can pick them out).

As in all good medleys, you want to keep the songs similar in style and composition so the flow is smooth from one to another.  You can do that by just playing the same four chords over and over again (style of the 50’s).  Wait!  Isn’t that bland, uninspired and mind-numbing???  Oh, no!