When I think about my life I think about music. I love music. If I am in a bad mood or feel lazy and must accomplish a task such as cleaning, I turn on the music. I mostly listen to upbeat music of Michael Jackson, JLo, Whitney Houston, and the list goes on and on. But, when I need to feel really good I listen to a good old classic that usually, note usually, lifts me up. That song is “Here Comes Summer” by Jerry Keller. This was written in 1959 and even today when spring is approaching I can actually hear it played on the radio if I am lucky.
What this song reminds me of is beautiful, long, warm summer days. Days where you can’t wait to get out of bed so that you can enjoy the wonderful outdoors. I would play this when I was an early teenager. My summer days consisted before I had to start work of getting up in the early hours of summer, put on shorts and a t-shirt, go out in the garden pick raspberries, and start enjoying the beautiful summer day.
Even to this day when I hear this song, it brings back such lovely, comfortable feelings.
Music is played at my house on a very high volume. I like to feel like I am in the speaker. I love the pounding of the beat in my chest. The problem with listening to my favorite kind of music which entails many, many songs, is it is hard to clean or do bookwork while dancing around the house. Now, when the song, Here Comes Summer should come on, since it is not on the top ten list today, everything stops. The volume rises and I dance my heart out.
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