ALAN writes:

In an age of Big Lies of Stalinist proportions, asserted equally by Big Government and Professional Racketeers;  when millions of people agree to accept those lies in vacuum-headed acquiescence;  of streets littered with trash, vacant houses, abandoned storefronts, businesses put out of business by Big Government, and vandalized buildings;  of the vile, ugly noise called “music” blasted forth from passing vehicles, and Communist “art” and “sculpture” carefully designed to project contempt for beauty, virtue, and restraint;  and streetscapes of such ugliness as would impel my father and my uncle, both World War II veterans, to say to themselves, “We must be in 1945 Germany;  this cannot be the USA we remember,”……

……in the midst of all that, I walk along with melodies from long ago playing in my head, glorious, life-affirming, uplifting, soaring, beautifully-orchestrated songs, the kinds of songs that inspired Lawrence Auster, writing about “Over There”, to say, “This is the way America used to be.” [VFR, June 28, 2008];  the kinds of songs that were presented on television variety programs like “The Ed Sullivan Show” and “The Tonight Show” at a time before American audiences became stupid enough to applaud filth, freaks, and obnoxious noise…..

uplifting melodies like:

Janet Gaynor’s “Keep Your Sunny Side Up” (1929),

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’ “Pick Yourself Up” (1936),

Martha Tilton’s “And the Angels Sing” (1939),

Anne Shelton’s “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” (1940),

Jane Froman’s “With a Song in My Heart” (1952),

Eddie Heywood’s “Soft, Summer Breeze” (1956),

and Marilyn Maye’s “Step to the Rear” (1967).

Am I the only person left on this continent who walks through parks and along city streets WITHOUT gadgets plugged into my skull but with soaring melodies playing in my head, melodies that point upward, melodies that quite obviously come from another age and could have been composed only by men and women with a confident, buoyant frame of mind and sense of life, melodies like those in Robert Goulet’s “On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)” (1965), or the melodies that David Rose composed for the television Western series “Bonanza” in the 1960s, especially the enchanting “Ponderosa”, with strings and harp?

To remember glorious music while walking through the ruins of Western Civilization……what could be more incongruous?

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Laura writes:

Those were some beautiful songs.

But it’s important to remember that behind that buoyant outlook was apathy, incipient hedonism and a great lack of discernment. The lies of World War II led to the lies of today. This effusion of sentimentality and romance seems to me now to be part of the deliberate and calculated effort to distract Americans from their own fate and the awful reality of unnecessary, fratricidal wars that only served to advance world Communism. Given this blindness and escapism, it was only a matter of time that the iron boot would fall on us too. The entertainment industrial complex was coddling us. (Most of these composers and songwriters were Jewish and world Communism is Jewish in origin, design and execution.)

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