#AtoZchallenge (2018) Y is for feeling Youthful

My theme for this challenge is “feelings” of a sexagenarian and the influence of social media.

My tema vir hierdie uitdaging is “gevoelens” van ‘n sestig-plusser en die invloed van sosiale media.

English (Afrikaans below):

Youthful:  young or seeming young, girlish, boyish. Growing up in the 1960’s to early 70’s, during the years of “make love, not war”, meant that our lives were dominated by romance. The war was far away in countries unknown, but the music and the sentimental lyrics within reach.

The role of social media: With an ever-increasing number of senior citizens using social media these days, I cannot but fail but notice how our generation yearns for the “good old days’ and the “golden oldies”. What does surprise me, is that my children and their contemporaries also seem to enjoy the YouTube videos as much as I do. It just goes to show that love and romance are timeless. I hope you enjoy the songs that I selected and if you are my age, just close your eyes to experience the feeling of youthful love, optimism and lust for life again. Today’s emoji: 🤩

Afrikaans:

Jeugdig: jonk of skynbaar jonk, meisieagtig, seunsagtig. Om groot te word in die 1960’s en vroeë 70’s, gedurende die jare van “maak liefde, nie oorlog nie”, het beteken dat ons lewens oorheers was deur romanse. Die oorlog was ver, in onbekende lande , maar die musiek en die sentimentele lirieke was binne bereik.

Die rol van sosiale media: Met ‘n toenemende aantal senior burgers wat deesdae sosiale media gebruik, kan ek nie anders as om te op te let hoe ons generasie verlang na die “goeie ou dae” en die “golden oldies” nie. Wat my altyd verras, is dat my kinders en hul tydgenote ook die YouTube-video’s net soveel geniet as wat ek doen. Dit wys net dat liefde en romanse tydloos is. Ek hoop jy geniet die liedjies wat ek gekies het en as jy my ouderdom is, maak net jou oë toe om die gevoel van jeugdige liefde, optimisme en lus vir die lewe weer te ervaar. Emoji vir vandag: 🤩

Read all my entries for the #AtoZchallenge (April 2018) here.

Are You Lonesome Tonight (Elvis Presley) 1960

Are you lonesome tonight
Do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
Does your memory stray to a brighter sunny day
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart?
Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare?
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?
Tell me, dear, are you lonesome tonight?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-YqaTDDCDM

I Can’t Stop Loving You (Ray Charles) 1962

I’ve made up my mind
To live in memory of the lonesome times
(I can’t stop wanting you)
It’s useless to say
So I’ll just live my life in dreams of yesterday

Unchained Melody (Righteous Brothers) 1965

Oh, my love
My darling
I’ve hungered for your touch
A long, lonely time
And time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHtGu0OGEpc
To Love Somebody (The Bee Gees) 1967

You don’t know what it’s like, baby
You don’t know what it’s like
To love somebody
To love somebody
The way I love you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdykXAT19Go
Nights in White Satin (The Moody Blues) 1967

Nights in white satin
Never reaching the end
Letters I’ve written
Never meaning to send
Beauty I’d always missed
With these eyes before
Just what the truth is
I can’t say any more
‘Cause I love you
Yes I love you
Oh how I love you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lxWQtmmJdE

Cry to Me (The Staccatos) 1966 [This is a South African band who recorded the song that Solomon Burke made famous in 1961]

When your baby,
leaves you all alone
And nobody calls you on the phone
Don’t you feel like crying
Don’t you feel like crying
C’mon baby, cry to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AERc3KyzHc

You (Peter Maffay) 1970

Your eyes they tell me all the things you mean to say
I feel the same way as you
You are the first girl to count in my life
I, I live only for you

You alone are all I have in this world
You alone you, you’re my girl

I Just Can’t Help Believing (Elvis Presley) 1970
I just can’t help believin’
When she smiles up soft and gentle
With a trace of misty morning
And the promise of tomorrow in her eyes
I just can’t help believin’
When she’s lying close beside me
And my heart beats with the rhythm of her sighs
This time the girl is gonna stay
This time the girl is gonna stay
For more than just a day

Annie’s Song (John Denver) 1970

You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again