Music To Surf By

Jukebox
A BIG CHT to the reader who recommended

THIS SITE.

Which was suggested to him by a gracious Christian lady.

It’s a free, Internet jukebox that you can use while you are reading blogs–or otherwise surfing the Internet.

It advertises itself as "The best of the top 100 from the golden years of popular music," and the main section is divided into years from 1952 to 1982. When you click on a year, it generates a pop-up window with a playlist of famous songs from that year that you can listen to in the background as you surf other sites.

In addition, it has links to specialized collections, such as the "Swing Era" (before 1952), the featured artist of the week (e.g., Nat King Cole), Movie Themes, TV Themes, Christmas music, Pop Gospel, and others.

The playlists aren’t (so far as I can tell) randomly generated, making it easy to pick up where you left off last time if you weren’t finished with one. Just scroll down to the same song you left off on.

Enjoy.

GET THE TUNES!

P.S. I really love the fact that the 1955 playlist has the Ames Brothers’ "The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane" (it’s #13 on the list; scroll down and click on it). This is a song I’m used to round dancing to that presents itself as if it’s naughty, but which reveals itself in the last two verses  (and really the last line of the song) to be entirely innocent. Great fake-out. Good things come to those who wait.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

8 thoughts on “Music To Surf By”

  2. For some customized streaming music (and tabbed browser pages in Firefox and IE 7 makes this especially accessible), check out http://pandora.com
    Just put in your favorite artist and it will play a song representative of that artist’s style; then it will build a playlist of songs/artists with a similar style.

  3. Oh, yeah … and you can give the other songs its playing a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down”, so it will learn your tastes and what the station should play. (You can make multiple stations too)
    It’s a cool way to discover new music.

  4. Serendipity! I just found this site last week. I was having some moral qualms about it (Is it legal? Am I stealing music?) until I thought of it as a radio station. I guess it is moral since you are not actually downloading the song for your own unlimited use. The site has brought back many fond memories.

  5. Cool!
    Remember belting out “Let Me Go Lover” from ’55 when I was 7!
    And ya gotta admit The Platters and Roy Orbison were and are always great. Not to forget the Shirelles, Jim Reeves, Brothers Four, Lettermen – what a combination, huh!

  6. I’m just glad someone else close to me in age knows the song “The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane.” Sometimes I feel like I’m a little on the odd side…

  7. I remember that song. I was a fan of the Mills Brothers. I loved their harmonies, even as a kid.
    “Naughty Lady” is sweet AND humorous.

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