Two Fer Thursday - 50 Rock and Roll Songs

Did you ever get an idea to do something and after you did it wondered why you did? Two Fer Thursday - 50 Rock and Roll Songs is a perfect example of me doing just that. Having just read, "To Air Is Human", I visited You Tube to listen to some of the songs mentioned in the book. "Two Fer Thursday" popped into my mind and the next thing you know, I think: Aha! Article! Shoot me. I did it; here it is:

"We're living here in Allentown, they're tearing all the factories down" Billy Joel crooned. I often wondered how Joel would write a song about a dying town; like, who ever heard of Allentown? He does perform live concerts in the area, so perhaps that is why he wrote about that particular city, that could be any city, USA. How I happened to be living there in Allentown takes a bit of telling and has nothing to do with Two Fer Thursday - 50 Rock and Roll Songs. One of the things about Allentown that Billy Joel did not sing about was the lack of variety in available radio stations. That is how I happened to often~like almost every day~listen to a Classic Rock radio station. Thursdays were "two fer" days. Two fer were double-play flashbacks or two songs from the same artist played back to back without interuption.

Classic Rock music skipped right over the 1950s and included little of the 1960s. Except, of course the Stones. It has been a while since I listened to that station, thus I can not say with any accuracy, but I do believe they did not play the Beatles and what could be considered more classic than that? I could be wrong. I actually still have an old cassette tape recorded from the station playing John Lennon's Christmas song. Anyway, here is the list I made of my Two FerThursday songs. It is 50 Rock and Roll songs, because I made it an A-Z list, minus the X.

AC/DC - Back In Black - screaming rock at it's finest
Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap - when wasted we do sing along

Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer -like the lyrics
You Give Love A Bad Name - it rocks

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Looking Out My Back Door - Southern Rock?
Travelin' Band - took lessons from Little Richard, perhaps

Def Leppard - Rock of Ages - homage to rock & roll
Poor Some Sugar On Me - classic rock