Doo-Wop

From pinterest.com

 

streetcorner sultans

lift harmonies

over the tenement transom

returning the reverb

they pray earns them fame

their signature sound

 

Falsetto

“Street Corner”
Painter Unknown
From houzz.com

vocal artifice
turning starward the tenor
with streetcorner roots

Twilight Time

The Platters
Photo from last.fm

In a nostalgic vein, give me the song lyrics of old. Corny? Syrupy? Perhaps, but then again, so am I. You can have the modern stuff. But what else would you expect from an old guy like me?

“Twilight Time” was originally recorded in 1944 by The Three Suns, but it was the splendid 1958 version by The Platters that remains among the cherished slow-dance anthems of my youth.

When a nice poem meets up with nice music, magic happens. Something great is created. And it deeply imprints you. Fifty-five years have passed since I first heard this song’s haunting tones through my bedstand radio, and I still remember every word.  Yet, I can’t remember poems I wrote myself just last week. Another sign of old age, I suppose.

I hope these lyrics ring a chord in you, too. I don’t know how to use YouTube or insert audio things, but I encourage you to seek it out.

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Twilight Time (lyrics by Buck Ram)

Heavenly shades of night are falling, it’s twilight time

Out of the mist your voice is calling, ’tis twilight time

When purple-colored curtains mark the end of day

I’ll hear you, my dear, at twilight time

Deepening shadows gather splendor as day is done

Fingers of night will soon surrender the setting sun

I count the moments darling till you’re here with me

Together at last at twilight time

Here, in the afterglow of day, we keep our rendezvous beneath the blue

And, in the same and sweet old way I fall in love again as I did then

Deep in the dark your kiss will thrill me like days of old

Lighting the spark of love that fills me with dreams untold

Each day I pray for evening just to be with you

Together at last at twilight time

Here, in the afterglow of day, we keep our rendezvous beneath the blue

And, in the same and sweet old way I fall in love again as I did then

Deep in the dark your kiss will thrill me like days of old

Lighting the spark of love that fills me with dreams untold

Each day I pray for evening just to be with you

Together at last at twilight time

Together at last at twilight time