Week 5 Blog Post

 

Week Five

Bradley Nelsen

            Sh-Boom

      The Chords

                    The Chord's version of Sh-Boom is probably one of the more popular tracks selected by students for their blog. I will be hoping onto this tradition as well, In an attempt to share some of the nostolgia behind this track for me, and possibly some of the nostolgia felt for the people listening to it for the first time in 1954. Sh-boom was a doo-wop, R&B song that was released right as that style of music was beggining to die down and right as Rock and Roll was beggining to rear its head for the first time. But for the dedicated listeners of R&B Sh-boom by the chords was an excellent call back to the genra at its finest. This song was later revived in 2006 by one of our favorite cartoon films Cars. Hearing this song in college after the movie being one of my favorite childhood memories was very nostolgic even for me, someone who's parents weren't even born during the original release of the song. Sh-boom is an excelent example for nostolgia in past generations, and to an extent even ours, and even though music comes and goes out of style, a good song will always remain as such, even if the genra isn't what is "in"





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  1. haileeFebruary 14, 2022 at 9:31 PM

    I totally agree that this song will always be loved by many because of the nostalgia effect that it has. I think that this song would still have this effect even if it wasn't in Cars. It's one of the classics from its time I think. Listening to this song in class was so fun and it really made me want to go watch Cars again because it was one of my favorite childhood movies as well.

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