PERRY, GA (Day 5).   Today was much like yesterday except it ended with a concert by three groups who have reprised the songs of the Coasters, the Platters, and the Drifters from the 1950s and 1960s.  It is getting harder and harder for me to believe those years ever happened.  Things have changed so much and for the worse.  Hearing the old songs not only quickens memories, it transfixes you in time as if you were back there, remembering what you were doing and thinking as you heard the sounds long ago.  Perceptions of love and romance were nearly sacred back then.  We watched couples get up to dance, doing their best to perform the moves of their high school years as well as their aging bodies could afford.

The performers noted that we could understand what they were saying (unlike performers today), that no curse words were said in the songs, and their pants were not falling down, all references to how things have changed.  It is nice to see that these younger performers were seeing this and bringing back the music of a more wholesome time.  Hopefully not merely aging baby boomers are paying attention.