My Year of Turning 50

The majority of people who end up on this blog come by searching Google for turning 50 jokes. Every so often, I like to prowl around myself and look for old new ones (or is that new old ones) on the Internet. Through Boomer Chronicles blog, I stumbled upon Boomer Jokes. Seems to be a [...]

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It’s funny how the sounds of my youth come back in odd places. As we were having an after-movie dinner tonight in what passes for a malt shop in these fast-food times (Steak n Shake), I heard a familiar voice on the restaurant radio — Cousin Brucie. During my youth in the 1960s, Cousin Brucie [...]

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OK, yes, I am THAT baby boomer, whose musical tastes (at times) are stuck somewhere in the early 1970s. I downloaded the new, remastered compilation of Led Zeppelin hits last night from iTunes. Called Mothership, it’s 24 of the songs I grew up on as a teenager, though I did have to download one of [...]

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I went to a wedding yesterday. Always good when I at least am younger than the parents of the bride and groom…TV Land today is showing a bunch of Leave it to Beaver shows, in honor of its 50th anniversary…Bruce Springsteen — age 58! — was on 60 Minutes tonight. It’s been 32 years since [...]

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Noticed while on iTunes the other night that Apple has gathering songs by year in its “iTunes Essentials” category. It’s a great way to find songs by year, and buy them to use in your tribute for someone turning 50 years old. What’s almost as much fun are the year-by-year facts iTunes includes, both about [...]

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Wednesday (Sept. 26) marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of West Side Story on Broadway. I did the show in high school, playing a Jet called Mouthpiece, which seemed a funny name since I had few lines. (I went to an all boys high school, Cardinal Hayes in the Bronx, and we brought in [...]

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I ran a post recently with the YouTube video of “Done Got Old“, which made me think about some other songs about aging that could be used for a slideshow or roast for a baby boomer turning 50 years old. There are a couple of obvious ones — The Beatles’ “When I’m Sixty-Four,” or Frank [...]

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I’ve been thinking some about songs appropriate for turning 50 (hey, it’s not all about jokes!). My favorite is Buddy Guy’s version of “Done Got Old.” I could see someone using part of it in a video tribute, or buy it in iTunes and lay it under a slideshow of the person turning 50 for [...]

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Someone found this blog by searching “turning 50 jokes.” Boy, was he disappointed…recently all my pants have shrunk, which either says something about my laundry skills or eating habits…I wish I could remember all the words to the song “16 Tons,” which oddly is something we’ve sung to ABC since she was a baby…I’m another [...]

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