The Skorpion ambled into this life the week that "I Want to Be Wanted" by Brenda Lee topped the U.S. charts.

Got my first boy kiss with "The Great Pretender" playing in the background. I think you had to be a "Hit Parade" watcher for a couple of the earliest songs, but I remember all so far. It is still playing in the background. Haven't thought of some of the songs for years and a few took me right back to exactly how I was feeling in 7th, 8th, 9th grade when boys became the most interesting subject in my life to study.

I've been alive through all of these (born in '53) and remember most of up them (except for a few in the early 70s when I was down in Central America) until we hit the end of the 70s. At that point I apparently started listing to the radio a lot less, because my recognition rate drops steadily through 1992 (when the 2nd MP3 ends).

Thanks for posting these; they're great. I've linked her on Facebook as well as sent a link to here out to quite a few friends via e-mail.

I still haven't hit the 1970s yet, 'cause it's still hit-or-miss . . .

My car stereo has a feature like this when the iPod is hooked up. You hit ZAP and it plays a five second grab from a random song on the iPod. If you like the song, hit a button and the song starts from the beginning, if not, it just plays another snippet. Sometimes I just let it keep zapping.

Born sixty years and three days ago. Grew up in the Golden Age of Rock n'Roll.

My ENTIRE LIFE in an hour and a quarter!

Long live Sirius Radio Channels 5 and 6!

Where do you come in?

Same place as you, Gerard. I was 11 years old in January of 1956... and I remember all of these, as well.

Every parent's nightmare is finding out that he's paying through the ass so that his kid can take the equivalent of "an American Studies course at the University of Maryland called 'Popular Music in American Society.'"

I'm with you on this. I graduated from high school in 1955. Wonderful times. (No matter what the nay sayers preach.)

Dang! This is sa-weet!

I should have done this with my Motown Review. Would have saved a boatload of bandwidth.

There are one or two that I missed. No big loss - I have more memories of music to replay inside my head whenever I want I graduated high school in 1954. There were more interesting songs before the Hit Parade and the teen-age culture was invented.