Musikaliskt är jag inne i en 50- och 60-talsperiod just nu. Mitt behov av doa-körer syns omättligt, och allt som är inspelat efter Woodstock är ointressant för tillfället. En fråga bara: Varifrån kommer all denna fascination för sextonåringar?
Exempel: Johnny Burnette - You're sixteen (1960):
"Ooh, you come out of a dream, Peaches and cream, Lips like strawberry wine, You're sixteen, You're beautiful and you're mine. You're all ribbons and curls, Oh, what a girl! Eyes that twinkle and shine, You're sixteen, You're beautiful and you're mine. You're my baby, you're my pet, We fell in love on the night we met. "
Gillar särskilt "you're my baby, you're my pet"-biten.
The Crests - 16 candles (1958):
"You're only sixteen (sixteen) But you're my teenage queen (You're my queen) You're the prettiest, loveliest girl I've ever seen (I've ever seen, oh) Sixteen candles in my heart will glow For ever and ever for I love you so"
Chuck Berry - Sweet little sixteen (1958):
"Sweet Little Sixteen, she's got the grown up blues, tight dresses and lipstick, she's sportin' high heel shoes, oh but tomorrow morning, she'll have to change her trend, and be sweet sixteen, and back in class again"
Sam Cooke - Only sixteen (1959):
"She was only sixteen, only sixteen, With eyes that would glow, But she was too young to fall in love, And I was too young to know"
BB King - Sweet sixteen (1960):
"Baby, you were just sweet sixteen, You just left your home then, woman, Ah, the sweetest thing i'd ever seen, But you wouldn't do nothing, baby, You wouldn't do anything I asked to, You wouldn't do nothing for me, baby, You wouldn't do anything I asked to, You know you ran away from your home, baby, And now you wanna run away from old B too"
Neil Sedaka - Happy birthday sweet sixteen (1961):
"Tonight's the night I've waited for, Because you're not a baby anymore, You've turned into the prettiest girl I've ever seen, Happy birthday sweet sixteen, What happened to that funny face, My little tomboy now wears satin and lace, I can't believe my eyes you're just a teenage dream, Happy birthday sweet sixteen
When you were only six I was your big brother, Then when you were ten We didn't like each other, When you were thirteen You were my funny valentine, But since you've grown up Your future is sewn up, From now on you're gonna be mine, so, If I should smile with sweet surprise, It's just that you've grown up before my very eyes, You've turned into the prettiest girl I've ever seen, Happy birthday sweet sixteen"
Det här är bara ett axplock.
För att illustrera detta inlägg, vad kan vara bättre än det klassiska omslaget till singeln "Julie's sixteenth birthday" kanske det sorgligaste någonsin.