"I've Heard That Song Before"

I was just looking over the list of Academy Award winning songs and was thinking about a few things. There are over seventy years of musical history there, and I can sing most of them. Not the whole thing, my memory is terrible and does not often extend to verses, but I can at least sing most of the chorus or maybe hum a little bit. These are great songs I would want to pass on to my kids.

Go here now and look them over.

Even in the first block you should know at least 3 of them. Hell, two are gimmes. Are you going to teach your children Somewhere Over the Rainbow? Of course you are. Will people still be dancing to The Way You Look Tonight at weddings when we are Grandparents? Yes. Look over the next two blocks, the Forties and the Fifties. I dare you not to smile. Mona Lisa? Zip a Dee Doo Dah? High Hopes? All great.

I could do this for almost every era. Great songs are timeless, and most of these songs will stay in our National conscious for years to come.

Then I came to the last block. I think you know where I'm going here. How am I supposed to sing Hard Out Here for a Pimp to my kids? Can anyone out there tell me any of the lyrics to Into the West without looking them up? How about "I Need to Wake Up"? We are about halfway through 2007, can anyone name a Original song from a movie that came out this year that you can sing?

OK done with the rant. Everything has high and low points. Let's just home the Academy Awards have more in common with the Yankees than the Red Sox.