Andy 60s Music: Sippin' Soda, Singing The Blues, Heartaches... 50's Guy Mitchell

Singapore scene in the 50's.

A 'Milk Bar' Or 'Restaurant' in town.

Singaporeans call them 'cold drinks'.

In the US they are 'sodas'.

Th3ee songs by a guy called, Guy Mitchell, that combine to create a neat love theme.

In 1950's Singapore, when there were well-known drink shops selling cold, sweet, fizzy beverage and coffee, tea and ice-cream like A&W, Magnolia Snack Bars and Ice Cream Parlours, the U.S. had what they called, soda shops selling the same.

A song, weaving around these items, became an instant hit when teens those years heard it. Sippin' Soda, simple and sophisticated topped the charts with Guy Mitchell describing his instance with:

The prettiest girl I ever saw

Was sippin' soda through a straw

I asked her what she sat there for

Just sippin' soda through a straw

So they became friends and he described the happy ending with the young lady:

I held her hand and she held mine

We sipped and sipped and sipped some more

This is the end, there is no more

Of sippin' soda through a straw.

We knew the chorus well.

Sippin' Soda by Guy Mitchell. 

YouTube Video by Gray Eyes123

So you win some or lose some. After a few dates you say your goodbyes and stay...

 

Guy Mitchell

...at home listening to the radio.

Remembering those years in the mid-fifties, when I was only a teen and listening on my dad's radio, a song kept me glued to the loudspeaker. What else was there to do? 😆 

Fascinated, I faintly heard the title, but it was one of the first few songs that I loved and kept singing it all these years. Yes, a swinging song but it did keep my blues away...

Guy Mitchell: "Singing The Blues" 

on The Ed Sullivan Show. 

YouTube from: The Ed Sullivan Show. 

So, if you had a girlfriend then and she left you later, there is also a song to get you by:

Guy Mitchell: Heartaches By The Number.

YouTube Video By: John1948FiveE

That's how teens and those in their 20s, 30s and 40s pass some of their free time in the 1950's and beyond folks. No mobile phones though.

This building had a Milk Bar called, Wonderland and was situated next to the now non-existent Roxy Cinema at East Coast Road. On the ground floor was the DBS Bank. Many young ones spent their day having meals and drinks at the Wonderland.