It is interesting that Bob capitalized Romance....
This may surprise you, my children and grandchildren that I lived (grew up) in the age of romance and was part of it too.
Yes, I was a romantic fellow. I knew all the love ballads of the 30's and 40's. After that time, songs changed and lost some of the tenderness and sweetness that marked those songs of my youth.
I grew up in an atmosphere of the boy-girl relationships. Being the youngest of six children, four of which were girls who bought sheet music of all the latest love songs. We had no radio but we did have a piano. The words and music were soon learned by every child and teenager. Movies had several songs written for their production even though they were not musicals themselves. Many such songs became hits. Later they were put on records and sold so that everyone knew them.
Operetta were part of high school experience even grade schools had their own productions. (I was in several)
My sisters worked during summer vacation at Russel's Point as waitresses. Russel's Point was then advertised as Ohio's playground located on Indian Lake just five mile from Huntsville Ohio. It had two dance pavilions, hotels etc. It was one of the stops for all the big name dance bands of that time. As a small boy, I was there when Rudy Vallee and his band was on tour. My sisters sent their washing home each week and my mother did it up and we returned it generally on Saturday night. Sometime was spent taking it all in.
Later at about 11 I and friends occasionally found our way to Indian Lake and soaked in the glamour and glitter of the sights and sounds of the middle 30's. At eighteen and until I married at 25 my Saturday nights were often spent (there).
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