The Statler Brothers - Child of the Fifties

Lyrics:

I grew up a child of the 50s
Learned to dance to the beat of rock and roll
Television was my friend
I Love Lucy, Rin Tin Tin
Kissed my first girl when I was 10 years old.

Took a turn for the worse in the 60s
Saw some real people die on TV
I learned love's hard cold facts
Paid my first income tax
One small step for the man I'm gonna be.

Chorus:
I'll never feel bad 'bout the times that we had
I'll never look back in regret
The heaven you gave I will treasure and save
'Cause it might be as close as I get.

The 70s were 10 years of reruns
News of Watergate was nothin' new
The Democrats got it, we fell in love again
When Elvis died, we all knew that we could too.

Now I'm facin' the most of the 80s
Old enough to run for President
It's hard to think it's me, the father of three
Oh America, I don't know where it went.

Chorus:
I'll never feel bad 'bout the times that we had
I'll never look back in regret
The heaven you gave I will treasure and save
'Cause it might be as close as I get.

The heaven you gave I will treasure and save
'Cause it might be as close as I get...

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• Fifties

[faronfan]

Wrong picture! Jimmy Fortune , on the left, is not singing on this song. The late Lew DeWitt is. Love the Statler Brothers..thanks for posting!

[packfan1999]

I put this picture up because it was the CD that I got the song from.

[faronfan]

The part that begins, "The 70's were 10 years of reruns" is the stanza LEW DEWITT is singing. Jimmy and Lew have very distinct voices.

[mssandy90]

I have to disagree with you. They were all great singers. There harmony and talent will never be matched. Lew just had a unique tenor voice. But I think Phil was the glue that made them all sound great. Don was the best lead singer ever. I guess this shows I was a huge fan of the Statlers. Guess we should not compare Lew and Jimmy because they were both great tenors in their own way. .

[mfdesq]

@mssandy90

Depends on your tastes. Jimmy was by FAR the most talented singer in the Statler line-up. His voice was so much better than Lew's it was ridiculous. Lew was the most talented singer of the original group. The rest had little vocal talent (though Harold was a brilliant comic & Don was a wonderful song writer).

That being said, I liked the lineup with Lew a bit better, primarily b/c I liked Lew's preference for 40s-50s standards and rockabilly better than Jimmy's slow ballads.

[arkyron1947]

"When Elvis died we knew we would too" The Statlers knew how we felt. They sang about real life of the 50s generation.

[JimmyWyatt4931]

Anybody have one called "The Kids Last Fight" off of their 10th Anniversary Album?

[davidbouns]

I have this same cd. It has both Lew And Jimmy from different times. The cover is misleading, however it is Lew in this song.

[34Packardphaeton]

This IS, without the least doubt, THE quintessential song for the aging EARLY baby boomers, of which I am one. No, my life wasn't like the one they describe; but the events and things they mention about the decades since, do indeed succinctly do

the whole "theme" justice, IMO.

[mammie64]

oh what wonderful memories I have being a teenager in the 50's love this song!

[DaveWollenberg]

HIt #17 in Billboard, 1-8-83. God bless y'all, Statlers!

[imdmpimdmp]

Lew and Jimmy were/ are very great tenors .... each had/have a very distinct voice and I could pick either voice out of a million singers

[davavill]

This song reminds me of my parents. Daddy 1938, Mommy 1940. they love the Statlers and so do I.