Recommended Western music for women in their 50s: world classics and popular songs
I’ve put together a collection of Western songs beloved by nostalgic women in their 50s!
These tracks have been featured on TV shows and commercials, and covered by many artists, so even younger generations have probably heard them at least once.
So nostalgic!I used to listen to these all the time!
You can almost hear people saying that, can’t you?
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Recommended Western music for women in their 50s: World classics and popular songs (61–70)
HolidayMadonna
“Holiday” is a single released in 1983 by American singer/actress Madonna.
From start to finish, it’s a happy song that powerfully belts out, “Take a holiday! Celebrate! Release the pressure! Let’s all be happy!”—and gets you dancing nonstop.
It’s also a perfect track for dancing on a summer beach.
Get It Up For LoveNed Doheny
“Get Up for Love” is a track from the AOR masterpiece Hard Candy, known in Japan as “Koi wa Maboroshi” (“Love Is an Illusion”).
The album cover features Doheny taking a shower on a midsummer beach set in California, overflowing with a summery vibe.
The song itself is a slightly wistful ballad.
Released in 1976.
Notably, this song was covered by Tokyo Jihen.
Love Will Find A WayPablo Cruise
Pablo Cruise is a band that gained popularity with surf rock in the late 1970s.
They debuted in 1975, and their 1977 album “A Place in the Sun” was a hit.
“Love Will Find a Way,” released as a single in 1978, is one of their signature songs.
It’s a refreshing track that evokes the breeze of the American West Coast.
A Summer PlacePercy Faith
“Theme from A Summer Place” is the theme song from the 1959 film A Summer Place.
As the film’s title suggests, it’s an instrumental number that evokes that very impression.
It’s the kind of piece that conjures the image of a woman standing by a lakeside, wearing a demure one-piece dress with an elegant summer knit cardigan draped over her shoulders.
The performer, Percy Faith, is a composer who represents the easy listening genre.
All Summer LongThe Beach Boys
“All Summer Long” is a song included on the Beach Boys’ 1964 album of the same name.
It’s a track imbued with a feeling akin to a prayer that summer will go on forever—the wish that the summer of that year, filled with so many memories, would never end.
Don’t Worry BabyVapour Trails
“Surfside Freeway” (Don’t Worry Baby) is a song that pretty much any longtime Western pop fan probably knows.
It’s the theme song for Best Hit USA, the music program hosted by Katsuya Kobayashi.
Vapor Trails is a band of three studio musicians from the UK.
The track is an AOR song with a full-on summer vibe, included on the only album they ever released.
Catch the windDonovan
It’s Donovan’s debut single, released after his third television appearance in the UK.
It features a sound driven by harmonica and acoustic guitar.
In the United States, the track was used in TV commercials for Volvo and General Electric.