Well... Maybe your favourite song by then was «If I were a rich man»... And you spent your time fighting for it. That could be the answer that you are looking for.
"My mom would sing in the kitchen, how I learned the music she loved, even went to the history of All Jolson, and Glenn Miller", she loved the Beatles",!!!!
The seniors at my high school used to stand around the jukebox and sing along with the 4 Aces at our dances after the football or basketball games and they try and sound like the 4 Aces. This was 1951.