From my teenage years I had and still have a favorite song, the name of it is “Tell Laura I Love Her” by Ray Peterson. The reason I like this song is because it is a sad song but the music is so relaxing and he lyrics go so well with the instrumental part. The song is about a young couple named Laura and Tommy, that are madly in love with each other and he wanted to enter a stock car race so that he could try to win a $1000. But this is a very sad song because he tried to call her to tell her that he was going to be late and had to leave a message with her mother that he wanted to enter a stock car race and that he would be late.
In the song he raced his stock car but something happened and he crashed which was very sad because he never go to speak to Laura again. The stereotype in this song would be the young teenage kids think that there is nothing between the love for one another and death. It does not matter to them how dangerous something is they will do it if it shows that special person how much they love each other. Tommy raced his car to just to get enough money to get Laura to make one thousand dollars. And Laura will never see him again and will have to find another man but if this was her first love the next one will never be the same as Tommy.
In the 1970’s all teenagers wanted the coolest and fastest car just so that the girls would go out with them. And I was one of them. If a guy did not have a cool car like a Chevy Camaro then the girls did not want anything to do with them unless they were a great athlete. And Tommy was one of the guys with a cool car so Laura followed her love except this time she was not home to take the phone call from him and could not see his last race. When I was a teenager this was the kind of music that we listened.
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