For every song there is a story. And for every story there was a song. The music we grew up on, marked all our firsts; first date, first kiss, first love, first time out on our own. This is the music that still brings a catch to our throats. This small volume brings back some of that music for those of us who still recall it, fewer of us each day. Even better, it passes those great melodies and lyrics on to the very few who don't remember them, but wish they did. Those very few deserve to have that legacy sent their way. Stories and songs that define them. Stories of hopes, dreams, love and loss, aspirations and second chances. Stories set in days when America didn't need to be made great again, America was great and always had been great. These are the stories that mattered to the generations that really mattered, the generations that built and defended, strived and persevered. Some of the tales in this volume are new, never published. Ohers are adapted from chapters of published works which could be seamlessly linked to an appropriate lyric. Those adapted tales are designated in the copywrite page in order to give the reader a reference if they want more of those characters. Hopefully they will help another generation to rise up and matter, really, traditionally, matter. Twenty-one anecdotal short stories, a novelette and two novellas, taken from various periods over the past seventy years of fantastic music. The stories that remind us, don't you forget about me.