High as an Elephant's Eye

     Stalks of corn edged a front lawn in Massachusetts. An elderly passerby said, “The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye.”
     I had never heard that expression, so I looked it up. The sentence is a lyric from the song, 'Oh, What a Beautiful Morning' composed by Rogers and Hammerstein. It became famous in 1943.
      For several decades after World War II, music bound together Americans in one generation after another. Everybody listened to the radio. Everybody recognized hit songs. 
     Nowadays, music is no longer a unifying social force. Audiences have fragmented. Listening to the music on the radio—a shared experience—has been  supplanted by listening to custom playlists—a private experience.
     The expression, soundtracks of our lives no longer applies to all generations.