The 50s And 60s Was The Best Era For Music. Oh! Yes It Was!

Gia said:
Haha...Nancy...... you know what? SO WHAT! You play what YOU want to play - if you consider it to be jazz OR soul..... both are compatible, yes? :) You not worry for that... so what if we making a mistake... Boozer will not harm us.............................. I dont think so,? .....right Boo? ;)
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WHAT! ME HARM YOU or Nancy Gia?
I would sooner have my nuts roasted over a blow lamp! :sentimental:

Bobby Darin hey.
I just LOVED his records, particularly...


And great to jive to...

 
Gia said:
Hi Pinky! I am just catch up with the music - I have not been here too much..... This is GREAT - I love those PBS special where the old groups comes back to perform. :) NICE! They sound TERRIFIC! Thanks for post it for us.... "If you would on-ly see meeee nowwww..." :) xo da Gia
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Gia, I am a huge Soul and R&B fan. Love Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Ray Charles and on and on. Also Motown, which is what I grew up on.

I also love 'doo wop' (which some artist's don't like calling it). While working on the computer, I often am listening to that 2-part YouTube concert (Doo Wop 50, Volume 1 and 2). Wonderful original groups, and the best I've found of that sort of concert. Great backing orchestra/musicians, emcee'd by Jerry Butler. Top of the line video.

Hope you are keeping busy and well and happy!
hugs, Lil/Pinky
 

Hey Pinky.
Do you have Spotify?
You can use it free with some advertising or pay a fee for without.
I pay £10 a month for the best 320kbps quality, and I can download over 3.000 tracks to take out with me on my IPads, 'phone, etc.
Also on my IMac computer.
I feed it all to my very expensive HI FI and love playing whatever music.
I never play CDs now, even though I have hundreds.

Motown?
Now you're talking.

 
bc, you're looking at the world's last holdout when it comes to technology :playful:
My family has been trying to get me an iPhone, iPad, etc for years. I have used Spotify and have songs downloaded to a memory stick, but still use CD's in the car (just because I still have them, and until the next car has no CD player). Would you believe I'm running Vista, still? .. until it drops dead. Still love my widescreen!
 
fuzzybuddy said:
When you ask someone what their favorite musical eras was, you'll find out when they were a teenager. Let's see, I loved music from the early 60s to mid 60ish. That means I was about 13-14 in 1960.. Let's see 13 + 55 years since 1960= 68 Well, I was born in 1946, so I'm 69. BTW, you do know in 2055, PBS will be showing the all the old geezers from the 20teen music era, like Justin Beiber, for a pledge.
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Strange that, I was born in 1939 and have mainly moved on from this "Old hat" music, now finding it very boring, how does that work?
 
Anglophile said:
Strange that, I was born in 1939 and have mainly moved on from this "Old hat" music, now finding it very boring, how does that work?
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When our daughter was at home, I was exposed to whatever she was listening to, and liked most of it. Now that she's married, I'm not influenced by other types of music anymore. I keep drifting back to the Soul/R&B that I preferred growing up, as well as other genres from the 60's and 70's. I sometimes listen to the punk rock my daughter liked in high school.

YouTube has definitely opened up a big new world of music genres. I really like the music history documentaries.
 
Hi Pinky, appreciate people are different and like varied music which is fine with me. Remember my early music came to life as a young lad when Johnie Ray started the girl screaming craze. Followed by the film "Black Board Jungle" the music being "Rock Around the Clock" which really was great. Then Elvis kicked off and here in the UK it was Tommy Steel etc and some good groups, followed by the Beatles etc. Then as I moved on in life it was Glen Cambell, John Denver , Jack Jones and popular classics. And so it moved on, taste always changing and looking back I think how the heck did I like that.
At school the two great hits were Eamon Andrews singing "Shifting Whispering Sands " and Eartha Kitt singing "Monotonous" . Look them up on Utube and tell me they were not the worst songs ever recorded :D

Later in life for all the wrong reasons and romance I was dragged not screaming into Julio Inglasis , well we all need a little love and passion in life:D

Now anything new to my ears is great , even Lady Ga-Ga.
 
Anglophile said:
Hi Pinky, appreciate people are different and like varied music which is fine with me. Remember my early music came to life as a young lad when Johnie Ray started the girl screaming craze. Followed by the film "Black Board Jungle" the music being "Rock Around the Clock" which really was great. Then Elvis kicked off and here in the UK it was Tommy Steel etc and some good groups, followed by the Beatles etc. Then as I moved on in life it was Glen Cambell, John Denver , Jack Jones and popular classics. And so it moved on, taste always changing and looking back I think how the heck did I like that.
At school the two great hits were Eamon Andrews singing "Shifting Whispering Sands " and Eartha Kitt singing "Monotonous" . Look them up on Utube and tell me they were not the worst songs ever recorded :D

Later in life for all the wrong reasons and romance I was dragged not screaming into Julio Inglasis , well we all need a little love and passion in life:D

Now anything new to my ears is great , even Lady Ga-Ga.
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Cannot remember ever seeing Jack Jones mentioned on here--big favourite of mine--saill is-plus he is still touring Uk. I loved the RCA albums . I love all that era of music--noit much of todays music appeals to me--Adele sometimes
 
mariana said:
Cannot remember ever seeing Jack Jones mentioned on here--big favourite of mine--saill is-plus he is still touring Uk. I loved the RCA albums . I love all that era of music--noit much of todays music appeals to me--Adele sometimes
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Hi Mariana, Jack Jones how the girls loved that guy with his good looks and blue eyes. I preferred his girlfriend at the time, Susan George. Did see him in concert, front row right in front of him...eat your heart out:D:D

 
I have always loved music--started going to dances in the early sixties to the late sixties. Motown was big then got into Joplin, Hendrix, and others during that psychedelic period. My friends and I would often go to three dances a week. I still enjoy listening to music, it always puts me in a better mood. I've always loved Elvis and the Beatles, such massive talents, I wonder if anyone will ever surpass their careers--their music will last forever, it is iconic.

I also liked late 50's music--Fats Domino, Brenda Lee, Roy Orbison, Johnny Tilotson, Bobby Vinton yes, some of their songs crossed the decades into early 60's but it was a good time. Remember those old 45's? I actually still have a few, I'll have to show them to the grandchildren some day!
 
I remember a tiny, 45 player my brother and his wife had in their spare room when I stayed with them. This was the only record I would play, over, and over and over, LOL!

 
IMO, during this era, the best genre of music was Doo Wop. Doo Wop is one of those things that we often hear people say, "You either love it or you hate it." I am not a fan of acapella, which a lot of Doo Wop groups did back in the day to give it that authentic street corner sound. There are hundreds of Doo Wop groups and ten times that many songs. It was a great time to grow up in listening to "street corner" music, which came to be known as Doo Wop.

There was a Doo Wop thread on this site twice during my tenure here. Both times, I probably posted about 50 Doo Wop songs. I have approximately 700 on my computer. Check out the falsetto in the second song.


 
Actually I prefer the 70's music--more sophisticated rock
but for country, I like the 60's and 70's best.
The 80's country was also superb.
 
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