Old Music

MountainDon · January 11, 2009, 12:38:08 AM

There was/is a New Music topic. I'm sitting here tonight With No Particular Place to Go, sorting through boxes and boxes of cassette tapes and CD's. Some of the tapes go back quite a ways, some are tapes I made from 45's and vinyl 33's. Some CD's are reissues, some are ones I burned... remember the old Napster and WinMx?

Anyhow I'm playing old Rock & Roll Music; Chuck Berry is Reelin' & Rockin' at present. Jerry Lee Lewis is waiting in the wings. Carl Perkins, Little Richard and Buddy Holly all had their turn earlier.

This could take months...

What a different time... suits and ties

muldoon · January 11, 2009, 01:26:11 AM

January 11, 2009, 03:07:03 AM

Poor memory. I had Fats Domino 45's. Wonder what he'd be called today; not exactly PC to be called Fats.

Bill Haley - Rock Around The Clock (1956)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5fsqYctXgM&feature=PlayList&p=1B8B49752F852448&playnext=1&index=14

Gene Vincent - Be-Bop-A-Lula
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDU9FP5_B2M&feature=related

Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On (1957)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yRdDnrB5kM&feature=related

Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0YUA3yTUss&NR=1
We saw Chuck Berry in concert when he was about 70. Amazing. Moved a little slower but was still good.

Ditto for Little Richard...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdfUfG6wdaQ&feature=related

This was all brought on by the tile floor job... had to move everything.
I haven't even peeked into the old big band and jazz corner.

Woody Herman, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie... before my time but great music

And the only modern day Big Band I know of; Brian Setzer. Big Band with a Rockabilly flavor.
Dirty Boogie... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOabXKpDfmk&feature=related
Rock This Town... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0FlWrd6dSQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He8F_GP_tcQ
They put on a great show too. Well worth seeing live if you get the chance
Setzer also plays with a small group... The Stray Cats
He / his group always seems to be having fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggN-HKq3FG8&feature=related

It's past bedtime but I'm too wide awake....

But one last post...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MwdQQ1cF48&feature=related
Strange this isn't old, but it feels old

muldoon · January 11, 2009, 05:53:31 PM

Quote from: MountainDon on January 11, 2009, 03:07:03 AM
Poor memory. I had Fats Domino 45's. Wonder what he'd be called today; not exactly PC to be called Fats.

He is still around these days, he lives in Lousiana and still goes by Fats. This is his office taken in June 2007.

Minicup28 · January 11, 2009, 09:01:08 PM

I saw Fats @ the Sunset Rollerama in Tucson, AZ about '62-'63 for a buck. He came by with a piano in the back of a pickup and offered to play after skating. He pounded the keys so hard that the old aluminum mike on top kept sliding down the piano and he would sweep it back like a "carriage return." Those were the days!

January 11, 2009, 09:18:30 PM

BB King - saw him in concert when I was 19 - I thought he was old then...

StinkerBell · January 12, 2009, 07:30:52 PM

The music listed in this thread has been classified as "The Oldies"...I recall being in Anchorage new to the area flipping through the radio stations trying to find what I like, "Classic Rock" Well I heard some catch phrase about this channel being the best Oldie Station and was curious. Then I heard Led Zep, then Boston. I started screaming Nooooooooo, my mother listens to Oldies I listen to classic rock, I am not my mother!

Homegrown Tomatoes · January 12, 2009, 10:21:13 PM

I was listening to the Beatles on the radio in the truck the other day and when the song finished, my oldest piped up from the back seat, "Mom, if she's got a chicken to ride, why doesn't she care?" I laughed until my sides hurt.

Then, a few days later, "What's Your Name?" was playing and my second daughter was singing along and when it got to the end where the back-up lyrics say "Shoo-be-doo-ba-ba-ba." My daughter says, "What a dorky name. Who'd name their kid Shoobydoobababa?" I looked in the mirror to see if she was trying to be funny, and there she was in all her four-year-old seriousness.

I like Oldies because that's about all my mom listened to when I was a kid. My dad listened to country, so I also know just about any country song written pre-1990 as well as a few since then. However, I prefer big band jazz and bluegrass. My grandma and I could actually connect on this point when I was a kid (because nothing else I ever did or liked was worth her approval) but when I'd come in the kitchen singing something by the Andrews Sisters, I was her favorite granddaughter momentarily. I have never listened to ANY of the music that was popular for my own generation, so as a result I am kind of culturally illiterate in that regard.

Ernest T. Bass · January 12, 2009, 11:16:44 PM

We like oldies too... My dad learned to play the guitar so he could do Beatles tunes..

Only modern artists we like are Christian. Phil Keaggy, Smalltown Poets and a few Stellar Kart songs for the most part.

Phil Keaggy: (<-- No option here, you MUST watch. Especially if you play guitar.

)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKC_c79knpE

Smalltown Poets:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtprxDGiye4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-HrQsmcjM0

Stellar Kart:
http://www.clevver.com/music/video/28437/stellar-kart-life-is-good--video.html

January 13, 2009, 10:11:06 AM

Quote from: Homegrown Tomatoes on January 12, 2009, 10:21:13 PM
I was listening to the Beatles on the radio in the truck the other day and when the song finished, my oldest piped up from the back seat, "Mom, if she's got a chicken to ride, why doesn't she care?" I laughed until my sides hurt.

Then, a few days later, "What's Your Name?" was playing and my second daughter was singing along and when it got to the end where the back-up lyrics say "Shoo-be-doo-ba-ba-ba." My daughter says, "What a dorky name. Who'd name their kid Shoobydoobababa?" I looked in the mirror to see if she was trying to be funny, and there she was in all her four-year-old seriousness.

I like Oldies because that's about all my mom listened to when I was a kid. My dad listened to country, so I also know just about any country song written pre-1990 as well as a few since then. However, I prefer big band jazz and bluegrass. My grandma and I could actually connect on this point when I was a kid (because nothing else I ever did or liked was worth her approval) but when I'd come in the kitchen singing something by the Andrews Sisters, I was her favorite granddaughter momentarily. I have never listened to ANY of the music that was popular for my own generation, so as a result I am kind of culturally illiterate in that regard.

OK, so Ernest T. reminded me that there is SOME more current music that I do listen to. I listen to Christian radio quite a bit, but I usually listen to Christian talk radio and there's not as much music on there. DH listens to the Christian music stations, so when I'm in his car, I listen to it.

Jens · January 13, 2009, 10:12:25 AM

I started listening to oldies when I was 9, and found a Chuck Berry tape. At that time, Back to the Future had just started being played on TV, and I was all about Johnny B Good. I went to camp that summer, and wouldn't stop singing it! My camp counselor, Gizmo, made a 2 hour oldies mix tape for me. That introduced me to Del Vikings, Buddy Holly, the Platters, the Drifters, and oh so many more who came before the Beatles. Doo Wop has always been a favorite of mine, as has real rock n roll like Jerry, Chuck, Elvis, Carl, Eddie. The Beach Boys worked there way in there, growing up in a surfing town.

I can remember being pulled over in my flamed convertible, as I left the pool hall at 2 in the morning. I had an Elvis tape playing, think the song was Lawdy Miss Clawdy. I couldn't hear the cop, and as I reached for the dial I said, "give it a rest King". The cop thought I was talking to him! "No, Elvis" I said as I pointed at the radio. He kinda cracked a smile. He just wanted to catch a drunk, but I was only 17, and didn't drink. He let me go.

On Sundays, back before we went to church, we would put on a Jerry Lee Lewis gospel record, and crank it up while we reclined in the sun on our deck. That was our church. Mahalia Jackson would follow.

Being only 29 now, I find it a little creepy when I hear songs that came out when I was a kid being played on the "oldies" channels. I guess that's what happens when you start to get older.

Our wedding song (first dance), was Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye, by the Casinos. It has always been one of my favorites.

I heard a Sun Records anthology years ago. It was awesome! Had songs like Flying Saucer Rock and Roll, Milk Cow, and others by little remembered artists.

Don't forget Gene Vincent, and his Blue Caps! Or Bill Haley and the Comets.

Ernest T. Bass · January 15, 2009, 12:18:33 AM

Nobody commented on Phil Keaggy....

Yeah, I'll admit it's a thread-drift, but isn't he incredible? Or am I just easily amused?

muldoon · January 15, 2009, 12:37:21 AM

I missed the comment earlier but checked out the Phil Keaggy video just now.
wow, he reminds me of rush - all by himself.
I love his technique - it just flows right through him.

Ernest T. Bass · January 15, 2009, 12:52:26 AM

Yeah, he's really creative with his tools... Gets his money's worth outa that "Jam Man" looper.

Wouldn't it be nice to have that much freedom through an instrument? Seems like it would be a great outlet for frustration and pent-up emotions, to just be able to let it out so easily... It's no fair. People shouldn't go hogging talents like that.

January 15, 2009, 03:05:23 AM

Andrew, I used to listen to him years ago - had at least a couple tapes of him - last pic I saw of him, seems he had long hair! Isn't his wife's name Cheryl? She sings, also...

Ernest T. Bass · January 15, 2009, 10:37:11 AM

Um, I haven't seem any real recent pix, but I can't say I've seen him with long hair...

He's a pretty old guy now.

Sassy · January 15, 2009, 02:07:26 PM

Quote from: Ernest T. Bass on January 15, 2009, 10:37:11 AM
Um, I haven't seem any real recent pix, but I can't say I've seen him with long hair... He's a pretty old guy now.

guess he might be a close to my age - just a youngster

I may be wrong, but he started singing during the early 70's IIRC during the "Jesus Movement" time - so did Barry McGuire (Dawn of Destruction) & another mainstream musician/singer of whom I can't remember the name, of course. We had a Christian coffee house called the Agape House that a bunch of us new believers started - we had adult couples who over-saw it - every Friday night we had bands or speakers - Barry McGuire & the other one whom I still can't remember the name sang - they were new believers, also. This was just in a little town of around 25,000. We had a great time with Bible studies, just hanging out...

In the town next to there, when I was in highschool (60's), the American Legion Hall had bands come in every Saturday night for dances - the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Jay & the Americans, Santana, Chad & Jeremy, Quicksilver Messenger Service... gee, I'm having to pull these out of the recesses of my brain! I saw the Dave Clark 5 in Sacramento when I was 12 I think (that's when the Beatles 1st came out - they sounded a lot like the Beatles - really irritated me though - all the girls were screaming & standing on the seats & I could hardly hear or see them

) & Iron Butterfly in Fresno, also Tower of Power. That's back when it didn't cost an arm & a leg to go & they also weren't real wild - I'd be afraid to go to a concert now. Oh, I heard Eric Burdon & War at Bill Grahams Filmore West - it was really good but I felt so sorry for Eric Burdon - he seemed like such a lost soul up there with his bottle of booze...

A few years ago I took my son & some of his friends to hear Jeremy Camp, Rebecca St James & the Newsboys in Fresno - great concert! That was the year when Jeremy Camp got best new Christian artist of the year. (sorry, those aren't really oldies).

BTW, have you ever listened to Phil Driscoll? I 1st heard him in Washington state in the 70's - I didn't really like trumpet playing that much, but after hearing him play, I was hooked.

glenn kangiser · January 16, 2009, 01:09:34 AM

Yeah --- a real old guy, Andrew --- must be in his 50's but still good like most old guys.

Old is relative isn't it? How about Marshall Tucker Band from Spartanburg, SC?

Not old enough? Louis Armstrong?

Happy Trails to you.... Roy Rogers and Dale Evans?

MountainDon · January 16, 2009, 01:36:38 AM

Quote from: glenn kangiser on January 16, 2009, 01:09:34 AM
.... Roy Rogers and Dale Evans?

Gene Autry. Gads! I haven't heard or thought of those names in a while.

More old music... Tonight was big band and swing night; Woody Herman, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Billie Holiday, Jack Teagarden, Bix Beiderbecke and finally, right now, I somehow found myself with some Stéphane Grappelli.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyGFuUVivjo

Sassy · January 16, 2009, 02:45:35 PM

How 'bout "How much is that doggie in the window"? Or "Que sera sera" or better yet, "Hot diggity, dog diggity, boom what you do to me" by Perry Como! Those were some of the songs I used to hear on the radio when I was little

- used to sing them all the time... or my mom would have classical music on.

glenn kangiser · January 16, 2009, 04:28:53 PM

Perry what? Yo habla un poco espanol. hmm