oldies fans (songs from 1969 and prior)?

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the first songs i listened to were oldies. when i was a child my dad had a 4-record set called "The History of Rhythm and Blues" that really spoke deeply to my soul. he won the record set in a musical knowledge contest on the radio, and i listened to those records obsessively.

later on i got heavily into Doo-Wop and such, and i listened to oldies stations on the radio. really, i like stuff that spans back to ragtime, but my faves are mostly 1950 to 1964. this one has always been close the top of my list of favourite oldies:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtTC3pGBjs4[/youtube]


any other fans out there (*crosses fingers that i am not alone*)? feel free to post Youtube videos if you like. The Kinks are welcome too!! !

I cast the first vote! I could cry with joy.

you did! thanks for visiting my thread (i was really worried about tumbleweeds and crickets). do you have a favourite old song?

I like a lot of oldies. I spent several months listening to almost nothing but Glenn Miller Orchestra. I also like Billy Holiday and a lot of artists from that era. As a rule I tend to prefer music made by bands that existed pre-1990 with some notable exceptions. Though I do appreciate talent even if I don't personally like the music

Too many to list. I like this one and I haven't listened to it for a while.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN3GbF9Bx6E[/youtube]

another visitor!! ! what is one of your faves?



(and blitzkrieg i love The Mamas & The Papas!)

mememeeee!
my first cassette was a 'Jive bunny' one when i was about 7 haha. i was excited to get my first walkman so played it quite a lot. and i lived with my nan so heard a lot of 50-60s stuff in general. then when i was older i got into doowop and vocal groups like The four Seasons or Dion & the Belmonts. oh and i used to watch the film Hairspray over&over, which has an awesome soundtrack imo. so yeah, i like old stuff

i'll be back later...

The Mamas & The Papas are great!

Here is a song I am quite fond of at the moment, as I'm reading some World War II history books and this song is inspired by the many young men who had to leave their lover behind for the war:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Qx4Y_hUuE[/youtube]

Hopefully this isn't "too old"
Nowadays on a local classic rock station, 90s music is considered old

Well, for me, it's a complex issue. When I was younger, you see, my family was trying to be all fundamental Baptist. So, what my parents, I think actually mostly my mother looking back, determined, was that all modern music was bad. So, what happened was, my parents didn't like, gently encourage us kids to listen to "oldies" but it was the only music we were allowed besides non-rock Protestant Christian music. So, the only music I had growing up until like age 11 or so, was oldies. Then when my parents got divorced, my mother to get us decided to basically let us listen to whatever we wanted, sorta blaming it on my dad.

Mind you, my dad isn't a hip young happening individual, but he had much broader musical tastes than my mother. My father, he listened to lots of funk type music, and another "oldies" station was competing with the main "oldies" station in CT. However, this oldies station basically played more, well, music made by black people, and it went into the 80s, whereas the other oldies station went into the early 70s, and just played pop music of that era mostly. I completely LOVED that station. But then it changed formats to play stupid rap music and newer R&B.

So, yeah, what happened was, I discovered classic rock, I liked it when I was younger, but I more or less grew out of it. Basically, right now, I find it hard to listen to most oldies songs from the 50s to the 60s, especially the popular ones, as it was forced upon me. Also, it made me incredibly socially awkward, as I had NO idea of any other music out besides oldies due to my parents forcefeeding us oldies. Also, a similar situation happened with television, my parents would more or less give us no choice but to watch older TV shows, like nick at nite type stuff. So yeah, what happened was, as a teenager, I obviously rebelled like hell at everything like that ever when I got the chance. So, what happened was, as a teenager I basically rebelled against all of it. I started listening to, well, what the youth around me liked. However, I didn't actually like it either.

But yeah, I kinda turned your post into a Haven post, so sorry. Anyway, I try not to be prejudice with music now, but I still can't stand for the most part listening to 50s rock music like Elvis, to 60s hippie music. It's not that it's bad music, it's just hard to get over what it psychologically evokes in me.

However, I'm still very open to like, black people music made in the 70s-80s on, cuz my father was much less forceful in introducing it to me, that and my mother didn't like it too much. So, love that stuff. Also, in a weird twist of fate, I've gotten into some older jazz, swing, lounge kinda music. I love the Fallout 3 soundtrack, for example. Then I bought/dug up some older records of similar music. I love this one Perry Como record I got. So, in a twist of fate, I like the music my parents rebelled against. Ironic, no? Another really odd fruit of what my parents did, I really love 90s eurodance. It was the stuff I just heard a little bit as a kid and wanted more, but I could never get. So once I got internet and smart enough to download all the music I wanted, I immediately took to 90s eurodance. It's probably one of my favorite genres, just due to my parent's suppression. I like music from the 80s quite a bit, both American music, and actually Japanese music from the 70s and 80s, too. Oh, and I LOVE italodisco.

But yeah, sorry for turning your post into a bit of a Haven post. Anyway, I'm taking quite a liking to stuff like this here:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9YUB6-0Yss[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTVLZhhkdgI[/youtube]
I love music like this, and I can pretty much see why all the older people of the 60s were so up in arms about rock music and it's destroying of culture. I think the rock music of the 50s and 60s compared to stuff like this would be like comparing Soulja Boy to Michael Jackson. I find it really ironic that my parents also just randomly decided that the rock music they listened to as a kid was OK. It was what started the generation of free love, drugs, all that stuff, yet the 90s eurodance I wanted to listen to as a kid was bad, but the songs about doing drugs and being promiscuous from back then were totally cool, besides us kids don't even understand it anyway. Hypocritical...ugh.

Anyway, yeah, as such, with everything I said in mind, it's going to be a long while before I can really listen to "oldies" without my prejudice from my childhood affecting it, so yeah. Again, sorry for turning this into a Haven post.

woooot another fan!! !! i love Dion and the Belmonts too!

and Vigilans, i sing that song (badly) all the time. i love sweet old songs like that. post songs as old as you want - i have some older ones i wanna post too!! !


for now... i gotta know, why DO fools fall in love?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRZYa7TBDw8[/youtube]

you're even more heroic than I originally imagined!
I actually sang the song in the shower today..

Here's a very funny song from 1964:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDMAES4utqg[/youtube]

I also love my oldies. I like the songs that were recorded between 1964 and 1969 the most. This is my favourite oldie.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGKxMMkg5Rs[/youtube]

Although my main era is mid 70s to mid 80s I do love earlier moosic too.
stuff like:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEQpipS_qfc&feature=related[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PycKSdKG_74[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-xzfwDAn1I[/youtube]

Plus oodles of other stuff. I too shall return...

This thread has the potential to go on and on.

CR, awesome choice!

Icheb, i had never heard that song - that is hilarious. there are so many great funny oldies!! !! here is one that always made me laugh:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M32Qr5D9AUM[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaNiXA-ON-M&feature=related[/youtube]oohweeoohoohohhwoooohooh


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k&feature=related[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TLLcvWeiKw&feature=related[/youtube]