Help! i like 30's 40's music! what's wrong with me??

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What is wrong with me???

I like 30's 40's big band,swing stuff!! !

Judy garland

Andrews sisters

Bing crosby

Ray Anthony

and so on

I eve have a cover version of daisy bell!! !! (blur)
oh yes also like the 50's 60's 70's 80's 90's

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that! Tell me, do you like swing? i.e. Benny Goodman or Glenn Miller Band?

i love 30's and 40's music also. Do you collect 78's? I do.

I have glen millers Moonlight serenade

a few andrews sister songs

judy garlands version

and george gershwins version of "Embraceable you"

and george formabys "cleaning windows"

and a few others

(I am only 24) I swear I am 124! I cannot relate to new music

(I wish I was born in the 30's)

There's nothing wrong with that at all.

I'm 57, but I was 24 in 1973, a child of the 60's. I won't say that I didn't like some of the music of my era (not all of it, and some of it I pretended to like to adapt socially, although I didn't know why that was hard then), but I've always liked the music you like and I love Broadway music from the beginnings of the American musical up into the 60's.

It's wonderful stuff. I hope that you have satellite radio because that's the only way, outside of your own collection, that you can hear much of it anymore.

I get XM through my satellite tv connection and they have several good stations for American pop music.

Enjoy.

You are truly cool in your taste. Mine is classical, but I love some of the 30s music and grew up hearing the 40s stuff on the radio. I have a friend twenty years younger than me (I'm 67 now) who likes the music of those eras, too. He shares a lot of Asperger traits, I'm proud to say.

Nothing wrong with that at all. Very fun, happy music.

I'm not a fan of big band, swing or musicals, (apart from the original film of The Producers!) but my own particular msucial guilty secret is probably the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, a band who played on children's TV in the late 1960's, but whose music was a mixture of different styles from different times (including the 1920s and 30s). They're probably better known on this board than anywhere else, I imagine. Not all of their stuff is good, but the more inexplicable and the odder, the better. It's like Monty Python, (and the show they were on gave rise to Monty Python), but it can be weirder. There are also gems from slightly earlier, in Tom Lehrer and Flanders and Swann.
Having said that, my favourite music (not comedy) is mostly from the 1970s and the early 90's.

Hey, I like 30s and 40s stuff, especially 1730s and 40s. Gotta love them oldies.
Can anybody remember what people were listening to just a year ago?

The only thing wrong is that there aren't more people making beautiful music today. I particularly admire the clarinet men.

I listen to Cole Porter or George Gershwin musicals and am appalled at the loss of sophistication that has occurred in the past half-century. Even in the 60s there was some wit and taste about. Now everything is so dumbed-down and reduced to brute biological impulses that I cringe.

I can take refuge in classical music.

But it's just another example of why I truly feel I live on the wrong planet. This site is SO well named!

i'm a total hooker for singers & standards!!
i love the fashion of the era, i love putting my hair in big french rolls.....
i miss when women got dressed up and wore fur to go downtown or travel, even though i wasn't there.
<3

Good music is timeless does not matter when it was made. What is good music is up to you no one else. Do not limit yourself follow what you like.

I miss it, and I was there--at least from 1940 on.

It does look odd even to me, though, when in movies from the 40s and even the 50s, women wear gloves when they go out. But I'm sure my mom did, too, even if I don't remember that.

There was an attention to detail and a certain propriety that has simply vanished. It's a loss.

yeah.

most of my favorite movies are from that era.

Me too, and I'm 56. Will you marry me?