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al-Qa'bong
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posted 02 September 2008 10:00 PM      Profile for al-Qa'bong   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I was listening to nostalgie.fr today, and heard them play Jerry Rafferty's Baker Street and some tune from "Grease," sung by Olivia Newton John and John Travolta.

I remember these well, since they were popular exactly 30 years ago this week, when I began university. The Rolling Stones' Miss You, Bob Seger's Hollywood Nights, and Nick Gilder's Hot Child in the City were also big that week.

Nick Gilder just played a show here a couple of weeks ago, the Rolling Stones still tour, and like I said, Gerry Rafferty and the "Grease" soundtrack are still being played on the radio.

Thirty tears before 1978 was 1948. We didn't hear anything remotely close to what was on the radio in 1948 back when I was 17. We didn't even listen to anything from as far back as 1968 in those years.

I see kids today with Sex Pistols, Led Zeppelin and Ramones t-shirts, which would have been like my buddies and me wearing Artie Shaw gear 30 years ago.

What's going on?


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posted 02 September 2008 10:20 PM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
My 11 year-old nephew is an Aerosmith fan and wants my three milk crates of 33rpm LP's. My Pioneer amp and turntable stopped working about 15 years ago. His mommy gave him an authentic Woodstock album from when she was a hippie. And he won't sell it to me.
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posted 19 September 2008 11:51 AM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
When I was 16 in 1962 I discovered Glenn Miller.

I had a record of music from The Glenn Miller Story (1954) which I played constantly, much to the amusement of my parents.

The following year I went straight from Glenn Miller to The Beatles.


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posted 19 September 2008 11:58 AM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I was negative three in 1962, last of five. I was unplanned but never unloved, just lonely. But I did listen to Glen Miller, Count Basie etc sometime later. Never actually heard the Ink Spots or Harmonicats until watching the ten part TV series Singing Detective with my dying mama. Peg o My Heart is a lovely tune engraved in my memory forever now. It was her favourite.
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posted 19 September 2008 02:47 PM      Profile for al-Qa'bong   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
My parents had a 10-record Reader's Digest collection called "The Great Band Era" that I used to listen to a lot when I was 9-12. I got sidetracked as a teenager, but am now back to the Great Band Era to the extent that I host a radio show of music from the 20s to the 40s.

I thus have a fairly strange CD collection - pretty well nothing but reissues of music from those years.


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posted 19 September 2008 02:50 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Is your show webcast?
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posted 19 September 2008 03:36 PM      Profile for KenS     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
My daughter gravitated naturally to 50 year old music and musicals starting at about 8. She still likes them, but is more into the indie scene.

I never had such interests in what came before. Went from what was then called country in the 50's [Woody Guthrie, bluegrass, hillbilly] straight to the Beattles.

My best friend was a music geek trained in classical. He also liked the early Brit groups and introduced them to me. I really like them now, but didn't get it until the Beattles came along and the bandwagon was already warp speed. Ditto for Buddy Holly and others that influenced the Beattles: I had heard them and my hillbilly father liked them... but I didn't get it until much later.


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posted 19 September 2008 05:35 PM      Profile for al-Qa'bong   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by M. Spector:
Is your show webcast?

Yes.

Even those who aren't mouldy figs like me should like something on our station's playlists, especially if you like Indie rock or world music.

[Baker Street is on the radio again!]

http://www.cfcr.ca/


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posted 19 September 2008 05:51 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thanx. I'll check it out!
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posted 19 September 2008 06:20 PM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by al-Qa'bong:

http://www.cfcr.ca/


Is this bar open til tomorrow? - Mahones. Sounds Irish to me, or something. cool Me mam and father were Irish, and I'm Irish too. We kept a pig in the parlor, and it was Irish stew.

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posted 20 September 2008 10:01 AM      Profile for WendyL     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I loved the Baker Street Album, but I remember having the cassette playing almost daily around my third year of university....around '79. Though a couple of years old by then, The Year Of The Cat was another favourite, as was Bob Welch's French Kiss album and I was still playing a lot of Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Carol King. One of my roommates at school made me suffer through too much Jim Croce and Dan Hill. Growing up, I listened to the big band sounds of Jimmy Dorsey Band, Count Basie and the like. Some of my father's favourites still feel good to me...Burl Ives, Patti Page, Dean Martin.
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posted 09 October 2008 07:45 PM      Profile for al-Qa'bong   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Fidel:

Is this bar open til tomorrow? - Mahones. Sounds Irish to me, or something. cool Me mam and father were Irish, and I'm Irish too. We kept a pig in the parlor, and it was Irish stew.

[ 19 September 2008: Message edited by: Fidel ]



You must have been listening to "So Many Roads," our Folk, Country and Blues show that airs on weekday mornings.

We have a killer reggae show on Friday nights.

One of our Tuesday afternoon hosts should be syndicated nationally. Check out "Tin Cans and Twine," hosted by Shakey Wilson and Shoulder Crow.

quote:
...as was Bob Welch's French Kiss album ...

Is that record any good? I've never heard the whole thing, but I used to look at the record in stores, staring at the jacket...wishing I had some hot babe like the one on the cover sticking her tongue in my ear.

I don't know if a little CD cover could get quite the same...ummm, selling point...across today.

[ 09 October 2008: Message edited by: al-Qa'bong ]


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posted 09 October 2008 08:29 PM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Play UB40? Red-red wine? My first beverage was cherry wine, and that song still makes me nauseous.I mean, makes me remember all the ways back to when I was 15 or so, and that silly-silly song
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posted 09 October 2008 09:34 PM      Profile for al-Qa'bong   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
When you were 15? You must be thinking of the Neil Diamond version.

Odd that you'd mention that song, though. A couple of weeks ago some kid phoned up during my show and requested Bob Marley singing "Red Red Wine."


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