leafwalker
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Post by leafwalker on Sept 4, 2021 17:58:52 GMT -8
Just short clips. For the more experienced here. Yes, I'm that young. For those of 70s and 80s coming of age you can click to those if you must. But, music kind of stopped around the mid 70s for a bit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDWPNgRNdHI |
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Post by Travis on Sept 4, 2021 18:52:30 GMT -8
I was watching some of the same videos last week. I went from the later 1950s through the early 1970s. Oh, the memories!
What struck me most last week was the transition from carefully permed helmet hair to the more free-flowing longer styles that emerged and the transition from the restrained, carefully choreographed dance routines to the occasional spontaneous and unrestrained movements that seem more from the heart of the musician or singer.
There were a lot of good tunes from those years.
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Post by autumnmist on Sept 5, 2021 6:29:42 GMT -8
Travis, do you get PBS stations that periodically focus on fundraising and show compilations of various periods in time, such as the Folk Rewind? It segues from the earlier times when the hair was as you described, through more tempestuous times. There aren't many dance routines, just singers moving back and forth and from side to side, but the music is phenomenal, and really brings back a lot of those old, precious songs. Eve of Destruction is one that's always featured, and reminds me of how much some national and international issues have morphed and still exist in one way or another. Some of the more famous songwriters and musicians such as Buffy Ste. Marie and Joan Baez aren't featured though, but Pete Seeger is, singing with Judy Collins. www.pbs.org/video/john-sebastian-presents-folk-rewind-oqcufa/
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Post by davesenesac on Sept 5, 2021 8:56:06 GMT -8
A most excellent sequential mental trip down memory lane especially the early 60s, thanks.
But yet another decades later revision of late 60s 70s history by current era pop media. What is going on? The listing is for top Billboard singles not AOR Album Oriented Rock. It is true that some of those singles for all genres were also parts of albums that rated #1. Stuff one would hear on TOP 40 NYC AM radio stations. Most Rock groups never made vinyl singles and in fact and Top 40 AM stations generally at the business end was at war with counterculture Classic Rock that was FM radio while at personal counterculture levels a bubblegum divide rapidly rose in the late 1969 even the Beatles suffered from. So no you won't see Doors, Hendrix, Cream, Zeppelin etc in 1968-69. |
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Post by Travis on Sept 5, 2021 10:09:15 GMT -8
Travis N Wood, do you get PBS stations that periodically focus on fundraising and show compilations of various periods in time, such as the Folk Rewind? I can get PBS on my radio. I don't own a TV and have kept it that way virtually my entire adult life. Before internet, I listened to Public Radio often and had my favorite programs, but I don't think the one you named was on the air back then. But occasionally when eating my last meal of the day, I'll check music videos on YouTube and my favorites are often studio recordings that are videotaped, but the singer is not concentrating on projecting to a visual audience but rather on producing the soundtrack. There you see the singers movements as a reflection of inner feelings as he or she portrays the character singing the song. So the movements are more spontaneous, in character, timed to their own rhythms and feelings, and much less a choreographed projection. I feel like I'm seeing more into the singer's feelings and manner of keeping time that way. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2021 18:05:35 GMT -8
interesting to listen to these! in 1964 I was in 4th grade, and was just starting to listen to 'that trash' as my dad called it. By 10th grade in high school, I had discovered 'underground music' via a radio station in Chicago that I could just barely pick up with my radio late at night. Then discovered two local college stations that played that exclusively. Most of the kids I hung around with had no idea what I was listening to,(Yes, ELP, and a lot of European stuff) but by my senior year, many of them had converted to it.
Oddly enough, I also listened to 2 local Washington DC stations that pretty much played a lot of Jazz and big band music. I liked all of it. I'd be listening to some esoteric rock on WHFS then switch to WMAL A.M on Friday nights to catch Felix Grant playing an amazing mix of Jazz from all over the world, then he'd explain it.
I miss the days when the radio DJ would bring his own collection of records and play those. You never knew from one day to the next what you might hear.
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Post by driftwoody on Sept 5, 2021 18:21:20 GMT -8
Junior year of high school 1973 I started listening to WXRT Chicago. A few years later at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale the "underground" FM station was WTAO, which played a lot of eclectic stuff including a spaced out radio show called The Fourth Tower of Inverness. In the early 1980's WTAO was bought and turned into a typical commercial station. I felt like an old friend had died.
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Post by autumnmist on Sept 6, 2021 12:07:42 GMT -8
the singer is not concentrating on projecting to a visual audience but rather on producing the soundtrack. Interesting observation. Thinking about it, that's a strong element of Folk Rewind... clothing styles that changed over the years, solo singers sometimes adding backup singers, backups in suits or evening gowns...except for one that's quite amusing. I can't remember the name of the group; one of the musicians plays a banjo (if I remember correctly).. He's dressed in a pink top, reddish pants, and blue socks. I love his sense of individualism! |
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Post by panatomicx on Sept 6, 2021 13:48:03 GMT -8
As I was going through the clips, I was waiting for the Beatles. 1964 I was 9 years old, '63 and '64 were the first songs I remember identifying with. that trash' as my dad called it. I can still remember my father, who was a big classical music buff, saying "That's not music, all they say is yeah, yeah,yeah" |
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Post by Hikerjer on Sept 6, 2021 13:53:47 GMT -8
Hey, thanks for the memories. Seems like yesterday but who are all those guys wearing ties?
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Post by starwalker on Sept 6, 2021 21:26:59 GMT -8
After watching and listening to all those, I found many favorites, and a few that I wasn't fond of then or now. Although it isn't my favorite song, in my humble opinion, Jim Reeves has one of the smoothest voices of any of them.
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Post by FamilySherpa on Sept 7, 2021 5:06:59 GMT -8
Not very accurate, but it was still cool to watch.
Gave me a new appreciation for the Rolling Stones.
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Post by desert dweller on Sept 7, 2021 7:32:56 GMT -8
In the video description the owner of the channel said that he got demonetized a few weeks ago. Probably from playing copyrighted material.
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Post by swimswithtrout on Sept 7, 2021 13:21:40 GMT -8
I pulled an "all nighter" a couple of days ago to take advantage of a rare smoke-free night for my astrophotos. That's what I did to while the time away. I listened to 1966 up to 1973.
50 years ago this week, 1971, these were the top 20 songs..
GO AWAY LITTLE GIRL –•– Donny Osmond (MGM)-6 (1 week at #1) (1)
SPANISH HARLEM –•– Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)-7 (2)
SMILING FACES SOMETIMES –•– The Undisputed Truth (Gordy)-12 (3)
AIN’T NO SUNSHINE –•– Bill Withers (Sussex)-9 (4)
UNCLE ALBERT / ADMIRAL HALSEY –•– Paul and Linda McCartney (Apple)-5 (1)
HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART –•– The Bee Gees (Atco)-12 (1)
I JUST WANT TO CELEBRATE –•– Rare Earth (Rare Earth)-9 (7)
TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS –•– John Denver with Fat City (RCA)-21 (2)
SIGNS –•– Five Man Electrical Band (Lionel)-16 (3)
MAGGIE MAY / REASON TO BELIEVE –•– Rod Stewart (Mercury)-9 (10)
WHATCHA SEE IS WHATCHA GET –•– The Dramatics (Volt)-11 (11)
THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN –•– Joan Baez (Vanguard)-5 (12)
LIAR –•– Three Dog Night (Dunhill)-10 (7)
STICK-UP –•– The Honey Cone (Hot Wax)-6 (14)
MERCY MERCY ME (The Ecology) –•– Marvin Gaye (Tamla)-11 (4)
WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN –•– The Who (Decca)-9 (16)
SUPERSTAR / BLESS THE BEASTS AND CHILDREN –•– The Carpenters (A&M)-2 (17)
I WOKE UP IN LOVE THIS MORNING –•– The Partridge Family
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