On Wed, 31 May 2017 17:54:57 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2017-05-31 5:23 PM, Bruce wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 May 2017 17:16:59 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2017-05-31 4:15 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good point. I listen to a lot of 40's on XM radio. Glenn Miller, Artie
>>>> Shaw, etc. I was never a Beatles fan but I don't change the station if
>>>> it comes on. Elvis was good, but so were many before him. There are so
>>>> many types of music that have contributed to what Elvis drew from they
>>>> should not be cast aside. His exposure to blues, gospel and other made
>>>> him what he was.
>>>>
>>>> I like a lot of the 50's too, but I listen to some and think "did
>>>> someone really write those silly lyrics?"
>>>
>>> I always thought that 1950s American pop was the reason for the British
>>> Invasion of the early 60s. There was a lot of good music in the 60s and
>>> 70s. Then there is the contemporary pop, which explains why oldies are
>>> so popular and why there are so many classic rock stations.
>>
>> Dad rock stations exist because there are 50+ people, not because that
>> music was necessarily better than contemporary music.
>
>It is not just the boomers listening to them. My son and all his friends
>like that stuff too. There was a lot of good music in the 60s and 70s.
>Things went downhill in the 80s and 90s and never really went back up.

Nonsense. What really happened is that you got older.