On 2017-05-31 5:55 PM, Bruce wrote:
> 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.
>

Lots of people got older. I was in my 20s during the 70s when oldies
stations started playing the music of the 50s. Those songs were only 20
years old. We aren't seeing a lot of "oldies" stations playing the music
of the 90s. The music of the 50s was bad enough but managed a retro
comeback. Music of the 80s and 90s never managed to do that.