So, turned on the oldies station on Verizon's Music Choice channel in a long while and started boppin' around while having my breakfast. There's something about the oldies that always turns my bad moods into good. I looove the oldies...great melodies, artists, etc and this music is before my time. So what are the songs/ artist(s) that you like from the oldies?
@jeff - well, I have understood "Oldies" to be from the 50's and 60's. Ya know like, chubby checkers, the shirelles, the platters,patsy cline, the rat pack, etc. That kind of music. I guess some might call it be-bop, golden oldies, girl groups, etc.
Maybe "oldies" has something to do with the passage of time and the memories that a particular song evokes. There's something about them that can unearth an old heartache. This is one of them:
The Fleetwoods: 1959 "Come Softly to Me" (Gold Record) #1 Pop #5 R&B
Having grown up in the 60's and early 70's, to me "Oldies" means music that was popular pre-Beatles - so primarily 1950s rock-and-roll. But to my kids (who range in age from 28 to 39) it signifies something entirely different - in fact my 28 year-old and my 39 year-old probably have different ideas about what "oldies" are but in any case for them it's more like 60's psychedelia through post-punk new-wave that are the oldies. The 50's were just too long ago to have any currency at all.
