Uncle Joe Posted April 10, 2005 Report Posted April 10, 2005 Maddy, any favorite groups? I like The Skyliners, The Rivieras, The Flamingos, Lee Andrews and The Hearts, The Avalons, The Moonglows, The Harptones, The Demensions, The Jive Five, The Sheppards, The Passions, The Chimes, The Classics, The Paragons, The Earls, Billy and the Essentials,The Four J's, etc., etc.
OLD 55 Posted April 10, 2005 Report Posted April 10, 2005 I guess I must like 50s music best, Pop, R&B, Doo Wop, Rock and Roll, even though I think the 60s were the best decade musically in my lifetime, and the Big Band era was great. Bob Dylan said something to this effect in the 60s - "if we never wrote another song we'd have plenty to last us now". I like harmony groups like the McGuire Sisters, Four Aces, Four Lads, Diamonds etc. best.
Tammy11173 Posted April 12, 2005 Report Posted April 12, 2005 My favorite doo-wop group is the Del(or Dell)-Vikings. They had such a good sound.
OLD 55 Posted April 12, 2005 Report Posted April 12, 2005 Dum dum dum dum, dum be doobee dum. They were great. Like the Skyliners "Since I Don't Have You" also. Jesse Belvin (Cliques, Shields) is another of my favourites. And the GREAT Ivory Joe Hunter of course. White singers took his songs, copied them note for note, and had Hits with them.
Uncle Joe Posted April 13, 2005 Report Posted April 13, 2005 And the GREAT Ivory Joe Hunter of course. White singers took his songs, copied them note for note, and had Hits with them. Well Darryl, it didn't help that Joe was in prison where he couldn't record or perform.
Batman Posted April 14, 2005 Author Report Posted April 14, 2005 I don't mind listening to old blues, but I don't make an effort to go buy old blues albums
nobody_home Posted April 15, 2005 Report Posted April 15, 2005 Oldest stuff I've gone out of my way to buy would be Beethovan's "Moonlight Sonata." I also like Chopin's "Mazurka in A-" and Dvorak's "Symphony No. 9." Jazz would be Louis Armstrong's "West End Blues." Rock would probably be Buddy Holly. I've never really caught on to Elvis . IMO his music hasn't aged well , and the fact that he didn't write his own songs depreciates my respect for him.
edna Posted April 15, 2005 Report Posted April 15, 2005 I have a tape with the Russian popular songs by the Soviet Army Choir. Must be from the 40s or so... It´s great... I love that music! As I´m half Russian and I understand the lyrics I can sing too! ::
Alexsy Posted April 22, 2005 Report Posted April 22, 2005 the oldest stuff i like is buddy holly ... so i guess that's mid-late 50s ... but my favorite stuff probably falls from 1965-1969 or 1970, that time period ... two of my favorite songs -- the yardbirds "over under sideways down," the who "i can't explain," came in '65 / '66, and then the beach boys Pet Sounds album ... woah. so, yeh, long story short, i love the mid-60s.
Lateboomer Posted June 11, 2005 Report Posted June 11, 2005 ..Ella Fitzgerald singing George Gershwin ("Someone To Watch Over Me"), Vera Lynn singing all the WWII songs, and a tenor by the name of John McCormack from the 'teens and twenties of the 20th century... This was some of the music my parents played from the time I can remember. Lateboomer...
audioslave Posted June 16, 2005 Report Posted June 16, 2005 My Dad had fairly eclectic taste in music and the oldest stuff I ever listen to are probably the ones he played when I was just a little girl - Mario Lanza's "The Kiss" was his favorite, and he loved Frankie Laine, Roy Orbison, Hank Sr., Patsy Cline, Mahalia Jackson, Jimmie Rogers, Nat King Cole, Bill Withers, Tennessee Ernie Ford - (16 Tons) and Jimmy Dean - Big Bad John, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Harry James and Rosemary Clooney. The Girl From Ipanema - by Stan Getz was a particular favorite for me, as was anything by Johnny Cash. When Folsom Prison Blues came out we must have heard it every weekend for a year. I still love those songs and artists. (And now with the internet they're not quite so hard to find.) As far as rock goes I guess Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry are my earliest favorites. Hey - I love htis thread.
bluesboy Posted June 16, 2005 Report Posted June 16, 2005 Even though it's scratchy technology, Louis Armstrong's West End Blues (1928) helped start and define jazz solos for the modern era. I agree with Daniel on the blues side, Robert Johnson took blues to the next plateau.
Richard48795 Posted July 1, 2005 Report Posted July 1, 2005 Gregorian Chants the oldest music ever recorded all in latin http://jbe.la.psu.edu/courses/sounds/gregorian%20chants.wav is a sample but bad quality and takes a while to download unless you have T1
Tuffy Posted July 12, 2005 Report Posted July 12, 2005 well i listen to a lot of pink floyd and besides that i like big band but the oldest i go is carmina burana. just because i did that for a marching band show and the song is awsome or musical whatever it is
LynyrdSkynyrdAreFreeBirds Posted July 13, 2005 Report Posted July 13, 2005 Hendrix is as far as I go back probably. Then the 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's..........
Shawna Posted July 14, 2005 Report Posted July 14, 2005 Good grief... all this talk about classical music ~ I'm not worthy!! I WISH that I liked classical music... it would be so... well... classy! But alas, I can say the oldest music I like is the stuff of my mom's that I used to play on the record player when I was little... "Sixteen Tons" ~ Tennessee Ernie Ford; "Don't Be Cruel" ~ Elvis... you get the picture. I do love Renaissance music. Does that count?
RyanTurtle Posted July 15, 2005 Report Posted July 15, 2005 Oldest music I like? You know when the cavemen beat on walls? That stuff rocked....just kidding....that crap sucked. Nah....Roaring 20's....that's about as old as it gets for me.
PSYCHOcatholic Posted July 27, 2005 Report Posted July 27, 2005 Old Bagpipe music of Scotland. Thats how far i go.
Miss Vicky Posted July 27, 2005 Report Posted July 27, 2005 The oldest music I listen to... The Kingston Trio Elvis Presley The Everly Bros. Chuck Berry
Batman Posted July 30, 2005 Author Report Posted July 30, 2005 Gregorian Chants the oldest music ever recorded all in latin http://jbe.la.psu.edu/courses/sounds/gregorian%20chants.wav is a sample but bad quality and takes a while to download unless you have T1 do you actually like listening to that, or are you just saying that to try to impress us with the old music you found?
Sweet Jane 61 Posted October 13, 2005 Report Posted October 13, 2005 Music my Dad would listen to and even though I was into rock it was his music and he shared it with me which meant a lot... Judy Garland Benny Goodman Frank Sinatra Judy could bring a tear to my Dad so I knew then he felt music like I did, I never felt closer to him.
Jugband_Blues Posted October 23, 2005 Report Posted October 23, 2005 oldest thing i have is "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis, 1959
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