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There was something on the TV about Baby Boomers and buying music.   It seems the Baby Boomers are the biggest percentage of people buying CDs now.   So maybe my oldies night idea is going to become popular.    That includes music from the 50's-60's-70's.     They are also going to concerts more too.

i saw an article on that recently as well.  interestingfodder for discussion since "pre baby boomers" seem to gravitate away from technology.  on the idea of an oldies night, would you ONLY allow songs of those eras be sung or would it merely be a strong suggestion?

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I like that era of music does that make me old?

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It doesn't mean that most people listening to music are baby boomers. It means our kids are down loading their music to listen too. (MP3 players)

I had to laugh when I saw the Barry Manilow CD was a best seller. I don't have anything against Barry Manilow, but I know he isn't the most popular singer right now.

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American Idol may have helped that along, he was the featured artist a couple times if I recall.

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That makes sense Lon. I saw that episode. He really was wonderful with those kids. He recomposed the songs to fit their voices to a tee. He is very talented.

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Don't count Barry out.  He is indeed very popular today.

I printed an all oldies book.   With songs from the 50's, 60's, 70's and up to mid 80's.   I wanted it to be nothing in the last 20 years.      I deleted everything that was after 1985 from my original song book.   That left over 4,000 oldies.

That eliminates 99.9% of the Rap/Hip hop.  All of the Angry Rock, As I call it.

I was somewhat suprised at the younger participants.    It's mostly an over 30 crowd.   Much nicer on the ears.

not at all.  i don't consider myself ols, but Benny Goodman and Frank Sinatra are two of my favorite artists.  I also love Tennessee Ernie Ford.  Believe it or not, i still try to watch the lawrence welk show when i can find it!

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My kids are in their early thirties.  They grew up listening to the "oldies".  They know and appreciate that music as much as I.  When my youngest son and I go to Karaoke together, he could sing a Temptations' song just as likely that he'll sing a hip hop number.

My kids are in their early thirties.  They grew up listening to the "oldies".  They know and appreciate that music as much as I.  When my youngest son and I go to Karaoke together, he could sing a Temptations' song just as likely that he'll sing a hip hop number.

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I grew up listening to NOTHING but Sinatra, Ella, the swing bands (Goodman, Shaw, Dorsey and Ellington my favorites) even though I was born in 1964.  I knew another kid in high school like myself.  The only explanation for it we could figure out was our parents were substantially older than most of our peers (my father was 102 when I was born), although it was my mom who was the music lover in the household.  One of the pleasant surprises in listening to my favorite singers on SS who do material contemporary during my teens is that a lot of this was not so bad!

Count Basie and Fletcher Henderson.

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Right with you on Henderson, Kurt!  My favorite is his arrangement of "Limehouse Blues" (many to pick from) and of course, he was responsible for giving Goodman his early "sound".  Another group that was very musical and somewhat unique was Andy Kirk and his 12 Clouds of Joy".  It's nice to see today that you can actually find a number of CDs by these lesser known luminaries.

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I think one the reason the "swing" bands did not successfully come back this last time around is they did not display the variety of music a good swing band does.  Too many tracks on their CDs were plays on the minor key "Sing, Sing, Sing" and there just didn't seem to be much room for other types of scores, which made listening a bit boring after a while.  They are all quite accomplished players (Brian Setzer's Orchestra easily being the best) so hope to hear them perform different types of songs in the future.  I've also heard some amazing recreations of the original charts done by some lesser known aggregations, such as the Pasadena Roof House Orchestra, but finding their recordings is nigh impossible.

Probably because most of the younger ages burn songs from the P2P sites
such as Limewire, Kazaa etc these days and pirate music for free.  It's the old farts that are technophobes that are still buying CD's. Stats may be up on this particular age bracket, but it doesn't mean sales are high  LOL


I'm confused about what appears to be an ambiguous term "baby boomer". Today I read that the baby boomer generation consists of those of us hatched between 1946-1964. When Clinton was president ("baby boomer" president) baby boomers were defined as those born closer to the end of WWll, and as someone born in 1956 I was too young to be considered a baby boomer. Baby boomer cutoff age 8+ years back consisted of about a a decade long age-span with it's YOUNGEST members being those that could've been Vietnam Veteran age. Those of us that are 50 now were several years too young. It was was clearly defined in the mid-90's and prior that if a person was too young to have gone to Woodstock '69, they were too young to have fallen into the "baby boomer" bracket. So either my memory has gone to mush, or wikipedia (as well as quite a few other sources) aren't accurate on this particular fact. These sources make claims that baby boomer youngest cutoff age would be birth year 1964.  I think these sources are ten years off. Baby boomers couldn't have been born after 1954.

Dunno. I can't imagine how such a term would not have a set definition.

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I have a friend who comes to every show and we worked up a helluva version of 'What a Wonderful World' he does the Louis style and I do a higher melodic version, we swap off verses til the end verse which we do together. It's rather cool, but something you would have to hear for yourself to get the full impact, a definite crowd pleaser. I mean every time we do it, you can hear a pin drop and the whole crowd just has a huge smile on their faces. Great to know that folks still remember such a great classic. I guess we owe Robin Williams a huge thanks for reviving it in 'Good Morning Vietnam'.

James

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I'd love to hear that if you can ever record it.  Louis Armstrong was the first voice I ever remember coming out of the family record player.