When I was in Jr. High about 50 years ago we did not listen

[Hardrada]

to Golden Oldie hits from 1906!! So why are the songs that are 50 years old now still on the radio??

[StellaBlue]

1. great point!

I am scratching my head...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. Sometimes you did...

Elvis Presley's "Love Me Tender" was written to the tune "Aura Lee", which was popular during the Civil War.

"None But the Lonely Heart" was written by Tchaikovsky several decades before Frank Sinatra made it popular.

And remember the Walter Carlos hit, "Joy", in the 1960s, which was an updated version of J. S. Bach's "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring"?

[Hardrada]

4. Quite true and Wooden Heart was based on a German song,

Muss i den. I mean though we did not have a whole catalog of 1906 era "hits" to listen to as regular radio oldies on call-in FM shows. In fact, even THEN the only one who could remember vaudeville era oldies was George Burns.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. I guess it's because they didn't have decent recordings

of "Bicycle Built for Two" and such. We used to get out my parents old 78rpm records on New Years Eve, and listen to scratched-up tunes from the 40s and 50s that they loved..."All Right Louie, Drop the Gun", "Civilization", "Mr Five by Five" :-)

[Hardrada]

9. That's a great memory. We had the old 78's too but

were brought up by folks who bought collections of their old favorites when they came out on stereo LP's! I still have the Big Band collections and the wonderful set: The Music of Life (Magazine). That has Dinah Shore singing Blues in the Night. I keep that set handy. And now we are talking about music that is 60+ years old!!

[LouisianaLiberal]

3. I don't listen to popular radio, but I'd like to venture a guess.

I still like to dance at age 47. I have no idea how to dance to what is considered popular now. At the risk of sounding like my late father ... "that's not music - that's noise"

I actually appreciate music of the sixties and seventies much more now than when I was a teen, when I listened to classical and jazz.

Do you really like or understand what seems to me like kiddie music?

Great screen name, by the way. Are you related to a former Norwegian king? If you are, sorry about what happened at that battle in Scotland.

[Hardrada]

8. No relation. We lived at the far end of another fjord!

Battle was in England, actually. Sad, sad affair we yet rue.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Because rock 'n' roll is here to stay

But "Cuddle Up a Little Closer," "I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark" and "On The Road to Mandalay" aren't.




Trivia: Which of those three did Col. Potter sing in a "MASH" episode?

[Hardrada]

7. Let me guess. All three??

[kwassa]

10. were there recordings (other than wax cylinders) or radio in 1906?

I don't think so.

Sheet music was the popular thing.

[jukes]

11. because there wasn't 15 years

of ridiculous rap music by wannabee gangsters to endure...

[Hardrada]

12. Good point too!