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Did Beach Music die with him?

I noticed the obit...
We were at North Myrtle toward the end of SOS, and the wife and I discussed the age of SOS folks now... and how that crowd is thinning out too.. sad.
 
turkeydance said:
just like:
Big Band/Doo-Woop/Death Metal.....
"it all goes away in the end".
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Big Band is still being played and DooWop is currently being used as a theme in a Buick commercial.

Death Metal, fortunately, is dead.
 
I knew about in last Saturday, right after he passed, but didn't say anything about it here.

I saw Billy and the band many times at the Old Coachman and Four club in Bennettsville, and they always put on a great show. What I would give to be able to go back there one more time and hear Billy sing I Got the Fever or California!

Great guy, great singer full of personality and talent. He will be sorely missed.
 
Beach music is far from dead. It will go on just as Billy would have wanted, and as the General said, "forever will stand!"

turkeydance said:
just like:
Big Band/Doo-Woop/Death Metal.....
"it all goes away in the end".
Click to expand...
 
rnigma said:
And thanks to Austin Powers, when you mention "shag" to anyone, they think of sex.
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In the land down under, it has meant that for a long, long time.

They refer to a Drizabone drover's coat derisively as a "Wet as a shag".
 
file under "Big Lies":
1. Big Band music will come back.
2. Broadcast Radio is still relevant.
3. Beanie-Babies are worth something.
 
turkeydance said:
file under "Big Lies":
1. Big Band music will come back.
2. Broadcast Radio is still relevant.
3. Beanie-Babies are worth something.
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I have to agree. As a trasplant to the Carolinas in 1981 I didn't like Beach Music all that much but I did appreciate the area had it's own unique type of music. There are a few Beach Music tunes I like but when Oldies went away on the radio it was the end of Beach Music on the radio as well.
 
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