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Members of the band Haim thought oldies were new songs

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vchimpanzee

Haim is a band that started out like The Partridge Family. The girls listened to an oldies radio station along with their parents. They thought the songs were new and thought it would be really cool to see The Beatles in concert.

One of the girls was nine when she learned the "Hotel California" guitar solo and a heckler asked, "Where's the recording?"

Now the girls are on their own performing on "Saturday Night Live" and elsewhere.
 
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Not sure why this is posted here, other than the reference to the fictional Partridge Family. They were more like The Monkees: A band put together for a TV show:

The Partridge Family - Wikipedia

If you want to discuss actual real life family bands from the 60s/70s, there would be The Cowsills. They were an actual family. The Osmond Brothers, The Jackson Five, and the Bee Gees are family groups from the 60s & 70s. The Beach Boys were the three Wilson brothers and cousin Mike Love.

This particular family band got some help from Taylor Swift. That might be the source of their popularity.

Haim (band) - Wikipedia
 
The point in posting this is that these kids thought the oldies were new songs. I wonder how many other kids listening to oldies with their parents thought this?
 
vchimpanzee said:
The point in posting this is that these kids thought the oldies were new songs. I wonder how many other kids listening to oldies with their parents thought this?
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You'd be surprised how many people in their teens and 20s are shocked to learn that Sweet Home Alabama is over 40 years old. The song gets played in bars and young people react as though it's current. They have no idea what the Neil Young references in the song are about.

One of the famous stories was a record label president who wanted to get one of his artists to sing a duet with Patsy Cline. At the time, Patsy had been dead for 25 years. McCartney would joke about this little band he was in before Wings.
 
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