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Patty Andrews


Hey ...cool thread. I hadn't opened it until now because I figured "Patty Andrews" was some DJ on KIIS-FM...or something. I just turned 58, and grew up in the 1960s watching The 20th Century on TV, which ran primarily World War II footage, and with a father who idolized FDR. Harry Truman was still around - he lived until 1972 - he was a grumpy old curmudgeon, but he had a lot to say.

By the 60s, the Andrews Sisters were seriously 'old school.' but they made frequent TV appearances, and their music was always fun to listen to.

In the 70s in the Bay Area, my radio was frequently tuned to KMPX, which (post Tom Donahue) featured a Big Band format. Great music.

Note to Michael Hagerty who probably already knows this: San Francisco's Don Lee station was KFRC. Merv Griffin got his start on KFRC as a singer with the station's house band in the 1940s.
 
Lkeller said:



Note to Michael Hagerty who probably already knows this: San Francisco's Don Lee station was KFRC. Merv Griffin got his start on KFRC as a singer with the station's house band in the 1940s.
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Llew: In fact, there's some interesting symmetry. KHJ, KFRC and KGB, San Diego were all Don Lee stations. KGB was sold to Willett Brown and KHJ and KFRC to RKO, but Bill Drake consulted all three from the mid-60s to the early 70s. And after a series of hoops, KHJ-FM (now KRTH) and whatever's left of KFRC are back under the same ownership for the third time...this time CBS.
 
I have to agree the Andrew's Sister's were really cool ladies. Dean Martin had them on his show in the 60's. I really like the "Fish" song. Hello everyone!
 
Yes, cool thread, with many good notes. Particularly enjoyed Dave E's post because Dave is a cornucopia of information and he exuded genuine surprise at discovering something he didn't know, which is what learning is all about. One of those "I didn't know that" moments, usually followed by the word "cool," "wow" or "no #$%!"

Also noteworthy were the comments about famous people who passed "before I was born." Like many boomers, I heard the Andrews Sisters, Bennett, Glenn Miller, Count Basie and Sinatra because their songs were played on the radio stations my parents listened to. I first heard Elvis, The Drifters, Coasters, Robins and Johnny Mathis because their songs were played on the radio stations my older brother and sister listened to.

I was listening the other day to a Classic Rock station and The Who's "Magic Bus" came on... I thought, "Damn, this song's forty years old" (as I continued to listen to a song from my yout'.) Keith Moon and John Entwhistle are now jamming with Hendrix and Morrison. It won't be long before lots of these great songs will go the way of Music of Your Life (the 50+ demo.) Don't know about you, but my kids and their friends like Classic Rock because even though we've heard and played the songs hundred of times, these songs and groups are new to them.
 
JimPastrick said:
Yes, cool thread, with many good notes. Particularly enjoyed Dave E's post because Dave is a cornucopia of information and he exuded genuine surprise at discovering something he didn't know, which is what learning is all about. One of those "I didn't know that" moments, usually followed by the word "cool," "wow" or "no #$%!"

Also noteworthy were the comments about famous people who passed "before I was born." Like many boomers, I heard the Andrews Sisters, Bennett, Glenn Miller, Count Basie and Sinatra because their songs were played on the radio stations my parents listened to. I first heard Elvis, The Drifters, Coasters, Robins and Johnny Mathis because their songs were played on the radio stations my older brother and sister listened to.

I was listening the other day to a Classic Rock station and The Who's "Magic Bus" came on... I thought, "Damn, this song's forty years old" (as I continued to listen to a song from my yout'.) Keith Moon and John Entwhistle are now jamming with Hendrix and Morrison. It won't be long before lots of these great songs will go the way of Music of Your Life (the 50+ demo.) Don't know about you, but my kids and their friends like Classic Rock because even though we've heard and played the songs hundred of times, these songs and groups are new to them.
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Jim: I have two teens and see the same thing. Some of it is the newness...most of it, though, is exposure via media they're comfortable with....namely games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero and, to a lesser extent, use of the songs in movies.

It also helps that iTunes and other download services don't segregate by era or highlight by date...so when they're browsing, there's no prejudice built-in...they're able to sample 30 seconds of each track and if they like it...they like it.

I suspect that if they listened to the radio (BIG if these days) and heard the same songs scanning through the dial, they'd keep on scanning. It would be "old" stuff on an "old" medium.
 
When my older kids (now 27 and 23) were growing up, they professed to hate the 60s-70s Classic Rock and Oldies I listened to, but now they like it. When I finally sprung for an i-pod, I got a 500 + song head start by downloading my daughter's music library, which was a combination of pop and rock primarily from the 60s through the 80s...with a little bit of Hip Hop thrown in. In fact, she had downloaded a few dozen songs that were "oldies" in my youth - the 60s. These were songs you didn't hear on the radio then unless you tuned in Art Laboe.

But remember that they grew up listening to our radio stations, and hearing commercials, TV shows, and movies that use songs from that era. My youngest kid (14 - who's a singer) knows the lyrics from many 60s and 70s songs better than I do.
 
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