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when did SNL stop being good (if it ever was)?
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That's pretty much common knowledge and well-documented history at this point.
I forget the guy's name but one of the people responsible for the music acts interviewed said they are aiming for at least a few of the "new hip" artists for "young night club crowd". * So I guess occasionally if you are 30 or older there will be some musical act you have never heard of and don't care to hear again. One of the signs of growing up.
*Kind of like Alternative music: you will hear something you don't recognize sooner or later.
This season's musical guests so far:
Every Musical Guest for SNL Season 50: Arcade Fire, Benson Boone & More
Learn more about the Musical Guests from Saturday Night Live Season 50, including Chappell Roan, Brandi Carlile, and Benson Boone.
I've had to look a few of them up while watching the show, but what's surprising is how many of them my wife and I (both in our 60s, but both very big fans of music in addition to my radio career and her having played and sung music as a performer most of her life) enjoyed.
My first year of college was 1975. I didn't have a TV then. But as the fall season went on, it became apparent that people stopped going out on Saturday nights. Friends, knowing I didn't have a TV, invited me over to watch SNL. That became the party, at least until midnight (Central time zone).
It's also important to recall that, when SNL first started, New York City had what might politely be called an edgy reputation. This was the era of Ford to City: Drop Dead (referring to President Ford) and, while messy from an economic and political point of view, was very productive in terms of popular culture coming out of the city. It was new and different, a chaser for the blandness of most other network television, and a lot of people in my generation (that phrase makes me feel old right there) responded to it, no matter where they were.
What's this I hear about flea erections in Spain?
(Ah, Gilda Radner, taken from us way too soon)
Really? I always thought it stood for Nooyawk Broadcasting Company.
Really? I always thought it stood for Nooyawk Broadcasting Company.
My friends there used to call it the national biscuit company. Gotta churn out more biscuits.
I never stayed up but kids at my high school sure liked it.
It wasn't until 2013 when they started doing prime time reruns on Saturdays that I started watching more than clip shows. It took me 13 years to realize "Wait, I can record it!"
That's Nabisco.
My musical taste is quite conservative but I've heard a number of good acts recently. Even Sabrina Carpenter! But some of these people actually do the kind of music I like, instead of what's popular.This season's musical guests so far:
Every Musical Guest for SNL Season 50: Arcade Fire, Benson Boone & More
Learn more about the Musical Guests from Saturday Night Live Season 50, including Chappell Roan, Brandi Carlile, and Benson Boone.www.nbc.com
I've had to look a few of them up while watching the show, but what's surprising is how many of them my wife and I (both in our 60s, but both very big fans of music in addition to my radio career and her having played and sung music as a performer most of her life) enjoyed.
There is another NBC Building in Manhattan–not in Midtown, but on 11th Avenue in Chelsea, that was home to said baking concern.
Today, we call that company by its portmanteau name of Nabisco.
I really wonder how much SNL has changed vs how much we have changed. I really don't have much use for what's on the radio now days except for the oldies stations. I remember my parents griping about the music from the Beatles onward. They always complained that songs used to have words you could sing along with.
Time flies like the wind...fruit flies like bananas.
Time flies like the wind...fruit flies like bananas.
I listen to an online station run by a man who has a daily show during the week lasting two hours and he will sometimes say The Beatles had some good songs, as long as they are performed by someone else.
I'm even more out of touch musically as I don't tend to like oldies. The format of the station I mentioned would be described as "adult standards", but with more "easy listening" instrumentals than most of those stations have.
Where they were is a big part of it. Back then we weren't as "connected" as we are now, and for those of us who grew up in a small town in the Midwest, it was "cool" to watch something edgy coming out of New York. Late night TV at the time was Johnny Carson and...not much else, and The Tonight Show was really aimed at our parents' generation. Yes, there were up and coming comics (Letterman, Garry Shandling, etc.) but it was more about Johnny sitting at the desk and talking to old school comedians who had played the Catskills and had variety shows back in the days of B&W TV. SNL took you on a journey. Being able to go (virtually) to a live sketch comedy show in New York City was like a whole other world for a small town kid. Plus you didn't have to actually GO to NYC and deal with the crime and the grime and the scourge of disco music.
I thought it had something to do with biscuits.
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