Back when Country was Awesome

[Dockem]

Enjoy! :clapping:

 

[peteg59]

Too much of the crap the music industry passes off as "Country Music" today, really belongs in the Pop 100 category.

Not sure why but it seems that the music execs are trying to convert an established country brand into something its not.

Not many of the up & coming stars in country have ties to, or even try to sound like the country music of the past.

Ironically, in my mind, Hank III even went to a rap style.

 

[Lee H. Mann]

I have SIRIUS at the shop and I listen to this guy all day !!!!!

 

[Dockem]

I have SIRIUS at the shop and I listen to this guy all day !!!!!

"It Was a Very Good Year" will give you chills listening to it. So many good songs.

The Chairman of the Board had the clearest, richest, and most accurate tonal quality of any singer I've heard in my 66+ years. While the popularity of his style of music has somewhat waned, I am in awe of his voice, when I listen to his popular songs.

We lost a lot of great crooners last century. IMHO, Sinatra was the top.

 

[paws]

As time has passed a lot of singers have not continued to put their heart and soul into it. A lot of it is just screeching and screaming that gets the younger crowd’s attention. Then there are a bunch who have trained their voices to sound like other singers who have made the hit lists... used to you could tell by the voice who was singing, right off the bat... much like recognizing cars. Used to, you knew what make, model, and year a car was just at a glance...not so now...so many of them look so much alike... We are having an identity, or lack thereof, crises... :Shrug:

 

[rhino 2]

My Old man , God rest his Soul, Play on his Hi-Fi Victrola Sinatra, Perry Como, Mario Lanza , Frankie Lane...ECT...And i would have to leave the room, Back then i was and still is into Doo-Wop.......Now i love to listen to all the old mans music, And still enjoy Doo-Wop and the 60's songs....My Mother loved to listen to what she called with us coming from Brooklyn Cow Boy Music...

Rogers, Autry, ETC.. And groups like the Sons of the Pioneers..

Now at my stage of the game i like all music........But Rap/Hip-Hop..

 

[Dockem]

Now at my stage of the game i like all music........But Rap/Hip-Hop..

AGREE :clapping:

I keep a 8Gb thumb (flash) drive plugged into the car stereo filled with "Classic Rock", it's getting harder to find these stations on FM.

I Heart Radio has some decent stations geared to "era" music and artists.

 

[wiltat2]

I listen to Willie's Roadhouse. It has a lot of the old country music I grew up listening to.

 

[trike lady]

Miss the days of good radio and real DJs that knew how to do a radio program.

Only someone from New York or New Jersey would know of radio personalities like Cousin Brucie, Wolfman Jack, Don Imus and Casey Kasem.

My father was an Italian and so Frank Sinatra was one that was always heard in the house, along with Glen Miller, the Dorsey Brothers, Artie Shaw and many others from the era of Big Band music.

 

[Dockem]

Miss the days of good radio and real DJs that knew how to do a radio program.

Only someone from New York or New Jersey would know of radio personalities like Cousin Brucie, Wolfman Jack, Don Imus and Casey Kasem.

Au contraire, my Lady. I grew up predominantly the Midwest, schooled on WLS, 890 on the AM, the great Larry Lujack, Art Roberts. et al. We used to frequent the local music shop to get the latest weekly WLS Top Forty Rock chart based on estimated sales of single songs. (I'll never forget the week when the Beatles held the top 10 spots on the chart, not an album, all 45rpm singles!)

But, I definitely knew of Wolfman Jack, Don Imus, and Casey Kasem (Casey had a great show on weekends.) I had heard the name of Cousin Brucie, don't remember hearing him.

Yes, the East coast radio signals made it all the way to Indyanner! Heard about the Wolfman later, tho. Hard to get signals across the Rockies? AM skip/drift was a fun way to hear far off stations.

 

[1dn5up]

Cousin Brucie is on serus XM on the 60’s channel at nights. I think the rest are fertilizer. Except Imus.

 

[rhino 2]

Au contraire, my Lady. I grew up predominantly the Midwest, schooled on WLS, 890 on the AM, the great Larry Lujack, Art Roberts. et al. We used to frequent the local music shop to get the latest weekly WLS Top Forty Rock chart based on estimated sales of single songs. (I'll never forget the week when the Beatles held the top 10 spots on the chart, not an album, all 45rpm singles!)

But, I definitely knew of Wolfman Jack, Don Imus, and Casey Kasem (Casey had a great show on weekends.) I had heard the name of Cousin Brucie, don't remember hearing him.

Yes, the East coast radio signals made it all the way to Indyanner! Heard about the Wolfman later, tho. Hard to get signals across the Rockies? AM skip/drift was a fun way to hear far off stations.

Late Sunday nights when i was a kid in Brooklyn, The only station broadcasting Rock n Roll that i could find was WOWO out of Ft Wayne Ind......That was a lot of years ago..

 

[Pooch]

As time has passed a lot of singers have not continued to put their heart and soul into it. A lot of it is just screeching and screaming that gets the younger crowd’s attention. Then there are a bunch who have trained their voices to sound like other singers who have made the hit lists... used to you could tell by the voice who was singing, right off the bat... much like recognizing cars. Used to, you knew what make, model, and year a car was just at a glance...not so now...so many of them look so much alike... We are having an identity, or lack thereof, crises... :Shrug:

:Agree: