One of my (30ish) coworkers who is addicted to Michael Buble has begun playing the “greatest hits” of Barry Manilow.
Extreme remedies are contemplated.
If Streisand enters the equation I can’t be held responsible for what may ensue.
I got the impression, at the time, that this “older crowd” was pretty much anyone from about thirty on up the late forties. I remember my uncle had Herb Alpert in the eight track in his sports car; as he was a single doctor still dashing about with the ladies (and doing fairly well at it), it gives one example as to the set and setting where this type of music might be found. I was about thirteen myself, but I also had some Alpert records alongside the Beatles and others.
Today I think most of the thirty to fifty crowd still listens to rock or some variant of it, although not the same music as their children, and also alongside other types of music as our tastes mature (or for some of us).
After visiting quite a few thrift stores in my hometown, I’m going to bump this thread and ask: were barbershop quartets, organ music and patriotic marches popular in the 1960s? The thrift stores are loaded down with LPs of such music from the era, along with the usual “and His Orchestra” performers.
I’ve seen a lot of ragtime LPs too, but there was supposedly a brief ragtime revival in the early 1970s that was probably the source of this.
I have in my possession an unopened as in still in plastic Barbra Streisand 8-Track-Tape, it was in a box that belonged to my grandfather. Who would like it? I am taking bids.
50 posts and no one has mention that every thrift store is made, not out of concrete or wood, but boxes and boxes of Trivial Pursuit.
I now live in a very rural, very religious area. I was perusing the albums the other day and every single one of them was some sort of religious thing.
You’d think that sort of thing would have a tad longer appeal. Then again, I work with a religious nut (no really, even the religious folks thinks she’s off the deep end) who brings in CD’s for people of sermons and what-not.
A tasty treat for those who appreciate the greatness of WC&OD:
Whipped Cream & Other Delights Rewhipped (Rhapsody link)
Cheesy knockoff? Depends, what do you think of Ozomatli, Medeski Martin and Wood, or Thievery Corporation?
Give it a listen.
There was, indeed. It was fueled by the use of Scott Joplin pieces in the soundtrack of “The Sting”. I remember a talent show at my grade school at about that time; I think we had 5 different kids playing “The Entertainer”. 