What Was Your Favourite Year For Popular Music?

Whatever it was, choose any, from a selection of about twenty, or listen to them all in sequence, from any year, from 1940 to 1999.

http://upchucky.com/JukeCity/music-room.htm

 

I'm a 60s person and love Country and Western and Folk .. but I change with the times and have no particular favourite era as they are all equally good. Currently I like this ...

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSSjYFPTRAQ&feature=related"]YouTube - jace everett - bad things[/nomedia]

 

Yes, I'm the same, I think the 60s was the best ever time for popular music.
Particularly liked Elvis, Johnny Mathis, P.J.Proby - even though he couldn't keep his trousers together!!!! :yho::yho:

Val

 

There's been lots of music I liked in every decade from the forties until "the death of vinyl."

 

Death in vinyl brought on breath in opening up to what's out there.

I too like all decades in music (I was a dance ice skater in the 60s) but there is something new with each decade .. whether we like it or not. When I met my husband I was into Henry Mancini and Liberace at the time ... my t'other half who was a heavy metal) .... eeek!) basically stays in the 70s/80s.

I migrated to Country and Western and folk when I had to give up ice dancing after a bad fall. I now listen to everything and embrace new music ... and I hope i will continue to do so. :yho:

 

Also a big fan of country and western incl. Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash and lots more but the favourite hass to be the 'Rock and Roll' years with Elvis, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and others.

Am also a fan of the big bands especially Count Basie and Stan Kenton, plus the operas of Puccini, particularly La Boheme - beautiful music............

 

Absolutely agree :thumb: add to that Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and Piano concerto No.1 - takes your breath away!!

 

Thank you for the link Doghouse. I've saved it and I'm sure I'll have a good time with it one wet day.

I love all kinds of music - classical, opera, popular, folk, country.
I think 1961 is the year that stands out for me.
I was 16 and nothing in my life was very good.
Radio Luxembourgh and the charts was about the only pleasure in my life - and I was grateful for it.

 

I've lived with music all my life, I played guitar in a jazz band when I was at school and for many years after that. My wife and I came to a compromise over amplifiers in the house and so I bought an electric piano. I'm on my fifth, when I retired I took up the saxophone. So now I play both, but not at the same time... well actually I do, I record backing tracks on the piano with which I play along on the saxophone. I've about 200 tracks and add a few now and again.
In my teens I and my friends frequented the jazz clubs of south London and when my wife and I first got together, we joined Ronnie Scott's first club in Soho.

I'll listen to anything, but not those "string strummin' cacophonous cowboys" on "Jowls" Holland's "Later" TV programme.
My latest musical indulgence is two vinyl jukeboxes. What amuses me is people of my age who come to see them are filled with nostalgia, want to have a go, but often are frustrated as they have "the wrong glasses" with them so, can't read the title cards!

 

Think about that:
there are two things that make things change.
TIME and SPACE.
Things change through the time (music, people, mentality, landscapes, etc. are not the same nowadays as they were times ago)
and things change through the space (music, people, mentality, landscapes are not the same in the different world places).
Having said that, I find hard to say what is my favourite year for pop music.
Indeed, to me, music from all the years are like "pictures" / "photos" of those years and I like them just because of that.
In the same way I like music from all countries (England, USA, Spain, Italy, France, Middle East, China, South America, etc.).
These musics describe the culture of their countries...
I can say that in every year in the same way as in every countries there is bad music, normal music, good music, etc.
I do not like the fact that radios broadcast only nowadays/our country music.
I would like if radios broadcast every kind of music (rock, pop, country, latino, dance, from 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, from England, USA, Brazil, China, Turkey, Africa, Arabia, etc.).
Nowadays, radios are boring: they always broadcast the same usual five, six songs all the day long !
Personally I get really fed up with those five songs that every day are always, always the same... :ywn:

 

My jukeboxes contain only my favourites.

There's;

50s/60s USA pop.
Motown.
Doowop
70s/80s pop
"Big band"
Classic standards, Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, etc.,
But only records that sound well on a jukebox.

I must have over 3000 mp3s of music of all eras on my computer.
I also download and save Youtube musical clips, I've several hundreds of them,

But some are quite obscure.

Here's an example.

A couple of my favourite "film stars" of the fifties and sixties actually singing.




[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJrPwbBb6zQ"]YouTube - Alan Ladd, Rita Rio - (When) I Look At You (Soundie)[/nomedia]


[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCjH7dj4vkE"]YouTube - Veronica Lake - I Got You Right Where I Wanted[/nomedia]

 

I think we've got some things in common Doghouse.
I played the piano in a local dance band - I think I got £3 a gig, but that was money to me.

I know what you mean about Jools H, but I have had some good finds on there.
I love Azam Ali and Sevarrah Nazarkam (sp ?)

 

Here's two I knew and I've liked on his programme, which I record and wizz through it in case there's someone worthwhile on it.



[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKoKpYsTz9c"]YouTube - Anita Baker (Sweet Love) live[/nomedia]


[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66jG4M8TtqI"]YouTube - India Arie Get it together[/nomedia]

 

im a 60's to 80's person and i still love vinyl. my two fave music band/person is the great roy wood and for the group it has to be pink floyd with and without syd barrett. over all im eclectic in my tastes.

 

Thank you Doghouse. Just as I said . It's not all rubbish on Jools H.
Good finds for everyone on there.