What Was Your Favourite Year For Popular Music?

I am a 20s person and I like phonograph music





Sorry ! Pardon me !

It just came out of my mouth... :hehe:

Just kidding...



Have a nice day to everyone !

 

I am forever stuck in the 80's......especially the New Wave sounds.....Echo & the Bunnymen, Siouxie & the Banshees, Depeche Mode, OMD, Tears for Fears.........love it!!!

 

Hello Penny - my daughter is the same age and enjoys the same groups in particular, Depeche Mode and Dave Gahan - I even know most of the tunes, haveheard them often enough.....................

My sister-in-law lives in London, Ont. and is over here next week, must be getting cold by now over there.

 

Actually a lot of people are stuck in that era, particularly in the USA. The enthusiasts are of all ages. The appeal for most is finding them and restoring them.

A USA messageboard to which I contribute mainly for the jukebox owner' board, has a whole section devoted to them. Anyone who has one of these machines can get a great deal of help from fellow enthusiasts. Those who just want to find out the value of one inherited, aren't particularly welome.

Here's just one typical discussion topic.

http://www.phonoland.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3502

 

Thats funny, my oldest daughter goes to school in London, which is 3 hours away from me:thumb:

It is cold here, we had snow this morning, and i was texting with my daughter who is in London, and she said its cold, but no snow for them yet:thmb:

 

For some it was the 1940s.

These ten jukeboxes are up for grabs on USA eBay as a complete lot, so far the bids are up to $69,000 but the reserve hasn't been met.

http://cgi.ebay.com/290490785769

Worth looking at the video just for the music, though the Sinatra tune at the beginning and end was never played on a 1940s 78!

 

Hello Penny - I presume that you daughter stays in London in the week, it does seem an awful long way on a daily basis ans having driven upand down to Tpronto many times I know how bad the traffic can be.
When we go over there I spend my time on the golf course in london but we have been North to Barry Sopund and other places.

 

I'll admit that much.
Furthermore, all old things are particularly precious.
I think about old cars, old devices, tools, instruments, etc like old radios, old clocks, old watches, old telephones, etc.
I myself look to them with great feeling because they are something that remind us who we were, how we lived, etc.
Talking about music, I apreciate the innocence and the simpleness of the 20s , 30s music (but also some years later).
They were songs that people use to "hum" or to "whistle"...
These songs had simple words that talked about simple life...
In those years, it was a simple life (no computers, no tv, etc.).
People amused themselves with simple things.
And those songs tell us about them.

 

I've probably mentioned this before, that the popular songs of the of the twenties and thirties, were learned more by the population buying the sheet music to sing along to with a piano, as the spread of radio and even electricity took a long time to be commonplace in the USA.
They couldn't sell sheet music if the tune wasn't one you could sing, whistle, or hum along to and it had to be written within the vocal range of the man in the street. No more than about one and a half octaves.
No wonder the most enduring tunes came from that era.