Oldies Goldies

[LeftEyeNine]

I am an oldies addict. As a conservative Turkish, I try not to miss the old movies from 40's-60's which are broadcasted in the "dead time" of TVs, just to hear some old melody.

I need to emphasize that I refer to oldies before the 70's. I am already quite involved in 80's music - love that too.

Frank Sinatra, Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong (my very step-grandfather, shouldn't have died..), Ella Fitzgerald are the ones I currently am closely familiar with.

And I think the best advise would come from you. May you include names with song highlights in your posts, so that I can widen my musical horizon ?

[Reverend Joe]

Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. If you are a conservative, you should still enjoy their blues.

I can't think of any of Janis's good blues songs right now, but try "Jimi Hendrix: Blues". It is an album dedicated to his blues work.

[LeftEyeNine]

Oh, I mentioned myself being conservative in order to underline the contradiction of it against my interest and admire for what the "others" had done done once. It does not mean that, please choose out the way a conservative may like. Music is universal as you know..

[Reverend Joe]

In that case, try Iron Butterfly as well. They are psychedelic early heavy metal- a rather unusual flavor, but if you like them, you will love them. Their best album is "In-a-Gaddah-da-Vida", released in 1968.

[Aenlic]

I am an oldies addict. As a conservative Turkish, I try not to miss the old movies from 40's-60's which are broadcasted in the "dead time" of TVs, just to hear some old melody.

I need to emphasize that I refer to oldies before the 70's. I am already quite involved in 80's music - love that too.

Frank Sinatra, Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong (my very step-grandfather, shouldn't have died..), Ella Fitzgerald are the ones I currently am closely familiar with.

And I think the best advise would come from you. May you include names with song highlights in your posts, so that I can widen my musical horizon ?

Good taste!

If you like Ella Fitzgerald, then try to find some old Bessie Smith (http://www.redhotjazz.com/bessie.html) or Billie Holiday (http://www.ladyday.net/) as well for great ladies singing the blues and jazz.

For jazz along the lines of Louis Armstrong, try some Sidney Bechet (http://www.redhotjazz.com/bechet.html) or one of my personal favorites Django Reinhardt (http://www.redhotjazz.com/django.html). If you can find it, anything recorded by the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, with Reinhardt and the great Stéphane Grapelli will light you up.

For just general good old 1940's big band (http://cfelt.com/bigband.html) music, look for stuff by Bennie Goodman, Artie Shaw, Gene Krupa, Glen Miller, Bix Beiderbeck and Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. You'll find lots of Armstrong on that site, I think. ~;)

1950's, wow. Where to start? Buddy Holly (http://cfelt.com/bigband.html). That'll do for a start. Anything and everything Buddy Holly.

Frank Sinatra type music would suggest other crooners. Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, Eddy Arnold, Perry Como, the incredible Nat King Cole and Tony Bennet.

For the 60's, popular music was all over the place. Maybe you'd like Roger Miller? My father had all of his records. Or Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. We had all of those too. Debbie Reynolds, Sam Cook, Aretha Franklin...

I better stop before this becomes a book.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

A man after my own heart. I love all that stuff. I still like the old movies better than the new ones. They dont have actors like Cagney, Bogart, Edward G Robinson, the Barrymore clan, weell we still have Drew. I also love the bigband sound and newer groups like the Squirrel Nut Zippers and Brian Setzer Band. The old comedy teams are great to, like Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello and finally Martin and Lewis. As to Sinatra the whole Rat Pack was great. These guys could do it all,sing , dance and act. I just got a bunch of the ols Dean Martin Roasts and about 20 episodes of his varitey show on DVD. What a panel. Orson Wells, Jimmy Stewart, Jonny Carson, Ruth Buzzy, Mohamed Ali, Phil Foster, Don Rickles, Bill Cosby and the list goes on.

[Aenlic]

You realize of course, Gawain, that if we could agree on anything other than our taste in music, we'd have to get married or something. ~D