Lanny:
Do you ever listen to Nom N. Nite (deejay) on Sirius 05 on Saturdays
and Sundays at 3 PM CDT for the Remember Then Hour from the Cleveland
Rock Hall of Fame where he plays song from a particular year?
I think last Sunday he played songs from 1958 (a mere 50 years ago).
The Weaselmeister
In dalton59@..., Lanny and Judy Royer <jylyry42@...>
wrote:
Ah yes, also the Everly Brothers.? I also listen to Sirius channel
5 all the oldies.
Lanny
----- Original Message ----
From: jhdouglas59 <jhdouglas59@...>
To: dalton59@...
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 7:11:19 PM
Subject: [dalton59] Re: Favorite songs of the 50's
Paul:
I can't imagine 576 songs from 1959. That would be about 24 hours
nonstop music. I think that would be a good idea to get these songs
for the reunion.
I searched the web and found a site that listed the top 100 songs.
Mack the Knife was at the top of that list also. You can go to the
website oldfortyfives. com/1959/ htm to see the list of the top 100.
Thanks for your info.
The Weaselmeister
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dalton59@yahoogroup s.com, "Paul Sturpe" <sturpe@> wrote:
Ah yes....the good songs of the 50's.
A friend of mine in the Charlotte area is a music collector. He
also
collects old radio shows (Amos and Andy, The shadow, The Lone
Ranger, theme
songs, advertisements, etc.)
This guy has a radio show every Sunday afternoon from 2-6 pm
where
he plays
music from the 40's, 50's and 60's. He calls it "the good stuff."
He also
knows all the history of the music he plays. The show is on
Gaston
College
Radio, WSGE (FM). It also airs on the internet. I am not sure of
the URL
but can get it if anyone is interested.
I got a little off track here, but the bottom line is that if the
reunion
committee (or anyone else for that matter) is interested in
getting
any of
the 50's music for the reunion, it is ours for the asking, free
of
charge.
I have the top 576 songs from 1959, courtesy of my friend. Anyone
care to
guess the number one song in 1959?.
Paul
PS. The number one song of 1959....Mack the Knife by Bobby Darin
-----Original Message-----
From: dalton59@yahoogroup s.com [mailto:dalton59@yahoogroup
s.com] On
Behalf
Of jhdouglas59
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 5:27 PM
To: dalton59@yahoogroup s.com
Subject: [dalton59] Favorite songs of the 50's
We're blessed to have been there in 1959 to hear live the last of
the
50's music. What's your favorite song from the fabulous 50's?
There
will never be another era like that.
What was your favorite song?
Who was your favorite singer?
Who was your favorite group?
Remember the old 45 rpm vinyls with the big hole in the middle
and
the
lousy sound (which was state of the art then before 33 lp
albums)?
I
thought I had the deluxe record player back then. I think it was
a
Voice of Music (VM) two tone record player with a hinged lid. Wow!
Even though I got an occasional shock from the stupid thing, it
was
as
they say "groovy" (no pun intended since, remember records had
grooves
in them). It must have gone to the great record player in the sky
graveyard. Can't recollect what happened to it. Lost in space I
guess.
I still listen to the oldies on Sirius satellite radio (Channel
05)
and
can recollect (more or less) where I was when they play the songs
of
the 50's with no commercials.
I think I still have my old 45's but I haven't listened to them
in
a
long time because I don't have a record player that plays 45 rpm
records.
I still have a JVC turntable that plays 33 vinyls. The good news
is
that I bought a USB turntable to convert vinyls to CD's or some
Ipod
MP3 (whatever that is--grandchildren understand completely). The
bad
news is that I bought it about six months ago and is still in the
box
waiting for me to comprehend how to get the vinyls converted on
the
computer to CD's. Talk about a generation gap.
Personally, I don't really trust anything I can't see spinning
around.
I made the big step to 8 track tapes, then cassette tapes (which
I
still use to tape recordings from the Sirius satellite radio),
and
CD's. Now that CD's are almost obsolete, I guess I'm almost
obsolete
too. That MP3 thing is a mystery to me.
Like to hear from you if you can remember back that far.
The Weaselmeister
