The Classics!

Is there still some people who listen to music from the 50's and 60's?

I am doing another project for my English Honors class this semester on Oldies music. I figure.. since she didn't like my last project, that I would do something she could relate to. She is pretty old.. so why not?

I listen to oldies but I don't know a lot about it. I tried researching it, but only got.. like ''GREAT DEALS ON OLDIE MUSIC''.. stuff like that.

I would be very pleased if someone could lend assistance. I cannot really ask my grandparents.. they are dead. And.. the old people around me are cranky. So.. yeah. THANKS!

Thank you Donald and Bob.

Uh.. can you answer a few questions? Beside this one =) ha.

Well.. now since the poem Bob posted.. I see that they sang about what's real.. like life. Not about stupid shit no one cares about.

But, Was it always just about life and how to get a girl, the smooth way, not the player way?

Was a major part of the music about love?

Theres just a few. I'm sure I will have more later on. Thank you both.

ALSO...

''I'm old and listened to the music of the 50s. I was there when r&r started. So maybe I could answer some of your questions. Maybe...''

Donald.. you mentioned r&r. What exactly is r&r?.. I don't mean to sound like an idiot. But I need to know everything. Or else I will get another grade I don't deserve. Thanks hunn.

Oo. Thank you. And the other questions? Do they get answers. Or.. is that to out there, for no one to know what they really sang about?

Oh.. Heh. I read that over. I sounded mean. I'm not mean. lol.

Along with my Pitchshifter, Black Sabbath, Soundgarden, Beck, Jack Johnson blah blah blah cd collection in my car I also have three outstanding Ella Fitzgerald cds, two Ray Charles and a also a couple of Jonny Cash and Sam Cookes...

The oldies are great.

Lmao.. thank you guys. =)

Chuck Berry will always be the King of rock and roll to me. To suggest Elvis would be a joke, even though I like him. I like all music except country, and I am a big fan of 50`s and 60`s music. "Lucille" by Little Richard is one of my all time favorites.

Thanks Bob. Anddddd Donald. anddd.. uh.. Tim?

Sorry country fans, but when I first heard Robert Plant sing" Whole Lotta Love", I just couldn`t find it in me to rock out to "Thank God I`m a Country Boy".

On this note, I will say that there isn't any kind of music that hasn't found a place in my music collection. Well, outside of Opera.

I have really gotten in to listening to the blues. I love Luther Vandross, Otis Redding, and Marvin Gaye. They are more Soul than Blues, but still...

Now, if you want to listen to some good blues. Stevie Raye Vaughn is the king. No one can play the blues better than him. He may not have been around in the beginning, but he is the one that put them on the map. But his inspiration came from bands like Muddy Water and such. Which is real old school.

Of course, we are all intitled to our own opinion, but the blues was the birth of alot of different forms of music.

Happiness
Jeannie

I love Jazz and oldies. =)

Stevie Ray Vaughn, now that is true musical bliss. I saw Stevie Ray and Double Trouble 3 times in my life, and it was better every time. Also try to listen to Howlin` Wolf..a true bluesman for which Clapton, Page and Vaughn idolised.

Lol. Alright.

Okay. thanks.