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Thanks Pat B
I like that, "old people's music" and "Old Fogies Forever." I remember when we were told that rock was the devili's music and that it would never last. I also remember thinking of all the stuff my grandparents liked as "old people's music." The more things change, the more things stay the same I guess. The tune just sounds a little different when the shoe is on the other foot. Who would have thought that we would stick around long enough to become "Old Fogies?"
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notapoet
on December 29, 2006 at 8:14 PM
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My granddaughter Amy calls rock n roll "old people's music."
But she's learning the guitar, and would you believe? She likes the Eagles. So the young can be educated to the better things. I'm with you on the new stuff -- don't know if it's my fading hearing (too much loud rock) or what, but I can't pick up the words among all that whining and screaming. Old Fogies Forever... :)
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Pat_B
on December 29, 2006 at 8:50 AM
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Thanks, scoop
You brought back a few fond memories of my own. In the early sixties in NC most of the AM radio stations shut down at dusk or reduced their wattage. FM music back then was strictly for elevators. So after dark we tuned into the same stations you were listening to. I never did any radio work myself, but in addition to my retail stereo component and record shop I did mobile DJ work in the late seventies through the early eighties. It was fun at first, but when p-funk evolved into rap I couldn't take it any more and quite the DJ work. You're right about what a long, strange journey it has been. Thanks for reinforcing my memories.
You take care, as well, and Happy New Year!
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notapoet
on December 28, 2006 at 7:39 PM
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notapoet, I can relate
back in the 50's when I was 9 or 10 I got into music out of NYC with stations like WNEW and WMGM with DJ's like Peter Tripp and Martin Block. Then the 60's hit and it was WABC, with Dan Ingram, Cousin Bruce and WMCA with Murray the K. Then in the 70's it was Wolfman Jack and Don Imus. I started to DJ in high school in the mid60's and then drifted from it until the 80's and 90's when I did some weddings and school dances and then landed a part-time job with an FM station after I got my FCC license. I did some Saturday night parties on the radio and we did remotes but then the system changed, they went automated, changed formats, from rock to county, to oldies, to countries and sold the station and so on. I remember playing albums, 45's, carts. cassettes, and the finally CD's which is now slowly dying.
I was fun but what a long strange trip its been.
Take care
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scoop
on December 28, 2006 at 7:24 PM
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