Rock & Roll Oldsters

[sheeplady]

Hilarious article, but how do you ever know what is true or not in that paper?

They had an article the other day about how an adjunct was hoping to at least find a mitten... sometimes I'm not so sure it's satire.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

"I Put a Spell on You,"the original by Screamin' Jay Hawkins.

 

[Edward]

Roger Daltry (71) isn't on the list either. Just think, one day Justin Bieber will be on that list.

Bieber on a list of aging rock and rollers? It could happen - but only by mistake.

 

[philosophygirl78]

Very good, but my melodious ear would prefer:

Or,

And Doris Day's, "Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered." Rita Hayworth did a good version of that song too.
As did: Ella Fitzgerald.

Yes... Very Nice!!

 

[Fading Fast]

^^^ Growing up in the '60s, the great divide was Frank to Elvis - it was a huge generational break with the kids going one way and their parents the other. Then The Beatles and The Stones drove the generations further apart. But now my ear hears Elvis as a very natural evolution on a continuum from Frank. Even the early Beatles and Stones sound evolutionary not revolutionary; "Time Is On My Side" is not that far out of Frank's wheelhouse.

But the big break came with "Satisfaction" and the harder rock sound of the later half of the '60s - something different really was happening there (drug-infused music inspiration, for one) and that sound and style, IMHO, broke the continuum, but not before. Elvis and the early Stones / Beatles were more of a personal style, clothes, hair, etc. break than a musical break - but the culture at the time struggling with the former didn't even want to listen to the music as the personal style so turned them off.

 

[philosophygirl78]

Very good, but my melodious ear would prefer:

Or,

And Doris Day's, "Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered." Rita Hayworth did a good version of that song too.
As did: Ella Fitzgerald.

I also like Rosemary Clooney very much:

 

[HoosierDaddy]

 

[Zombie_61]

Hilarious article, but how do you ever know what is true or not in that paper?

I'll give you a hint:

1. There is a music group named The Rolling Stones.
2. Keith Richards is a guitarist in the group.
3. Charlie Watts is the drummer in the group.
4. Anita Pallenberg is Keith Richards' former girlfriend.
5. Keith Richards is no longer the heavy drug user he once was.

Everything else in the article was made up by someone. Apply that to the entire website, and you'll realize it contains more b.s. than a politician.

Oh, and Keith Richards is currently 72 years old.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

MORE AGING ACTORS & ACTRESSES STILL WITH US;

Sydney Poitier (88)
Olivia De Havilland (99)
Carol Channing (94)
Hal Holbrook (90)
Martin Landau (87)
Max Von Sydow (86)
Robert Wagner (85)
Ian Holm (84)
George Kennedy (90)
Tom Baker (82)
Richard Chamberlain (81)
Maggie Smith (81)
Brigitte Bardot (81)

& many more...

 

[Bolero]

Where does Rap, Hip Hop and all that fit into the Music Genre...???

 

[Frunobulax]

Where does Rap, Hip Hop and all that fit into the Music Genre...???

It's considered an offshoot of square dancing.

 

[Edward]

But the big break came with "Satisfaction" and the harder rock sound of the later half of the '60s - something different really was happening there (drug-infused music inspiration, for one) and that sound and style, IMHO, broke the continuum, but not before. Elvis and the early Stones / Beatles were more of a personal style, clothes, hair, etc. break than a musical break - but the culture at the time struggling with the former didn't even want to listen to the music as the personal style so turned them off.

Different drugs, maybe (n ot least acid) had some influence on the music scene in the late sixties, but that was no more Year Zero for musicians dabbling with drugs than it was for musicians using stringed instruments....

Where does Rap, Hip Hop and all that fit into the Music Genre...???

Well, like pretty much anything else it has roots in Gospel and the blues. The early Blues Shouters were - arguably - the first hip hop guys. Elements of the beat poets too. And the energy and politicisation of all the best folk, and punk rock. Of course, rap as it originally emerged - and still exists more often than many realised - was a very different animal from the 'gangsta' stuff that is popular mong suburban white children who think it shocks their parents.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Where does Rap, Hip Hop and all that fit into the Music Genre...???

Rap/Hip Hop as we know it traces its origins back to one man, Clive Campbell, who called himself DJ Kool Herc. Campbell was a Jamaican living in the Bronx in the late 60s/early 70s. He would host street dance parties where he would play records and talk over them in rhyme. Campbell learned it from Jamaican street musicians, as this type of oral storytelling to music was popular in West African traditions going back centuries and carried over to the slave holding West Indies. It comes from the same place as the blues, so I guess you could say that rap and the blues share a common ancestor.

 

[Edward]

Yip. The first rap gig on record was one Clive ran to raise money for his sister for school.

 

[MisterCairo]

Where does Rap, Hip Hop and all that fit into the Music Genre...???

Between the garbage and the recycling...

 

[HudsonHawk]

You can cross Abe Vigoda off the list. He died today.

 

[GHT]

Oh, and Keith Richards is currently 72 years old.

Are you sure that he's not a time traveller? I mean, he looks at least 1072 years old.

 

[Zombie_61]

Are you sure that he's not a time traveller? I mean, he looks at least 1072 years old.

It's not the years, it's the mileage.

 

[Stanley Doble]

Rap music from the thirties - talking blues, Woody Guthrie

Blondie - Rapture (1980) the first rap song

 

[dinomartino1]

Antoine "Fats" Domino, Jr. (born February 26, 1928)