[blueunicorn6]

Let’s see.......1964 to 2013 is....almost 50 years. Let’s subtract 50 years from 1964....that would be 1914. Were the people in the 60s going on about groups from 1914?
“Surrender gracefully the things of youth.”

[workerbee]

Let’s see.......1964 to 2013 is....almost 50 years. Let’s subtract 50 years from 1964....that would be 1914. Were the people in the 60s going on about groups from 1914?

You know, my husband and I talk about that very thing sometimes.... how current generations view "the past" versus how we, in our mid/late 40s, might. The obvious difference is the proliferation of audio & visual media. Take Star Wars, for instance. The original movie came out in 1977 -- I was 10 yrs old then. But any 10 yr old kid today knows as much, or more, about the Star Wars universe than I do. Same with music. Without the types of media we have today, we wouldn't see aging rockers like the Rolling Stones still touring.

[Secret Agent Man]

when you’re three and you drop your pants, people laugh, and think it’s funny. when you’re sixty, .... looking like you do, it’s.....disturbing.

[Kirkwood]

“Were the people in the 60s going on about groups from 1914?”

They were about George M. Cohan! Even a century later Cohan’s music is extremely popular and several songs are known by most people. Go to YouTube and there are 15,600+ listings for George M. Cohan.

[donmeaker]

Ray Charles did a version of Alexander’s Ragtime Band (by Irving Berlin in 1911) in 1959. Al Jolson did a version in 1947, Nellie Lucher had done one in 1948, Johnnie mercer in 1945, and it was a hit too. Louis Armstrong did one in 1937, and Bessie Smith did one in 1927. All together, there were 6 version of it that were big hits.

So yes, there were people who did old songs that were hits in the 50s.

[Kirkwood]

Check this video clip from 1959...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq8RYGRqvHY

[Revolting cat!]

1914? Dude, why go back so far! By 1969 people weren’t listening to the stuff from 1959. Careers of such people as Roy Orbison, Rick Nelson, the Everly Brothers, Fats Domino, Little Richard, even Bob Dylan’s first employer Bobby Vee were in the toilet. Jerry Lee Lewis was doing country.

[a fool in paradise]

Were the people in the 60s going on about groups from 1914?

Woody Gutherie, Pete Seeger, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Bob Dylan, and John Fahey were. Meanwhile the British art school crowd were digging old records by Leadbelly, Bukka White, Son House, and Robert Johnson. Today's hipsters? Not so much.