I disagree.....the best music to me happened between 1928 -1938......having said that,all music is great to who appreciate it.
I do love Motown and the British Invasion of the 60s & 70s. And Rockabilly starting with Buddy Holley through Elvis and on toward Righteous Brothers and Willie.
Yeah, I probably can’t draw a beat circle around it. I love a lot.
Don’t know if it’s the best, but Christmas ain’t Christmas without Bing and Dean doing some of the songs...
What did ‘gentleman’ Crosby do that 2 of his kids felt the need to blow their own brains out in their 50s
Thanks to boomer parents I had an enriched exposure to 20th c entertainment, and my favorites are generally from the 1950’s. The folks say pop music went downhill in the late 60’s. Dad even pinpoints blame: Sargeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club band, a Beatle offering I have only heard a snippet of. He says that pushed it off the cliff.
I find almost nothing comparable in quality, today, to the music of sixty years ago. Especially in pop tunes, Broadway musicals, and individual performers.
So in my 20’s I am on long drives and plugged in to Sinatra, Jolson, the songs of My Fair Lady and Camelot, Sam Cooke, Dinah Shore, Dean Martin, and Elvis Presley.
P.S. I often wish someone would record pop tunes of the twenties without the horrid tinny sound quality. As Joan Morris and William Bolcom did for vaudeville songs.
contemporary Christian music
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzwubyoFKp4ImevaCsMOKZOm0cGYogyu6
Wistful & Blue--Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra (1927)
Here's another disc that he waxed with the Rhythm Boys. In this one, his voice is distinct.
I Left My Sugar Standing in the Rain (aka Mississippi Mud)--Whiteman's Rhythm Boys (1928)
“God Bless America – the nation which showed the world how to sing.”
“The good old days” = Bing, Frank, Nat King Cole, and
dancing under the stars with Fred and Gene.