Posted on 01/05/2015 12:41:05 PM PST by Red Badger
Doubtful. But somebodies gotta believe.
Are you hearing it on popular radio stations or classic rock stations? Are the places you’re hearing Beatles also playing Kanye? We live in a subculture world, things don’t necessarily mix that much. Though I still think most of these folks are leg pulling.
1915 was not a fair comparison
How would a group get huge with no radio? People were still buying sheet music for home entertainment!
“Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe”
Is it on Youtube? :p
Yup, leg pulling:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6429435/kanye-fans-asking-who-is-paul-mccartney-joking
I always thought they were a rail carrier now rolled up into Burlington Northern.
(Though I do know something about the song—there’s a radio station in Dallas that plays classic rock)
I see ads for some TV series about black music producers or something but the music running with the ad is Ozzy Osbourne.
Revelation Mother Earth (From Blizzard of Oz back in the 80s)
I’m gonna have to pay more attention to the Empire commercials. Still not watching the show though.
Yes, as I said the changes in communications media will impose a different cultural scenario.
Only on moldy oldie stations that play yesteryear's hits (and they've now scoped away from the songs of the 50s, playing 60-70s-80s).
Rock of today is unlikely to even be heard on radio these days.
And if number of stations for a format indicate popularity then Tejano (on AM and FM) is huge, bigger than either modern rock or classic rock combined.
‘Sir McCartney’ ?
-JT
Who the hell is Kanye?
You are both correct, a railroad, and a Youtube classic:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=atchison+topkeka+and+the+santa+fe
I like the one with Judy Garland’s album cover. Man, did she look hot ! Thanks, to both:)
I thought, "50 years??? That can't be right! A half-century?". I googled it and the Rolling Stones band was formed in 1962! 53 years ago! Holy moly!
Taking Chicago as an example, the most listened to radio station is WVAZ - which is ‘urban adult contemporary’. No Beatles records are played there I assure you.
In those days when radio and the recording industry were just getting started, you didn't have popular recording groups in the same way you did later.
Probably the equivalent would be a successful songwriter like Irving Berlin. I suppose 60s kids did have an inkling of who Irving Berlin was -- more from the movies and Christmas songs than from his earliest tunes -- but they probably didn't much care.
Of two alternatives -- everybody being fixated on the popular culture of 60 years back or young people never learning who Paul McCartney was -- the latter may actually be better. The problem is that they also never learn some things that are a lot more important.
"2014-"Paul performed the closing concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco on Thursday night where Giants and 49ers fans said goodbye to the stadium after more than 50 years"
2014-"Legend: Sir Paul, 72, rocked the Dodgers Stadium on Sunday evening performing many of his iconic hits and new material"
"Kanye West 'hopes to collaborate with Paul McCartney on upcoming album'"
DailyMail August, 2014.
“George Bush hates Black people.”
Kanye West
HD Radio is your friend here. Also, Infinity Broadcasting puts up its digital radio feeds on the Internet.
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