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Saturday 13 April 2013

What's your era?........

Hello All,

Hope you are all fit and well - the T.V. just lately has been dire and we have taken to putting the radio on from about 8pm onwards most nights and the 2 radio stations that we listen to are Heart and Smooth radio

Carlos on Smooth plays all the old sounds and Heart on a Friday and Saturday play dance and disco classics.

I was born in the mid 50's and I must have been listening to the radio from a young age because when they play the 50's records in 'Call the Midwife' I know most of them........songs like Que Sera Sera by Doris Day (I used to love the Doris Day and Rock Hudson films) Catch a Falling Star by Perry Como and You are my Special Angel by Bobby Helms were played in the series and I knew the words and sung along.

Then there were the 60's - I liked the Beatles, the Who and the Stones when I was young, but wasn't mad about their records, so it's strange that it's now that I really enjoy their music - then later in the 60's I used to listen to radio 1, especially every Sunday night for Alan Freeman to play the charts to hear who was number 1, ( the show before was Sing Something Simple, with the Cliff Adam Singers and it always seemed to go on forever, because at that age, it seemed so boring).

Then as soon  as the charts were finished it was straight over to listen to Radio Luxembourg, in those days I was into the Monkees, the Mama's and Papa's , any Tamla Motown sounds and Reggae was starting to get really popular by then. Sounds like the  Onion Song by Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell, the Supremes, the Four Tops, were all my favourites then.

The early 70's were good, the Stylistics, and 3 Degrees, Mud, early Elton John and Barry White the late 70's and early 80's brought UB40, who I've seen (and sung along with)  probably half a dozen times at Birmingham NEC - they are a brilliant 'live' band - Fleetwood Mac is another favourite from that time frame.

Then the 90's another of my favourite time for music, the prat (first husband) had departed so I used to go out most weekends to pubs and clubs (the children were teenagers by then and out doing their own thing) and I loved the 90's dance sounds like  Ricky Martin, the Spice Girls, Will Smith, Culture Beat, Snap, Micheal Jackson, Mark Morrison, Madonna and Boyzone. Anything with a beat that I could get up and bop to was fine by me and that's why I love to listen to the dance and disco classics on a Friday and Saturday night on Heart.

Back then in the 90's I used to go with a friend to learn tap dancing on Wednesday night, salsa on a Thursday and line dancing on Friday night - then out to a disco on a Saturday - I was working full time and in my 40's by then so it was no wonder that I was shattered by Sunday - tap was the hardest to learn it used to kill me, it was so energetic and such a good work out  - but we'd go from dancing to sounds from the 40's on a Wednesday to Ricky Martin on a Thursday! I used to love the music for line dancing because it was that little bit more slower than the other 2 nights so I would have enough breathe left in me to sing along to the country records, as I tried to follow the line in front of me!

Since the 90's I've quite lost it with what's in the charts now - half the time you can't hear what the words are - I like Adele but really give me the old sounds to listen to any day. Something I know the words to and can sing along to. Just like Carlos plays on his show each night.

So my favourite era.............well the 60's just comes a very close second to the 90's - so what's yours?

There won't be any dance and disco classics tonight - the American Masters (golf) is on all night and that's one sport that I will happily sit and watch

Have a good week

Byeee

16 comments:

  1. Gosh, you have experienced alot of different sounds. I always loved Jethro Tull, evenso he was way before my aera. Then I liked all kinds of folk and folk rock, then diverse world music, now like jazz from Jules Holland, but still will listen to most things on the radio. I like a mix of allsorts.

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    1. I must be older than you Sarina because I remember Jethro Tull - Jules Holland does have some good bands on doesn't he? xxx

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  2. Mine is the 70's, I was born in the late 50's and remember the music from then because I was a teenager then and that is when I first discovered pop music and boys!

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    1. When you're young those two (pop music and boys) do always seem to go together don't they Ann? xxx

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  3. Ha ha ha, "the prat" loved that!
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    1. Always called him that since he cost me 25k to get rid of him...........mind, thinking about it- it was money well spent! xxx

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  5. I was born in the early 60s and loved growing up with all music,but I did enjoy the 70s lots of good bands then.Love Jill xx

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    1. There were some good bands - I loved watching 'Life on Mars' because of all the 70's sounds that they played on there xxx

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  6. Definitely the 70's! My husband and I were dating then and that music brings back a lot of good memories!

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    1. As Ann said pop music and boys seem to go together Jan - it was a good era wasn't it? xxx

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  7. I don't really have an era. I was a teenager in the 80s but at that time I was listening to Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Motorhead. I've always listened to the radio, and Dad used to play records, so I can sing along to things that were recorded before I was born. Smooth is our radio station of choice - it's always on in the car, and I listen to it at home during the day. I also listen to new music because of KL and really enjoyed seeing The Vaccines, Palma Violets, and Noah and the Whale at the Eden Project when we were on holiday last year.

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    1. The 80's were good weren't they Scarlet and Smooth is a good station isn't it - not too many adverts on it, we just enjoy Carlos as the sounds that he chooses always takes us back to our youth xxx

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  8. I was born in 51 and there was always music playing in the house, radio, records or live. We spent old fashioned Saturday evenings with extended family, there was the upright piano, an accordion, a mandolin and a banjo. sometimes we had a guitar and a piano accordion..My Mum was an Elvis fan, my granny liked Perry Como and Connie Francis, my Grandfather was a fan of The Billy Cotton Band Show and The Black and White Minstrels.

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    1. Pam - I remember the Black and White Minstrals and the Billy Cotton Band Show - didn't he used to start each programme by shouting 'wakey, wakey'? Am I right or just imagining it? xxx

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  9. You made me smile remembering Sing Something Simple! My mum and dad used to take my brother and I a 'run' in the car every Sunday when we were young and it was always on the radio on the way home and my brother and I HATED it! To this day I shudder when I remember it! Hubby and I commented recently how we used to always make sure the radio was on on a Sunday night for the chart show - not now though. I love some of todays music (Coldplay, Snow Patrol) but I think the time closest to my heart is the 70's. I was a teenager then and hubby and I met in 1972 so it's our era when we went to concerts etc. We saw Queen, Elton John, The Moody Blues, Cat Stevens, to name a few. Good times lol. x

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