What are your favorite Oldies?
 

I'm trying to find some more older music to listen to, what are some of your favorites? I'll check anything out but I like Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Buddy Holly, Al Green, Marvin Gaye and all that stuff. Thanks for sharing

At what point does an old song become an oldie?

Technically it can go back the the roaring 20s. '38 was a hot year for The Ink Spots.

Cliff Edwards - Thats My Weakness Now (December 7th 1928)


The Ink Spots - That Cat Is High (1938)

I assume he's talking fifties/ early sixties. I guess my favorite artists pre-Beatles would be Chuck Berry, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley (naturally) and some blues artists like John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters with an HM to Howlin Wolf.

Yeah but why stop there? You'll miss out on music of the 20s, 30s and 40s.

The Ink Spots - Slap that Bass


Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five ~ Beans and Cornbread (1949)

I got some oldies for you [MERIT].

Gene Vincent - Spaceship to Mars


Sheldon Allman - Crawl Out Through the Fallout

It's a real shame that Screamin' Jay Hawkins didn't do the Grinch theme.

A gotcha Neo! Let's see if you can handle a little Minnie The Moocher!

Right, it's a shame.

Louis Prima got to play the part of King Louie and David Lee Roth.

Louis Prima - I Wanna Be Like You


Louis Prima Just a Gigolo & I Ain't Go Nobody

Here's the version from THE BLUES BROTHERS film:

Cab looks classy. The Blues Brothers backing band had Donald Duck Dunn and Stever Cropper. They played in Booker T and the MGs which was also the studio band for Stax. They back artists like Otis Redding. Rufus was another Stax artist. He did the Wattstax concert in '73 along with The Bar-Kays, Iscaac Hayes, Albert King and others. The Rolling Stones did a cover of Rufus Thomas' Walking the Dog.

Rufus Thomas - Walking The Dog

In my opinion, it's pretty hard to beat this Eddie Cochran song:

^ This does a great job of conjuring up a more innocent era for American teenagers, which is why I was all the more surprised to hear, at 00:20:

"I bet my penis to a candy bar
You'll be cuter than a movie star."

:yikes: Please prove me wrong!

Here's a novelty song from 1925 which was revived by The Andrews Sisters as the fifties turned into the sixties. I used to enjoy hearing their version on the radio as a kid, but here we are, going back to the source:-

"peanuts"

Merle Haggard was a beast of a miserable country artist.