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Okay, mostly I'm in love with Simon and Garfunkel. What pre-80sish music makes you happy? A Hazy Shade of Winter is one of my most favorite things ever, and I really really really need to get hearing aids again so I can enjoy it properly once more.

(I think possibly they were on crack when writing At the Zoo though. Elephants are not kindly, or dumb. Maybe they're part of the elephant conspiracy to lull us into thinking they are big sweet gentle giants.)

(I think also possibly they were just on crack all the time, but that's another question.

Oh, my. I am an oldie, myself, so the list is quite extensive. I am a big S & G fan, myself. I have gotten my 11 yr old into them, too. We're big Beatles fans in this house. I like a lot of classic rock, although I don't listen to it very often. Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix.

I also like even older oldies. I am a fan of swing, blues and big band music: Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, etc. Love.

Weirdly, I don't really consider 60s and 70s music (which is what I listen to the most) to be "oldies". "Oldies", to me, is like 40s and 50s stuff.

I don't have a list of artists right now, but I'll be coming back to this thread.

I, too, regard the 50s-mid 70s era as "classic", particularly in pop, rock, and rock 'n' roll. When it comes to Oldies, I have to say the music of Robert Johnson, and he was the epitome of the delta blues musician who makes a deal with the devil at the crossroads. Only two photographs of him exist, but he's got quite the enduring legacy. ♥ Robert Johnson.

Also dabblings with Fallout have made me discover The Ink Spots, and this incredibly haunting crooning from Al Bowlly (the song from the end of The Shining)


...That old enough for ya?

Fuck yeah S&G!

Umm I really like two of The Vogues' songs, "Five O'Clock World" (reasons to love this video are many; they include 1) backup dancers dressed in overalls and construction hats & miming factory work 2) extreme handsomeness, 3) yodeling) (all links are to youtube videos) and "You're the One." I like the double lead vocal style.

Going by the OP's definition of oldies as anything before the 80s, I was basically raised on oldies, so...this would be quite an extensive list. I know Tina Turner is still around, for example, but her cover of "Proud Mary" is one of my absolute favorites and it was released *looks up* 1971. (And Creedence Clearwater Revival do some great songs I grew up with as well, Bad Moon Rising, Down on the Corner, etc.)

Speaking of covers, one really interesting gender flipping cover, where the cover became more popular than the original, is Linda Ronstadt's "Different Drum." That was originally written for men to sing, it has lines like "I ain't sayin' you ain't pretty" and "You cry and moan and say it will work out, but honey child, I've got my doubts" which is pretty sexist but becomes interesting, if still sort of condescending, when Linda sings it.

Ooh ooh and I like couples duets, I could listen to Sonny and Cher sing "I Got You Babe" for HOURS and I'm very fond of June Carter and Johnny Cash covering "It Ain't Me Babe" even though the two have practically opposite messages, hahaha.

Just one more: Etta James singing At Last. Whoa! OK, that's it for now.