Posted by Marty Brooks on August 19, 2008 at 00:13:11:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Oldies: The New Hot Thing posted by Jim Surace on August 17, 2008 at 14:12:10:
"To tell you the truth back then I was about 12 years old, so I did go by what was played on the radio often.
But in later years as I got older and my taste for music progressed, I used the national top 100 charts as a shopping list (if you will) of singles that a particlar artist(s)released.
It really didn't matter to me then what it's charted position was.
I pretty much bought without even sampling the song."
No..I bet it had nothing to do with either chart position or how often it was played (other than this gave you the chance to hear it.) I bet when you heard a song that stirred you emotionally, you wanted it. At least that's the way it happened to me. I usually knew the first time I heard a song that I wanted to own it. It didn't matter what the chart position was or if it ever got played again.
Whether it was Shout or Quarter to Three or Blue Moon or Runaround Sue or almost any Beatles song or later, Jimi Hendrix or Richie Havens or the Butterfield Blues Band or the Doors or Van Morrison - I had to have it.
Both in the singles era and in the progressive rock era, I can't tell you the number of times I heard a song once and then went out and bought the record. In fact, one of the things I really miss is being stirred by music that way...it never happens anymore. I can't tell whether it's a factor of age or hearing or whether after almost 50 years of listening to rock, I just don't hear anything new or whether the music is simply not as good.