Your first "favorite song"

Because the vast majority of people into that sort of music are in nursing homes and don't spend money on stuff, so advertisers don't cater to them.

 

I'm talking about going back 25 years. Classic rock never included Elvis Presley and the like. Just always seemed like a weird demarcation

 

My toddler daughter loves "I Got You, Babe," and goes into a trance every time she hears it.

It's the most unfortunate thing about parenthood so far.

 

According to my mom, Bad to the Bone was a personal favorite of mine because I would sing it while sitting in my car seat. But the first one I actually do remember being a favorite was Careless Whisper. I heard it on the plane flight from Colorado to California when my family moved here when I was six. Every time I heard that song, it reminded me of being on the plane, in a good way.

 

'Cause those were the "oldies." They were on the air, just on different stations. The two genres catered to different demographics age-wise, therefore were considered different formats.

I grew up listening to those "oldies" stations (WQXI in Atlanta, for one), and kept on listening to them until they all faded away (I mourned when KLUV here in DFW went from a '50s-'60s-'70s format to '70s-'80s). I love the pre-Beatles era. In fact, that's one of my two favorite genres of music, along with Dixieland jazz from the teens to the '30s. And no, I'm not old enough to have been around when either was big.

 

Greatest song ever!

That is one high-dollar video. I wonder if they dropped it in one take.

 

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Remember it vividly playing on the car radio of my mother's Datsun when I was a wee lad.

 

In fairness, music videos weren't really even a thing back then.

 

I denounce this

 

If smartphones and social media had existed in the summer of 81, fresh-out-of-kindergarten Dixiehack would have probably done prison time because mom would have blasted video of my cousin Shawn and I singing a duet of Elvira across every platform imaginable.