Sixties and Oldies

[ethan at magicnet.net]

Paul Mackin writes:
>
>I have been thinking about this possility in connection with the pop
>music of the sixties and ever after.  Seems to me there were
>two important innovations--1) the political content of the commercial
>songs we listen to, and 2) THE CONCEPT OF THE OLDY!
>
The spread of music of the past is a relatively recent phenomenon because
of the recent glut of recorded music.  With the creation of CD's, well
recorded, easy to take care of music was suddenly available.  Obviously,
people had record collections before CD's, but the market for CD's is much
greater.  Starting in the 80's, everyone began having collections of music.
And record companies, in their business-savy way, capitalized on this by
re-releasing scads of old records, that were often out of print.  So all
this music was suddenly again available.
                                                        Ethan