Weirdest debate on my TL: whether a song from 1980 can be called an oldie. Folks, that’s 40 years ago. If you heard an oldies countdown in 1970 and they followed Earth Angel w a song from 1930 about the Crash, you’d freak because that’s so incredibly long ago. #OldiesCountdown
I started listening to oldies countdowns in ‘73/74. Played super old stuff like At the Hop. In the Still of the Nite. Songs that were only about 14 years old. The equivalent today would be playing Single Ladies or Poker Face. Oldies isn’t just 50s/60s.
I get it. It makes people feel old. But 1 of my aims in hosting a countdown was to learn which songs from all previous eras have entered the canon of “classic oldies.” I didn’t need to be taught that about Layla and Stairway.
At some point, every song you’ve ever heard will fall into one giant blob of “oldies.” And I’m fascinated which songs from each era will make the cut. Anyone else? Or is it just 60s/70s and pretend the world ended with Saturday Night Fever?
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