I talk to young people all the time and close to most of them would rather live years ago.
With real music like this around back then, I don't blame them.
I'm 73 and remember so well how elders acted this way towards rock music. My church called it devilish so I gave away my collections. We have this attitude still, look at comments and youth rebel at our past also. I started looking at today's music and some are very good. I'm integrated now and listen to the music and not the ERA. Try it. Oh, I quit church.
Hey, that scene has got to be from the movie “Rock Around The Clock” featuring Bill Haley and the Comets; it hit the silver screen in 1956. The band was on their way to being the Kings Of Rock And Roll until some kid from Tupelo, Mississippi by way of Memphis blew their doors off and they were consigned to the oldies circuit. But for two years Bill Haley and the Comets kicked some musical ass. Haley was just 55 years old when he passed away. I had arrived in West Germany, got settled in, and watched Dick Clark on Armed Forces Television that originated from Rhein-Main Air Base the following Sunday afternoon. There was a gang of musicians backing some old footage of Bill Haley and the Comets singing “Rock Around The Clock”, and one of them was Charlie Daniels swinging his fiddle. Great tribute.
I'll be 74 this year. When you think of it, the birth of R'n'R came only some ten years after a war that had in one way or another affected everybody. Younsters having "fun" didn't compute for the more elderly. The Charleston had had a similar effect years earlier. We must not judge too quickly, we must . . . . just rock with the wind.
I am ten years old and I LOVE music like this, and my friends are like do you know this song. I only know because of my cousin, but headphones are glorious for this type of music!