Talk:Oldies

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"Caught you with your back field in motion. Gonna have to penalize you!" - The Intruders Took the stub coding off this and delisted it from the stubs list as I think everything is said about the topic that needs to be said. Word count is 200. Not every subject is deep as the ocean. If someone wants to amplify, I would suggest more example artists or songs, although the list given seems pretty representative. Perhaps something on the anthropology/psychology of aging and the experience of finding your generation's defining music has entered the Oldies category would be worth adding. I would put something in about the experience of hearing Bob Dylan on the Muzak system at my local mega-grocery, but that would be original content. I think the key word to link would be 'dysphoria' Here.it.comes.again 05:18, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Moved long artist list to own page
As the list was getting very long I moved it to it's own page. It would be be appropriate to provide some examples in this article but due to size of article concerns we should keep the long list on it's own page. --Cab88 18:27, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Added sources
It didn't take me long to find a web site which read like parts of this article.Vchimpanzee 20:43, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Fixing up this article
This article is a mess. I'm fixing it up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by OregonD00d (talk • contribs) 21:36, 22 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Good work so far. Keep it up. Graham 87 04:18, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

External links modified
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Oldies aren't older than The Beatles
According to the article on The Beatles, "in 1968 the programme director of New York's WABC radio station forbade his DJs from playing any "pre-Beatles" music, marking the defining line of what would be considered oldies on American radio." The claim is supported by a citation. I haven't tried to edit Oldies to include that information. Feel free. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.134.13.20 (talk) 02:55, 7 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note. I'm not sure I'd agree with that statement entirely – the Oldies article makes several references to the 1950s – but it's an interesting one. Graham 87 04:05, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Swing era oldies
When I hear the term "oldies" it's the generation before that: the swing era and crooners. The first scene of "The Wall" movie, cartoon music, Italian-American restaurants, etc. The radio industry may define "Oldies" as 1950s rock and related music, but the term is widely used for pre-rock jazz music. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sluggoster (talk • contribs) 20:16, 9 August 2021 (UTC)