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In reply to the discussion: I hate to sound like an old fogey [View all]Blue_Adept
(6,411 posts)Access to material was limited and you had what, five TV channels, a handful of radio stations and ~everyone~ listened to the same thing. Look at how TV ratings are these days for the big networks. A shadow of what they were twenty five years ago before cable exploded and people went off elsewhere. They now go for the safest things to draw as many people as they can. Pop radio is the same thing.
Now, if we had 500 channels and the internet back in the 50's and 60's, how much of that music would stand the test of time? Probably not as much because unlike then, only a percentage of people would have heard it compared to now. And the "makers and shakers" of today that incorporate that music do so because it was all they heard as kids so it was their growing up music. Another generation or so and a lot of it will fall to the wayside.