Diki, very well put. Twenty years seems about the cycle it takes to discover which songs have stood the test of time to become standards. 80's and early 90's pop hits are suddenly back in demand (high school/college reunion parties etc) and I'm getting quite a few requests for this era now. Here are just a few of the ones I do :

Red Red Wine (UB40)
I Swear (All4One / John Michael Montgomery)
Dance The Night Away (Mavericks)
Kokomo (Beachboys)
You Can't Hurry Love/Groovy Kind Of Love (Phil Collins)
Fields Of Gold (Sting)
Right Here Waitin For You (Richard Marx)
Every Breath I Take (the Police)
Stuck In The Middle With You (Stealers Wheel)
Tear In Heaven/ Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)
Come Dancing (the Kinks)
If You Don't Know Me By Now (Simply Red)
Good Thing (Fine Young Cannibals)

Scott

Me neither. Having the fortitude to weed thru the all crap of contemporary tunes to find that song(s) of which I think I'm able to adapt my vocal & kb playing style garners broader younger audience appeal and enhances the act. For example: I'm now working on my rendition of James Blunt's 2007 hit: "You're Beautiful", of which I am guessing will eventually become a classic hit of this 2K decade. I'm not going to wait 20 years to find out. Scott

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yes, I've read the damn post, I don't get mad, just amusing.......I actually don't care to have an approval to what I like or listen to......you have your opinion, guess what,. other people have theirs as well

and just because I mentioned some old stuff, it didn't mean I don't listen to new ace, I listen to "Pete Levin" on B3, and Russell Malone as much as I listen to Jimmy Smith, and Kenny Burrell.......to me the "old stuff" still sounds good, so I listen to it. Interesting, some of the new rock/pop stuff that I like(The Wall Flowers, Maroon 5 for example) sound like formular from late 60 or 70's to me.

I've never heard of these guys, but I don't think I'd like any one alive more than I like Steve Tyrell. He' been doing music for movies and producing for others for years but he himself has just become more famous doing vocals in the last decade I think.

Love all Steve Tyrell's stuff, I like his voice, he gave new rendition to old stuff, his rendition of "The nearness of you" is awesome.BTW, from DNJ's post I went to listen to Patrizio ?'s version of "you're my world" pretty boy can sing, so thanks for that.

I agree with Donny, I love Patricio and the music he has brought back. And in my opinion, there is nothing better than Sinatra, who I saw on many occasions from 1974 on, Tony Bennett, whom I've seen many times and been photographed with, and the Do Wop era, I played for the Terry Johnson Flamingoes and Bobby Cook Platters during the 70's. This is music that IMO can't be beat. I will love it till the day I die.

On with the music!

Joe

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Sorry I almost forgot the beginning of this thread. Scott, I saw Peter Cincotti a couple of years ago at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore. His show was great and he was really cool. When he was sitting down to the piano for a couple of songs, a cell phone in the audience went off and without missing a beat he said, "If it's for me I'm not here." Later that evening we met him and bought him a drink. He is a really nice and very talented young man.

Ciao,

Joe

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For every "Stairway to Heaven' there was a 'Yummy Yummy Yummy, I've got Love in my Tummy'

For every Duke Ellington, there was a Paul Whiteman...

The 'good old days' were no more all 'good' than today is all 'bad'.

Sorry if that upsets a few of you that would prefer to pretend that EVERYTHING was good, back then...

And the whole point of listening to the best of today's music (if you can be bothered to find it! ), is NOT to replace the music you already love, it is to ADD to it...

That's the beauty of music. You don't have to STOP loving one kind of music, just to be able to like another.

Perhaps some of us can remember our attitudes towards the previous generation, whether our parents or grandparents, or much older musicians, that simply could NOT get into 'modern music', and decried it as 'utter rubbish'. Perhaps it was the Beatles being mocked. or Sinatra (remember, he was widely criticized for his crooning by the previous generation), but you probably remember the scorn you heaped on these 'unhip' 'Squaresville' 'fuddy-duddies'.

It's our turn now... do we try to be BETTER than those we scorned, or do we join them? Do we become the very thing we hated as youngsters? Closed-minded relics incapable of recognizing talent when we heard it? Unwilling to give anything new an even break?

Or do keep an open mind, and a sense of inquisitiveness that our predecessors somehow lost?

It's OUR turn, now...