Sun Records' 60th Anni Compilation

[rick]

theseconddisc.com/2012/05/07/in-case-you-missed-it-sun-turns-60-with-new-compilation/

[erik]

Pretty d***ed extensive list of artists there, for such a great label's 60th.

Just as a footnote:

Harold Jenkins, the artist who has two songs on here ("Crazy Dreams", "Just In Time"), later changed his stage name to Conway Twitty, and scored huge on the C&W charts (and #1 on the pop chart with "It's Only Make Believe" in 1958)

And no, the Gene Simmons mentioned here isn't the same Gene Simmons of KISS (LOL).

[the Scribe]

You really have to like this stuff to buy something like that. Personally I thought early Rock was a lot of noise but then what do I know? Except for his most poplular hits I could never listen to much of Elvis nor Sinatra for that matter. By 1970 I was really burned out by the Motown stuff. I preferred the Pop stuff (as compared to Rock) of that time period that so many of the "cool" people dismissed. We really need a Pop Music Hall of Fame (screw the others). There, I said it!

[erik]

Quote by ronstadtfanaz:

Personally I thought early Rock was a lot of noise but then what do I know? Except for his most poplular hits I could never listen to much of Elvis nor Sinatra for that matter. By 1970 I was really burned out by the Motown stuff. I preferred the Pop stuff (as compared to Rock) of that time period that so many of the "cool" people dismissed.

I look at it this way. At the start back in the 1950s, this "rock and roll" was considered an agent for juvenile delinquency, racial integration and Communism by the skirt-chasing director of the FBI. What other recommendation could one possibly need to get into it? (LOL)

But I have to agree, what is cool and hip in music, according to one's peers, isn't necessarily good 100% of the time. For instance, back in the late 80s, when I was in high school, everyone was into MTV, arena rock, Madonna, and so on, but I never was. Nor have I ever gotten into rap and hip-hop (and I don't think that will ever change). I had no problem whatsoever with disco when it was the literal "rage", and I still don't now either, which is why I never understood the "Disco Sucks" backlash. Most of my peers scoffed at the idea of listening to "dinosaurs" like the Beatles, the Eagles, Linda, or Elvis, or any of the stuff from the 70s, but that had largely been what I have liked the most, and I am very fanatical about that era precisely because few others I knew in high school were.