I often hear Patti Page, the Chordettes, the Four Knights, Joni James and other fifties artists played over the PA system in markets, malls, etc. when I go shopping. Six decades from now, will shoppers be hearing the likes of Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, Psy or Snoop Doggie Dogg?
Who knows, really? If you can remember those days, they said Elvis was garbage and why would anyone want to listen to that now, let alone decades later? Although really if you care to think about it, it was the rock and roll guys that swept the older singers like PP and Bing Crosby from the charts. But that’s neither here nor there.
“I often hear Patti Page, the Chordettes, the Four Knights, Joni James and other fifties artists played over the PA system in markets, malls, etc. when I go shopping”
I’m reminded of that time when Michael Savage was complaining how he went in a mall during the Christmas season and instead of playing White Christmas, they were on this ghettoblaster music.