Hi jjj
I used the title that I did because I'd really like your input here.
Recent posts in the forum have dealt with musical tastes and how folks appear to be overly fond - possibly to the exclusion of anything else - of the music with which they grew up.
In my own case, I can remember the first influences coming out of radio when I was around eight years old; anything earlier may have had a lasting effect but that's one of which I'm oblivious. In those early days, music and radio meant, in my case, Radio SEAC, coming out of Ceylon. Our own BBC's David Jacob's velvet tones were the ones that I remember from there. After some years the Brits (oops!) left the area and the station changed its name from its original, military one (akin to AFN), to Radio Ceylon, and went totally commercial, to become much as was Radio Luxembourg which I found in '53.
Now, on top of radio there was the world of the movies, which I saw as often as possible, despite maniacal boarding school, religiously-inspired prohibition, which, in the case of being discoverd going to a cinema, would have resulted in expulsion and severe beatings with a cane. I 'enjoyed' two such cane incidents for various non-sins, the most mentally hurtful being for having been caught reading a library book
after I'd completed my homework... it didn't matter: you had to
look as if you were still struggling with simple stuff - just for as long as it took for the bell to ring and release you from the silly game.
Anyway, those various sources opened me to Dorsey, Miller et al. as well as Clooney, Como, Sinatra and all the usual supects of the late 40s and the early 50s.
Came the mid-fifties and R'n'R burst upon the UK scene, but not before I'd discovered New Orleans and much that developed from there. As with many 'trad' fans I hated 'modern' only to find myself, at the opppsite end of my life, enjoying people like Benny Carter so very much. From that period, I absolutely hated skiffle.
In the end, I suppose that I started this thread to try and understand how you, working in the world of music and dance for a long time, have adapted your own taste in the face of the changing times. Have you honestly liked all the new or do you simply learn about it and keep truckin' with it in order to enjoy the photography and continue making a living? Or, alternatively, does constant exposure simply take you along on the train until you step or fall off?
Something I love a lot, and which keeps me happily dancing on the spot goes like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhNhaZzgp9IRob C
P.S. This invitation to jjj is, of course, equally open to everyone else who feels like it to contribute!
