Pluggers by Rick McKee for September 26, 2012

Unbelievable that Barry Gibb (the eldest of the Gibb brothers) is the last surviving Bee Gee, but nice to know that Barry Manilow’s still trugging. Y’all should know that Gladys Knight is a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convert (so yes, there ARE Black Mormons).

hmph…I stlill buy VINYL!

Unless that plugger is going to live until 124, middle age is roofly (sic) 45. Today’s middle agers are listening to 80/90’s music not Manilow, Bee Gees or Knight.

60 is the new 40 = the new middle age at least here in the home we like to think it is! :-)

I’m way past that collection

What am I, chopped liver? My favorite collections run in the Benny Goodman, Glen Miller set.

…more like very, very late middle age. I remember those music groups (though I didn’t really listen to them) and now I am a young “senior citizen”—63. Love the paisley pattern on his shirt.

pathfindercec: Not to mention Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmananoff, Gershwin, Bernstein, etc.

“Fifty is the old age of youth, and the youth of old age.” — Tolstoy..Actually, people who track this kind of thing find that we tend to gravitate to music that was current in the decade we were born. (Okay, except for classical music buffs. We’re a breed apart!) If you think about that, you’ll see that there’s a lot to it.

Guilty!

I would expect Pluggers to buy their CD’s at some box store not at a local record store. Interesting. Out of character.

I go for the greatest hits collection because CD buying is such a gamble. Todays “projects” are usually 1 or 2 really good songs surrounded by filler. Since the cd’s themselves are so expensive this makes it a gamble. The Greatest hits collections by your favorite bands are a much safer bet.