Another one hit wonder although their one hit did hit Number 1.
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Tricking younger people into listening to 1970s music?
- Thread starter kevtronics
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Another one hit wonder although their one hit did hit Number 1.
The iHeartRadio DJs give out their Twitter handles, so presumably that's where their requests are coming from.
And again today they ran a "Variety from the '80s to Today" liner and immediately followed it with "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" from 1976.
"The Rapper" and it had nothing whatsoever to do with hip-hop.
Wouldn't that have been the other way around? Jaggerz (from Pittsburgh, I believe) had their one big hit in about 1970, while Wild Cherry hit big in '76.
Who said that it did?
No one did. I was referring to the name of the song, in retrospect.
Oh, okay, gotcha. For the longest time, I thought that he was saying "rafter," mainly because they were rhyming it (or trying to!) with "after." Hey, I was just a kid at the time!
"Uptown Funk", which I heard for some reason while changing stations, sounds like the 70s to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjK9zRdZGAA
Edie Brickell's group just released a song in the past year called Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - What Makes You Happy. Yes its only seen here on Youtube.
Yes it has this 1970's vibe but the song was done in 2018 though.
Edie Brickell's group just released a song in the past year called Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - What Makes You Happy. Yes its only seen here on Youtube.
Yes it has this 1970's vibe but the song was done in 2018 though.
I just heard a song that was surely from the 70s or 80s but it has "hashtag" in the lyrics. The one clue in the lyrics about the song's title is "24 karat magic", which I think is a recent hit song.
'Hashtag' has been used by the IT community at least since the 50's. Back then it meant 'number'.
But in this case the song is actually "24K Magic" by Bruno Mars. Or at least that's my guess since I haven't looked up the lyrics. It's silly but I won't go to most web sites at home.
According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of hashtag occurred in 2007. Terms for the symbol # include hash mark, pound sign, and, in the geek lexicon, octothorpe.
If you are using the hashtag mark (#) I can tell you I personally used it in coding as early as 1968. If you are talking about its current use (#something) then Merriam-Webster might be correct. It wasn't used as a link way back then but rather as a variable value.
And, of course, it was used to mean 'pound' probably a hundred years before either of us.
It's the "tag" part of the word that's a recent addition. "Hash" and "hash mark" go way back as descriptions of the symbol that looks like an italicized tic-tac-toe board, but the "tag" didn't appear until the symbol found its current use in social media as a way to label a post. And "#" as a symbol for "number" goes way, way back.
Wild Cherry, Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, Randy VanWarmer, Blue Swede and Terry Jacks all say hi.
I don't recall any of these artists/bands defining the 70's but several seemed to do all right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oibrZA34MMo
Leon Bridges - Inside Friend (Official Audio) ft. John Mayer
Yes this song just came out and it has a 70's vibe to the song though.
Leon Bridges - Inside Friend (Official Audio) ft. John Mayer
Yes this song just came out and it has a 70's vibe to the song though.
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