THIS VIDEO WAS RECORDED 45 YEARS AGO:
TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW ANCIENT THIS MIGHT SEEM TO TODAY'S GENERATION OF 20-SOMETHINGS, 45 YEARS BEFORE THIS VIDEO OF ELVIS WAS RECORDED, IT WAS 1923:
THIS WAS ALSO A HIT: PAUL WHITEMAN'S ORCHESTRA RECORDING OF "I'LL BUILD A STAIRWAY TO PARADISE":
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO ALSO NOTE THAT TODAY'S YOUTH IS MUCH LESS CULTURALLY CONNECTED TO THE THINGS WHICH MADE US BOOMERS WHO AND WHAT WE ARE, THEN WE ARE TO WHO AND WHAT OUR PARENTS - (WHO WON WW2) - AND GRANDPARENTS - (WHO SURVIVED THE GREAT DEPRESSION) - WERE AND MADE THEM THAT WAY.
WE GREW UP ON TV WHEN TV WAS B&W AND PLAYED OLD MOVIES WHICH OUR PARENTS HAD SEEN FOR A NICKEL.
JOHN WAYNE. HUMPHREY BOGART. CARY GRANT. MARLENE DIETRICH. INGRID BERGMAN. GRETA GARBO. WE SAW THEM ALL.
WE SHARED A CULTURAL HERITAGE WITH OUR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS.
NOW KIDS PLAY 3D VIDEO GAMES AND KNOW AS MUCH ABOUT THE 20TH CENTURY AS THEY DO THE 12TH CENTURY.
WHICH IS TO SAY THEY NEXT TO NOTHING ABOUT IT. THEY'VE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF LEAVE IT TO BEAVER" OR "I LOVE LUCY" OR "GREEN ACRES".
MANY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF "SEINFELD"!
IT'S SAD.SOMETHING HAS BEEN LOST... AND WILL ONE DAY BE AS DISTANT AS THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE....
SIGH...
1 comment:
We live in an amazing time right now, though.
I do agree a lot is lost. It seems impossible to explain it to my kids, but whatever. I remember listening to my depression era parents talk about life when they were kids, and it seemed kind of like a cross between the Little Rascals and Huck Finn.
I don't know what kids today would reference to even begin to understand what my life might have been like when I was a kid, a teen. There are some movies which tell that story with some accuracy,
Dazed and Confused
Stand By Me
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Breakfast Club
And, I think, somehow, kids would have to listen to Led Zeppelin and realize that that was the biggest and best thing of the mid-70's. Somehow that really resonated with a whole generation of kids.
Thing is, now kids live in a kind of wild west atmosphere, but it's on the internet. The lives they live, the space they live in is completely inaccessible to me, and I'm a pretty fucking savvy parent, given that I've been running websites for years.
No way I could keep up with my 14 year old though.
:)
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