Does anyone else here collect vinyl records?  I have recently bought some vinyl records after many years of not adding to my collection. I kept my vinyl records from decades ago, but now I am listening to them again more often.  I recently bought albums and 45's of John Denver and the Beach Boys as well as some other artists from the 1960's and '70's.   I like the Beatles and the old rock'n'roll just as much as classical music. I see no conflict in my tastes, and these genres are equally appealing to me.  The vinyl is actually the best way to hear the nostalgia of 1960's and '70's music.  🙂

Do people here like The Beach Boys? I have been recently listening to their music again after many years. I recently bought some reissues of their old records. I always loved songs like Good Vibrations, Barbara Ann,  Be True to Your School, Wild Honey, and many others.  I think the music is coming back and is still popular even though it sounds very dated now being mainly from the 1960’s. People like nostalgia especially when there isn’t much of it in today’s music. The old recordings really sound good after so many years!  🙂

Posted by: @narnian78

Do people here like The Beach Boys?

Absolutely! My teenage years and early 20s were filled with The Beach Boys, Chicago, B.J. Thomas, The Eagles, Bee Gees, ABBA, John Denver, Billy Joel, Captain and Tenille, The Carpenters ...

alongside  Christian artists: 2nd Chapter of Acts, Keith Green, Phil Keaggy, Randy Stonehill, Michael W. Smith, Chuck Girard, Larry Norman, Petra, Sandi Patty, Dallas Holm, The Imperials, Steve Green, Andraé Crouch.

Chicago (their brass was amazing!) and The Carpenters were my favourite secular bands, but The Beach Boys were fairly high up there too. Good ol' 70s rock 'n roll and folky/pop-type music! ♫ ♪ To this day, I have not yet heard a more soulful, beautiful female vocalist than Karen Carpenter.

While I don't currently collect vinyls, I have saved a number of old records from when I purchased them during that time period. As well, I have a number of children's vinyls from my own childhood. And an old Fisher Price record player to play them on.  

@jo 

I actually bought a new turntable a few months ago to play my vinyl records on since my old stereo finally gave out after over thirty years.  The old 33 and 45 rpm records sound really good on the new turntable, and my CD’s are sounding better too with the new tuner. I also bought a few new records with vintage songs on them since the sound had improved so much.  If you have old music from the 1960’s and ‘70’s as I have it may be worth getting new equipment to play it on.  It does seem to put new life in the old recordings.

A glorious new song, "Christus Victor", which we were taught at the Getty Sing! conference this past September, is released to the public today:

And the live Sing! conference video:

I can hardly wait to sing this with hundreds of other Christians tomorrow evening at the Getty concert (an hour away from us)! I love how full of Scripture this anthem is!

Do the people here like Peter, Paul, and Mary?  They were really popular in the 1960’s, and many people still listen to their old recordings. I don’t own a lot of their music, but I find it very enjoyable. I especially like Puff the Magic Dragon, This Land is Your Land, and Blowin’ in the Wind.  They seemed to be exceptionally good at performing other people’s music like John Denver’s Leaving on a Jet Plane and songs by Bob Dylan.  Their music is very lively and inspiring.  🙂

@narnian78 Yes!!! Another group that's a bit "before my time", but as I grew up with parents who had the radio constantly on easy listening / classic hits stations, I'm probably more familiar with the music of the 1960s and '70s than I am with some of the music that was current during my own childhood (the '80s and '90s, though there are plenty of songs from that era that I loved too, and still do).

I love Puff the Magic Dragon too, but the ending always makes me so sad, when Puff's little friend grows up and never comes to play with him any more, "so Puff, that mighty dragon, sadly slipped into his cave." But some years ago I came across a picture book of the song — I can't remember who the illustrator was — and in the final illustration, for the last chorus, Puff, curled up sorrowfully in his cave, suddenly lifts his head as a new child (a little girl this time) comes wandering in to find him... 

I think my favourite Peter, Paul and Mary song — though the version of it that I'm familiar with (from the radio again) is Petula Clark's — would have to be Wedding Song (There Is Love). I'm sure others here will know the one: "The union of your spirits here has caused Him to remain, / For whenever two or more of you are gathered in His name, / There is loooooooove..."   (Seriously, I want that one to be sung at my own wedding, if I ever do manage to find "the one"!! )

In fact, I was just looking it up — I was already aware that Paul of Peter, Paul and Mary wrote it for Peter's wedding — and discovered that the story behind it is really moving, so here it is for others to read as well: The Song I Had to Give Away  

@courtenay 

It is so sad that Mary Traverse passed away a few years ago so the trio no longer exists. I was actually a small child when Puff the Magic Dragon was popular. I remember hearing that song on the Captain Kangaroo show back in the 1960’s.  I guess that shows my age. I think that music was much more creative at that time. At least I think it was more listenable and wholesome. And Petula Clark had a song called Downtown, which was popular around 1965. I don’t remember her version of The Wedding Song, although that was the kind of music I listened to on my transistor radio. It was a simpler time with less technology for entertainment. 🙂