COUNTRY WESTERN
1978
The Oldest Boomer is 32 years old.
Cost of the Average House: $62,500
Median Family Income: $ 15,060
Minimum Wage: $6.17
New Car:
Chevrolet Chevette: $3,644
Chevrlet Camaro Z28: $6,326
Dodge Magnum XE: 5,509
Pocket Radio: $2.99-$5.99
Music: Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson, “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys.” Dolly Parton, “Here You Come Again,” Kenny Rogers, “The Gambler.” John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John, “You’re the One That I Want,” and “Summer Nights.” Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams, Too Much, Too Little Too Late.” Bruce Springsteen, “Prove It All Night.” “Grease.” “The Last Waltz,” The Band. Player “Baby Come Back.” Rolling Stones, “Miss You.” Barry Manilow, “Can’t Smile Without You” and Copacabana, At the Copa.” Earth Wind and Fire, “Got To Get You Into My Life.” Chaka Khan, “I’m Every Woman.” Billy Joel, “Just The Way You Are.” The Carpenters, “Sweet, Sweet Smile.” Crystal Gayle, Talking In Your Sleep.” Electric Light Orchestra, “Mr. Blue Sky.” Black Sabbath, “Never Say Die.” Eric Clapton, “Promises.” Andy Gibb, “Love Is Thicker Than Water.” Rod Stewart, “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” Dionne Warwick, “Déjà vu” Alice Cooper, “How You Gonna See Me Now.”
Movies: “The Deer Hunter,” “Coming Home,” “Heaven Can Wait,” “Midnight Express,”” An Unmarried Woman,”
Superman,” “the Wiz,” “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
TV: “Taxi,” “WKRP in Cincinnati,” “Different Stokes,” “Incredible Hulk,” “The Paper Chase,” Fantasy Island,” “Mork & Mindy” with Robin Williams as Mork. “Dallas. The Blues Brothers make their first appearance on “Saturday Night Live.”
From the book BOOMERS How We Changed The World by Richard A. Jordan
A great book that would be a great gift for the baby boomer in your life. A real cool book.
Brenda Lee, Elvis Presley & Willie Nelson — Always On My Mind
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In the early 1990s, baby boomers flocked to a sometimes issue-oriented version of country rock, further fueling the record industry upswing. During the first four years of the decade, more than twenty-one million Americans, mostly baby boomers, became country music fans. By 1994, many of the nearly half of all Americans who listened to country music fit the baby-boom profile: 42 percent owned a house, 40 percent had a college education, and 36 percent lived in households with incomes of more than $60,000 a year. ” By their sheer demographic weight, the nation’s seventy-six million baby boomers continue to determine America’s musical preferences, ” observed Time in 1992. “and what America currently prefers is country.”
These country boomers caused an upsurge in all formats of country music. In 1985, only sixteen country discs went gold, and nearly thirty sold more than one million copies. In 1992, sales of country discs and tapes reached $660 million, more than a 50 percent increase from the previous year. In 1980, about 1,534 radio stations played country music; twelve years later, more than 2,500 stations catered to country listeners. On television, The Nashville Network (TNN) grew from 7 million viewers at its inception in 1983 to 54.5 million subscribers in 1992, and from 1990 to 1992, the magazine Country America doubled its subscriptions to almost 1 million. To some extent, Bruce Springsteen paved the road to country success. The Boss’s anthemic tales of the working class and the downtrodden popularized a genre that neo-traditionalists in country embraced. Raised on rock-and-roll and country, singers such as Steve Earle, Travis Tritt, Dwight Yoakam, and Clint Black delivered the traditional populist message of country against a backdrop steeped in honky-tonk, country, and rock influences. They produced an energized, hard-hitting country rock with an outlaw image that grabbed the attention of baby boomers.
From the book ROCKIN IN TIME by David P. Szatmary
Eddie Rabbit “Driving My Life Away”
EDDIE RABBIT Diving my Life Away
Texas Tornados, Who Were You Thinking of?
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What kind of song would your story sound like?
Thank God for Country!
Music has always been a part of Lee Greenwood’s life, even while growing up on a farm near Sacramento, Calif. He started playing the piano when he was seven and the saxophone
at age 12. In junior high, he started his first group, called the Moonbeams. By the time he graduated from high school in June 1960, he played most all the instruments in the orchestra and was the drum major for the marching band. Greenwood passed on a track and music scholarship to the College of the Pacific, in addition to a professional baseball career. Those turned out to be great choices after he was discovered in 1979 by Larry McFaden, performing in a show at the Nugget Casino in sparks, Nev. McFaden was the bass player and bandleader for Mel Tillis. He brought the singer to Nashville and got him signed to a recording contract. Greenwood claims a string of hits including “Ring on Her Finger, Time on Her Hands,” “It Turns Me Inside Out,” “Somebody’s Gonna Love You,” “Holdin’ A Good Hand,” “I Don’t Mind the Thorns (If You’re the Rose),” “She’s Lyin” and “Dixie Road.” He has won numerous industry accolades including, the Academy of Country Music’s Male Vocalist of the Year (1985), two Male Vocalist of the Year awards from the Country Music Association (1983, 1984), a Grammy for Top Male Vocal Performance for “I.O.U.” (1985) and the CMA Song of the Year honor as the writer of “God Bless the USA” (1985). “God Bless the USA” has been voted the most recognizable patriotic song in America, and it went far beyond what Greenwood expected when he wrote it in the back of his tour bus in 1983. The song has been in the top five on the country singles charts three times (1991, 2001, 2003),, giving it the distinction of being the only song in any genre of music to achieve that feat. It was also # 1 on the pop charts immediately following 9/11.
Inspirational Songs (Featuring “God Bless The USA”)
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George Jones- Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes?
Country Western Music real good stories real good sounds.
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Country Western Greats Chet Atkins, Jimmy Dean, Roy Clark, Stringbean, Grandpa Jones, Earl Scruggs, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton , George Jones…..
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Country and western really hit the big time in the 1990s with the growth in the popularity of line dancing…..from the book A Century of Dance by Ian Driver
OLD SCHOOL COUNTRY WESTERN SONGS
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COUNTRY MUSIC – GREAT STORIES GREAT MUSIC
Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I do the opposite. I got where I am by coming off the wall.
Clint Eastwood
Nobody rides alone. It’s the code of the West Andy Devine
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CONWAY TWITTY Seasons Of My Heart….Loretta Lynn One’s On The Way,Love Is The Foundation…ROY CLARK Hello Love, The Great Divide..Hank Williams Jr. Angels Are Hard To Find..JIMMY DEAN Big Bad John…..
RANDY TRAVIS “On the Other Hand”
After being re-released by Warner Bros. in 1986 this song became his first number on hit.
Please keep Randy Travis in your prayers.
Gospel Greats
Homecoming with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
BACK IN THE DAY,SCHOOL WAS JUST SCHOOL, OLD WAS JUST OLD AND GOOD WAS JUST GOOD ..BUT OLD SCHOOL NOW MEAN OLDIES BUT GOODIES
Earl Scruggs “The Ballad of Jed Clampett”
Country’s Got Heart
This is country music at its best – all the legendary love songs of the ’70s and ’80s together in one incredible collection 
FREDDY FENDER “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights”
Charley Pride ,Chet Atkins, Ronnie Milsap, Dolly Parton, Jerry Reed, Gary Steward, Kiss an Angel Good Morin’
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