Who says I don't know what's happening in music, just because I choose so many oldies for this blog?
Here is my confession. Recently I was gifted a Blue Tooth Speaker. It is small and hooked up to a Chromebook, a couple years old, which seemed to be loosing volume all the time. I'm sure I'm not going deaf, however, at first - for about six weeks - I was condemned to using ear phones. The films I chose to watch on the small screen were sometimes difficult to hear, even with the volume up high. So this Blue Tooth Speaker - an inexpensive Made-in-China brand too - has made all the difference. The tone is warm and tending towards bass while the sound out of the Chromebook is of a higher pitch. Kind of like vinyl records - for all the snaps, crackles, and pops due to use - the sound which was and is WARM. The sound out of CD's is COLD and the sound out of the Chromebook is also COLD. The Blue Tooth Speaker sound feels relaxing upon my ears. Interestingly, the Chromebook registers the volume as mid-range or less as well when it is louder than the 'in-book' settings. Someone told me that as time goes on the sound out of electronics somehow diminishes. Don't know how well this has just been stated but it's here also in case you think you're going deaf.
So, with the new YouTube logarithms - a controversial change - YouTube is throwing up new suggested videos. It's also prompting me to turn history on. I've never had it turned on and won't. The Chromebook (Google) itself is already keeping track and needs clearing.
Are the suggestions much different? I can't tell, but I don't think so. The problem is the horrible interruptive commercials, and if you're looking at music from the 1950's or 1960's and sometimes the 1970's YouTube will assume that you're interested in pharmaceuticals and miracle cures, that you're ill or diseased. In particular DEAFNESS cures even bring up ALZHEIMERS. Disgusting...
So, many of us love songs that never made it onto Billboard's top 100. Also sales of records OVER TIME can still result in Gold or Platinum records. ....
This morning I got the news that the Billboard #1 hit is from a man named OLIVER ANTHONY, who lives on a small landholding in Virginia with his dogs, has never recorded a record or album, has no agent or people promoting him, no recording contracts, and is basically a SELF MADE MAN IN MUSIC. So I hurried to hear the song that got to number one based on the hits to his YouTube station. Here it is...
